The present disclosure relates to a compressor.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 05-133377 discloses a compressor in which a space (shell space), into which a fluid compressed in a compression element is discharged, is formed by a front head (upper frame body) and a muffler cover (muffler). In the compressor of Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 05-133377, the position of a fluid discharge port formed in the muffler cover is adjusted to cancel the pressure pulsation of the fluid discharged from the compression element so that the vibration and noise of the casing caused by the pressure pulsation are reduced.
A compressor includes a compression mechanism. The compression mechanism includes a front head including a boss portion and a muffler cover attached to the front head. The front head includes a first contact surface that is part of a conical side surface on an outer peripheral surface of the boss portion. The muffler cover includes a first surface having a circular first opening formed therein, into which the boss portion is inserted. A first end portion of the first surface forming the first opening is in contact with the first contact surface in a state where the muffler cover is attached to the front head.
The up and down directions used in the description below are the directions indicated by arrows in
The drive mechanism 20 drives the compression mechanism 30. The drive mechanism 20 is housed above the compression mechanism 30 inside the casing 11. The drive mechanism 20 includes a motor 21 as a drive source and a shaft 22 as a drive shaft attached to the motor 21. The motor 21 and the shaft 22 are provided such that their axial centers coincide with an axis O.
The motor 21 primarily includes a rotor 23 and a stator 24. The rotor 23 has a columnar shape. The shaft 22 is fixed to the rotor 23 such that their axial centers coincide with each other. The rotor 23 includes laminated electromagnetic steel plates and a magnet embedded in a rotor body. The stator 24 has a cylindrical shape and is fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the casing 11. The rotor 23 is provided on a radially inner side of the stator 24 via a space (air gap) having a predetermined width. The stator 24 is formed by using laminated electromagnetic steel plates and a coil wound around a stator body. The rotor 23 rotates together with the shaft 22 by an electromagnetic force generated in the stator 24 when a current flows through the coil.
The shaft 22 transmits the rotation of the motor 21 to the compression mechanism 30. The shaft 22 includes a crankpin 22a that is provided below the rotor 23 and is eccentric from the axial center. The crankpin 22a is inserted into a piston 31, described below, of the compression mechanism 30 in a state where the rotational force from the rotor 23 is transmittable. When the shaft 22 rotates, the crankpin 22a eccentrically rotates around the axial center and causes the piston 31 of the compression mechanism 30 to revolve around the axial center. As a result, the driving force of the motor 21 is transmitted to the compression mechanism 30 via the shaft 22.
The compression mechanism 30 suctions and compresses the refrigerant via the suction pipe 96. The compression mechanism 30 is housed below the drive mechanism 20 inside the casing 11. The compression mechanism 30 is a rotary compression mechanism and primarily includes a front head 40, a cylinder 50, the piston 31, a rear head 60, and a muffler cover 70. The refrigerant compressed by the compression mechanism 30 is discharged from a discharge hole (not illustrated) to a space between the motor 21 and the compression mechanism 30 through a muffler space S2 described below.
The cylinder 50 forms a compression chamber 51, which compresses the refrigerant, together with the piston 31 housed inside. The cylinder 50 is a plate-shaped member that has a predetermined width and is provided to be perpendicular to the vertical direction. The cylinder 50 includes a suction passage 51 and a cylinder chamber 52.
The cylinder chamber 52 is formed by closing a through-hole, which is formed in the vertical direction of the cylinder 50 and has a substantially circular shape in a plan view, with the rear head 60 from below and the front head 40 from above.
The suction passage 51 is a refrigerant channel that communicates between the cylinder chamber 52 and the outside of the cylinder 50. One end of the suction passage 51 is opened to the cylinder chamber 52, and the other end of the suction passage 51 is opened to an outer surface of the cylinder chamber 52. A distal end portion of the suction pipe 96 is inserted into the other end of the suction passage 51. The cylinder chamber 52 accommodates the piston 31.
