US 6,684,979 B1 · Hermetic motor-driven compressor

Abstract

A hermetic motor-driven compressor is capable of decreasing both the resonance sound due to an oil feed pipe and the resonance sound due to a crankshaft generated when the oil feed pipe is rotated while being dipped in the refrigerating machine oil. Within a hermetically sealed enclosure, a compression component and a motor drive component are supported through an elastic support arrangement, and the compression component comprises a crankshaft adapted to be rotatively driven by the motor drive component through an eccentric portion and provided with a journal, a balance weight disposed at the eccentric portion and a coaxial oil feed pipe disposed in the balance weight so as to revolve coaxially with the journal, so that the stirring of the refrigerating machine oil can be suppressed.

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Dependent claims

A hermetic motor-driven compressor having a compression component and a motor drive component supported through an elastic support arrangement within a hermetically sealed enclosure, wherein the compression component comprises:

a crankshaft having an eccentric portion and adapted to be rotatively driven by the motor drive component;
and
an oil feed pipe disposed at a lower end portion of said eccentric portion of said crankshaft so as to perform a centrifugal pumping action, said oil feed pipe being arranged to open into a refrigerating machine oil portion of the hermetically sealed enclosure so as to open into refrigerating machine oil held in the refrigerating machine oil portion of the hermetically sealed enclosure and so as to be rotated by said crankshaft;
wherein said oil feed pipe is made of synthetic resin;
wherein said oil feed pipe is joined to said lower end portion of said crankshaft through an interposition member made of synthetic resin;
and
wherein said interposition member is a separate and discrete member from said oil feed pipe.

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a crankshaft having a journal portion and an eccentric portion, said eccentric portion being disposed eccentrically relative to said journal portion, said crankshaft being adapted to be rotatively driven by the motor drive component about an axis of said journal portion;
a balance weight disposed at said eccentric portion of said crankshaft;
and
a coaxial oil feed pipe disposed at said balance weight and so as to be coaxial with said axis of said journal portion of said crankshaft so as to perform a pumping action, said coaxial oil feed pipe being arranged to open into a refrigerating machine oil portion of the hermetically sealed enclosure so as to open into refrigerating machine oil held in the refrigerating machine oil portion of the hermetically sealed enclosure and so as to be rotated by said crankshaft;
wherein said compression component is disposed under said motor drive component;
wherein said eccentric portion of said crankshaft is provided at a lower side portion of said crankshaft, an upper side portion of said crankshaft being adapted to be rotatively driven by said motor drive component;
wherein said balance weight is disposed at a lower end portion of said eccentric portion of said crankshaft;
and
wherein said coaxial oil feed pipe is disposed at a lower end portion of said balance weight.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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