Fluid compressor with spiral blade
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHirotsugu Sakata, Tsugio Itami, Masayuki Okuda, Takuya Hirayama, Satoru Oikawa
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Abstract
Disclosed is a fluid compressor which comprises a closed case having an inlet for a fluid at one end thereof and an outlet for a fluid at the other, a cylinder fixed in the case, and a rotary member which orbits in and relatively to the cylinder, wherein the rotary member has a compression unit for compressing a fluid supplied into the closed case from the inlet thereof on the orbit movement of the rotary member, then discharging it outside from the outlet of the closed case.
Claims5
A fluid compressor having a spiral blade, comprising:
- a closed case having inlet and outlet ends;
- a cylinder fixed within the closed case;
- a main shaft having a central axis and passing through the cylinder;
- an eccentric shaft disposed around the main shaft;
- a rotary member having a spiral groove formed in its outer surface, and being fit around the eccentric shaft, the rotary member orbiting relative to the cylinder about an axis which is different from the central axis while partly contacting the inner surface of the cylinder;
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- means for preventing rotation of the rotary member thereby allowing it to orbit;
- wherein the spiral blade is movably disposed in the spiral groove and has an outer surface for contacting the inner surface of the cylinder, thereby dividing a space defined between the inner surface of the cylinder and the outer surface of the rotary member into a plurality of operation chambers.
A fluid compressor having a spiral blade, comprising:
- (a) a closed case having an inlet for a fluid at one end thereof and an outlet for a fluid at the other end thereof;
- (b) a cylinder having a central axis and being fixed in the closed case;
- (c) a rotary member which orbits within and relative to the fixed cylinder;
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- (d) means for preventing rotation of the rotary member thereby allowing it to orbit;
- wherein the rotary member includes compression means for compressing a fluid supplied into the closed case from the inlet thereof during an orbit movement of the rotary member relative to the cylinder, and for discharging the fluid outside of the closed case via the outlet of the closed case, the compression means including a spiral groove which is formed in the outer surface of the rotary member and has a pitch being gradually narrower toward the outlet of the closed case from the inlet thereof;
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- a spiral blade which is movably fitted in the groove and has an outer surface for contacting with the inner surface of the cylinder so as to divide the space defined between the inner surface of the cylinder and the outer surface of the rotary member into a plurality of operation chambers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.