The piston 31 is a plate member that is circular in a plan view and is accommodated in the cylinder chamber 52. The piston 31 is integrally mounted on the crankpin 22a of the shaft 22. When the shaft 22 rotates, the piston 31 revolves around the axis O with part of the outer peripheral surface in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder 50 forming the cylinder chamber 52 as viewed from above.
The front head 40 includes a front head disk portion 41 that closes an upper surface of the cylinder 50 and a front head boss portion 42 that extends upward from a peripheral edge of an opening formed in the center of the front head disk portion 41. The front head 40 is fixed to the casing 11.
The front head disk portion 41 is provided with a discharge hole (not illustrated). The refrigerant compressed in the compression chamber S1 whose volume changes in the cylinder chamber 52 of the cylinder 50 is discharged through the discharge hole. The front head disk portion 41 is provided with a discharge valve (not illustrated) that opens and closes an outlet of the discharge hole. When the pressure in the compression chamber S1 become higher than the pressure in the muffler space S2, because of the pressure gap, the discharge valve opens to allow the refrigerant to be discharged into the muffler space S2 through the discharge hole.
The front head boss portion 42 has a cylindrical shape. The front head boss portion 42 has the shaft 22 inserted into the inner periphery thereof and functions as a bearing of the shaft 22. The front head boss portion 42 is formed such that an axial center 42o coincides with the axis O.
The front head 40 includes a first contact surface 42a that is part of a conical side surface on the outer peripheral surface of the front head boss portion 42. According to the present embodiment, the first contact surface 42a forms a side surface of a truncated cone whose diameter increases from top to bottom. In the plane including the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42, an angle a1 formed between the axial center 42o and the first contact surface 42a is preferably more than 0° and less than 45°.
The rear head 60 includes a rear head disk portion 61 that closes a lower surface of the cylinder 50 and a rear head boss portion 62 that extends downward from a peripheral edge portion of an opening formed in the center of the rear head disk portion 61.
The rear head boss portion 62 has a cylindrical shape. The rear head boss portion 62 has the shaft 22 inserted into the inner periphery thereof and functions as a bearing of the shaft 22.
The muffler cover 70 is a member that forms the muffler space S2 to reduce vibration and noise caused by pressure pulsation of the refrigerant discharged from the compression mechanism 30.
The upper surface 71 is provided with a first muffler opening 71a and two second muffler openings 71b. The muffler cover 70 is formed of, but not limited thereto, a metal plate having a plate thickness t of approximately 1 mm. The upper surface 71 is an example of a first surface.
The first muffler opening 71a is a circular opening formed to cause the front head boss portion 42 to penetrate therethrough. The first muffler opening 71a is formed such that a first end portion 71e of the upper surface 71 forming the first muffler opening 71a is in contact with the first contact surface 42a in a state where the muffler cover 70 is attached to the front head 40. According to the present embodiment, as illustrated in
The second muffler opening 71b is a circular opening formed to cause the refrigerant to flow from the muffler space S2 into the space between the motor 21 and the compression mechanism 30. When viewed in the extending direction of the front head boss portion 42, the two muffler openings 70b are formed on the circumference of a predetermined radius around the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42 in positions at intervals of 180° with the axial center 42o as an axis (see
The muffler cover 70 is attached to the front head disk portion 41 in a state where the front head boss portion 42 is inserted into the first muffler opening 71a. The muffler cover 70 forms the muffler space S2 together with the upper surface of the front head disk portion 41 and the outer peripheral surface of the front head boss portion 42. As described above, when the muffler cover 70 is attached to the upper surface of the front head disk portion 41, the first end portion 71e of the upper surface 71 is in contact with the first contact surface 42a.
When the rotor 23 rotates, the eccentric rotation of the crankpin 22a causes the piston 31 of the compression mechanism 30 to revolve inside the cylinder chamber 52, which changes the volume of the compression chamber S1. As a result, the refrigerant is suctioned into the compression chamber S1 through the suction passage 51. The suctioned refrigerant is compressed by the piston 31 and flows out to the muffler space S2 through the discharge hole. The refrigerant having flowed out to the muffler space S2 is discharged into the space between the motor 21 and the compression mechanism 30 through the two second muffler openings 71b of the muffler cover 70. The refrigerant discharged to the outside of the muffler space S2 passes through the air gap between the rotor 23 and the stator 24 of the motor 21 and is discharged from the discharge pipe 25.
