Scroll compressor including discharge guide to quicken discharge refrigerant flow movement

A scroll compressor comprising:

• a casing;
• a refrigerant suction pipe and a refrigerant discharge pipe that are connected to the casing;
• a compression part disposed at the casing and configured to receive a rotational force of a motor through a rotating shaft and compress refrigerant in a compression chamber between a non-orbiting scroll and an orbiting scroll;
• and
• a high and low pressure separation plate disposed at a side of the compression part in an axial direction and defining (i) a low-pressure part connected to the refrigerant suction pipe and (ii) a high-pressure part connected to the refrigerant discharge pipe, the high and low pressure separation plate defining a through hole through a central portion of the high and low pressure separation plate, the through hole being configured to guide the refrigerant discharged from the compression part toward the high-pressure part,
• wherein the high-pressure part includes a discharge guide configured to guide the refrigerant discharged from the compression part to the refrigerant discharge pipe,
• wherein the discharge guide extends from at least one of (i) an inner circumferential surface of the casing that defines the high-pressure part or (ii) a side surface of the high and low pressure separation plate that faces the high-pressure part from an opposite side to the inner circumferential surface of the casing that defines the high-pressure part
• wherein the high and low pressure separation plate includes:
• an inclined surface portion extending between a central portion of the high and low pressure separation plate and a rim of the high and low pressure separation plate and being downwardly inclined towards the low-pressure part from the central portion to the rim;
• and
• a first protrusion protruding from a middle of the inclined surface portion in a circumferential direction and extending in a radial direction, and
• wherein the discharge guide is disposed between the first protrusion and the through hole.