Scroll compressor including grooved discharge and bypass valve arrangement
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSuchul Kim, Sanghyeon Ji
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Abstract
A scroll compressor is provided, in which a fastening member fixing portion of a valve fastening member fixes the valve fastening member to a non-orbiting scroll, a valve fixing portion of the valve fastening member fixes a bypass valve to the non-orbiting scroll, and the fastening member fixing portion is located axially farther away from a compression chamber than the valve fixing portion is. This may secure a fastening thickness by which the valve fastening member that fixes the bypass valve is fastened to the non-orbiting scroll and reduce a plate thickness at a portion where bypass holes and/or a discharge port are formed, thereby decreasing dead volumes in the bypass holes and/or the discharge port.
Claims16
A scroll compressor, comprising:
- a casing;
- an orbiting scroll coupled to a rotary shaft in an inner space of the casing to perform an orbiting motion;
- a non-orbiting scroll engaged with the orbiting scroll to define compression chambers, and provided with a discharge port and bypass holes through which refrigerant in the compression chambers is discharged;
- and
- a discharge valve that opens and closes the discharge port;
- bypass valves that open and close the bypass holes;
- and
- valve fastening members that fix the bypass valves to the non-orbiting scroll, wherein each of the valve fastening members includes a fastening member fixing portion where the valve fastening member is fixed to the non-orbiting scroll, and a valve fixing portion where the bypass valve is fixed to the non-orbiting scroll, wherein the fastening member fixing portion is located farther away from the compression chambers in an axial direction than the valve fixing portion, wherein a valve fixing groove in which a fixing portion of at least one of the bypass valves is fixedly inserted and a valve opening/closing groove in which an opening/closing portion of at least one of the bypass valves is accommodated are formed in a rear surface of the non-orbiting scroll, and wherein the valve fixing groove includes a fastening member fixing surface provided on an inner circumferential surface thereof so as to fix the valve fastening member, and a valve support surface provided on an axial side surface of the valve fixing groove at a position more adjacent to the compression chambers than the fastening member fixing surface so as to axially support the fixing portion of at least one of the bypass valves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.