Furthermore, in the compressor 10, when viewed in the extending direction of the front head boss portion 42, the two second muffler openings 71b are formed on the circumference of a predetermined radius around the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42 in positions at intervals of 180° with the axial center 42o as an axis, and therefore the refrigerant discharged from the second muffler openings 71b serves as a symmetric sound source. As a result, the occurrence of standing waves caused by pressure pulsation of the refrigerant flowing out of the compression mechanism 30 is suppressed, and the occurrence of vibration and noise caused by the standing waves is suppressed.
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The compressor 10 includes the compression mechanism 30. The compression mechanism 30 includes the front head 40 including the front head boss portion 42 and the muffler cover 70 attached to the front head 40. The front head 40 includes the first contact surface 42a that is part of the conical side surface on the outer peripheral surface of the front head boss portion 42. The muffler cover 70 includes the upper surface 71 having the circular first muffler opening 71a formed therein, into which the front head boss portion 42 is inserted. The first end portion 71e of the first surface 71 forming the first muffler opening 71a is in contact with the first contact surface 42a in a state where the muffler cover 70 is attached to the front head 40.
In the compressor 10, the front head boss portion 42 is inserted from under the first muffler opening 71a so that the first contact surface 42a and the first end portion 71e may be in line contact with each other. Accordingly, the gap between the front head boss portion 42 and the first muffler opening 71a is sealed by the first contact surface 42a and the lower end of the first end portion 71e so that the refrigerant is prevented from flowing out through the gap between the front head boss portion 42 and the first muffler opening 71a. As a result, the compressor 10 suppresses the occurrence of vibration and noise caused by pressure pulsation of the compressed refrigerant flowing out from the compression mechanism 30.
The compressor according to the related art disclosed in PTL 1 is designed to reduce the gap (clearance) between the front head boss portion and the boss portion of the muffler cover with the intention of preventing the refrigerant from flowing out through the gap between both members. However, the reduced gap causes a problem of a reduction in assemblability. On the other hand, in the compressor 10, as the first contact surface 42a, which is part of the conical side surface, and the first end portion 71e are in contact with each other, the sealing property may be ensured without designing the small clearance between the outer diameter of the front head boss portion 42 and the inner diameter of the first muffler opening 71a. Therefore, the compressor 10 suppresses the occurrence of vibration and noise caused by pressure pulsation of the compressed refrigerant without causing deterioration in assemblability.
In addition, the compressor 10 suppresses the clearance formed between the first contact surface 42a of the front head boss portion 42 and the first muffler opening 71a, and thus the muffler cover 70 may be positioned in the horizontal direction more easily than in the related art.
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The muffler cover 70 is provided with the two second muffler openings 71b through which the refrigerant compressed by the compression mechanism 30 passes. When viewed in the extending direction of the front head boss portion 42, the two second muffler openings 71b are formed on the circumference of a predetermined radius around the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42 in positions at intervals of 180° with the axial center 42o as an axis.
Thus, the refrigerant discharged from the second muffler openings 71b serves as a symmetric sound source, and the occurrence of vibration and noise caused by pressure pulsation of the compressed refrigerant is effectively suppressed.
In the compressor 10 according to the second embodiment, the upper surface 71 of the muffler cover 70 includes a second contact surface 71c that is part of the conical side surface formed around the first muffler opening 71a.
According to the present embodiment, the second contact surface 71c forms the side surface of the truncated cone whose diameter increases from top to bottom. The second contact surface 71c is formed to be in contact (surface contact) with the first contact surface 42a of the front head 40 in a state where the front head boss portion 42 is inserted from under the first muffler opening 71a and the muffler cover 70 is attached to the upper surface of the front head 40. In the same manner as the first embodiment, the first end portion 71e is also in contact with the first contact surface 42a in a state where the muffler cover 70 is attached to the upper surface of the front head 40.
