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AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkira Hiwata, Kiyoshi Sawai, Takashi Morimoto, Yoshiyuki Futagami, Tsutomu Tsujimoto
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In a scroll compressor, an outer wall curve of a scroll lap of a fixed scroll and an inner wall curve of a scroll lap of an orbiting scroll are formed of involute curves whose basic circle radius is defined as “a”, an inner wall curve of the scroll lap of the fixed scroll and an outer wall curve of the scroll lap of the orbiting scroll are formed of involute curves whose basic circle radius is defined as “b”, and a value of a/b which is a ratio of the basic circle radius a and the basic circle radius b is set to a value exceeding 1.0 and less than 1.5. With this structure, a compression chamber formed on the side of the inner wall of the scroll lap of the orbiting scroll is compressed faster than a compression chamber formed on the side of the outer wall of the scroll lap of the orbiting scroll, and leakage loss during compression process can be reduced.
A scroll compressor in which a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll whose scroll laps rise from an end plate are meshed with each other to form a compression chamber therebetween, and when said orbiting scroll is turned along a circular orbit while restraining rotation by a rotation-restricting mechanism, said compression chamber moves while changing its volume, thereby carrying out suction, compression and discharge operations, wherein
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