The second contact surface 71c is preferably formed such that an angle a2 formed with the axial center 42o is larger than the angle a1 in the plane including the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42. In other words, the angle a1 is preferably smaller than the angle a2. Further, a width W of the second contact surface 71c is preferably larger than the plate thickness t of the muffler cover 70.
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In the compressor 10 according to the second embodiment, the upper surface 71 includes the second contact surface 71c that is part of the conical side surface formed around the first muffler opening 71a. The second contact surface 71c is in contact with the first contact surface 42a in a state where the muffler cover 70 is attached to the front head 40.
In the compressor 10 according to the second embodiment, as both the first contact surface 42a and the second contact surface 71c are parts of the conical side surface, the first contact surface 42a and the second contact surface 71c may be in surface contact with each other in addition to the first end portion 71e when the front head boss portion 42 is inserted from under the first muffler opening 71a. Thus, the gap between the front head boss portion 42 and the first muffler opening 71a is sealed by the first contact surface 42a and the second contact surface 71c so that the refrigerant is prevented from flowing out through the gap between the front head boss portion 42 and the first muffler opening 71a. As a result, the compressor 10 according to the second embodiment effectively suppresses the occurrence of vibration and noise caused by pressure pulsation of the compressed refrigerant flowing out from the compression mechanism 30.
Furthermore, as the first contact surface 42a and the second contact surface 71c are in surface contact with each other, the elastic deformation of the second contact surface 71c may ensure the sealing property even when there is some variation in the dimension of the first contact surface 42a or the second contact surface 71c.
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In the plane including the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42, the angle a1 formed between the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42 and the first contact surface 42a is smaller than the angle a2 formed between the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42 and the second contact surface 71c.
Thus, when the front head boss portion 42 is inserted from under the first muffler opening 71a, the vicinity of the first end portion 71e of the second contact surface 71c comes into contact with the first contact surface 42a earlier than the other portions. Therefore, when a downward load is applied to the muffler cover 70, the second contact surface 71c is elastically deformed so that the area below the vicinity of the first end portion 71e may be further brought into surface contact. As a result, the occurrence of vibration and noise caused by pressure pulsation of the compressed refrigerant is effectively suppressed.
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The width w of the second contact surface 71c is larger than the plate thickness t of the muffler cover 70.
Thus, it is possible to elastically deform the second contact surface 71c as appropriate while ensuring the area where the first contact surface 42a and the second contact surface 71c may be in surface contact with each other. Therefore, even when there is some variation in the dimension of the first contact surface 42a or the second contact surface 71c, the elastic deformation of the second contact surface 71c may ensure the sealing property, and the occurrence of vibration and noise caused by pressure pulsation of the compressed refrigerant is effectively suppressed.
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In In the plane including the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42, the angle a1 formed between the axial center 42o of the front head boss portion 42 and the first contact surface 42a is more than 0° and less than 45°.
This prevents a reduction in the volume of the muffler space S2 due to an excessive increase in the outer peripheral diameter of the front head boss portion 42 below the first contact surface 42a, and therefore the occurrence of vibration and noise caused by pressure pulsation of the compressed refrigerant is effectively suppressed.
A model of a compressor according to an example and a model of a compressor according to a comparative example were created to analyze the radiated sound.
A model of the compressor 10 according to the second embodiment illustrated in
The above-described model was used to analyze the radiated sound (Sound Pressure Level [dB]) at a predetermined distance from the surface of the casing 11 when the fluid (refrigerant) was suctioned and discharged at a predetermined speed.
As illustrated in
Although the embodiment of the present disclosure has been described above, it is understood that various modifications may be made to forms and details without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure described in the scope of claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2021-093685 | Jun 2021 | JP | national |
This is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/JP2022/022656 filed on Jun. 3, 2022, which claims priority to Japanese Patent Application No. 2021-093685, filed on Jun. 3, 2021. The entire disclosures of these applications are incorporated by reference herein.
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Parent | PCT/JP2022/022656 | Jun 2022 | US |
Child | 18520046 | US |