Patent Application
20170051739
The present invention relates to a rotary compressor that is used for air conditioning machines, freezer machines, and the like.
As illustrated in
In an abutment portion (roller and vane sliding region) between the vane leading end and the roller, under a condition where a pressure ratio between the low-pressure side and the high-pressure side of refrigerant gas is high, for example, at the time of heating when the outside air temperature is low, a gas temperature at the high-pressure side of the refrigerant gas is increased and a gas flow rate is decreased. For this reason, the temperature of the vane leading end becomes high and it is therefore difficult to form an oil film. In particular, with an R32 refrigerant having a lower gas density and a higher discharge temperature than those of an R410A refrigerant, the temperature of the sliding surfaces of the vane and the roller becomes much higher than that with the R410A refrigerant. This high temperature causes a problem in that the abnormal abrasion between the vane and the roller occurs, preventing reliability from being ensured.
As a rotary compressor for solving the above-mentioned problem, conventionally disclosed is a rotary compressor including a cylinder that has a suction port and a discharge port, a rotating axis that has a crank portion arranged on a cylinder axis line, a roller that is arranged between the crank portion and the cylinder and eccentrically rotates, and a vane that reciprocates in a groove provided in the cylinder and makes contact with the outer circumferential surface of the roller. In this rotary compressor, in a case where a position at which the vane starts reciprocating relative to the roller is set to a reference of the rotation angle of the roller, a contact surface of the vane with the roller has a curvature of equal to or smaller than a curvature of the roller when the roller is located at a rotation angle of close to 90° or close 270° or both of them (for example, refer to Patent Document 1).
Patent Document 1: Japanese Laid-open Patent Publication No. 07-229488
The conventional technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 however has a problem in that production management is complicated because a plurality of surfaces having different curvatures form a vane leading end surface. Furthermore, a connecting portion between the surface of the vane leading end surface that has a curvature radius R and the surface thereof that has a curvature of equal to or smaller than the curvature of the roller needs to have a curvature radius smaller than the curvature radius R of the vane leading end surface. A hertz stress of the connection portion is therefore increased and abnormal abrasion can occur on the outer circumferential portion of the roller.
The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances and an object of the present invention is to provide a rotary compressor in which a vane leading end surface has a simple shape without being formed by a plurality of surfaces having different curvatures and the vane and a roller (annular piston) have high durability.
To solve the above mentioned problem and attain the purpose, the present invention is characterized in that a rotary compressor includes: a vertically placed and sealed compressor housing including a discharge portion of a refrigerant on an upper portion and a suction portion of the refrigerant on a lower side surface; a compression unit arranged on a lower portion of the compressor housing and including an annular cylinder, an end plate that has a bearing portion and a discharge valve portion and closes one end portion of the cylinder, an end plate or an intermediate partition plate that has a bearing portion and closes the other end portion of the cylinder, an annular piston that is fitted into an eccentric portion of a rotating axis supported on the bearing portion, revolves in the cylinder along a cylinder inner wall of the cylinder, and forms an operation chamber between the annular piston and the cylinder inner wall, and a vane that projects into the operation chamber from a vane groove provided in the cylinder, abuts against the annular piston, and divides the operation chamber into a suction chamber and a compression chamber; and a motor that is arranged on an upper portion of the compressor housing and drives the compression unit through the rotating axis, the rotary compressor sucking the refrigerant through the suction portion and discharging the refrigerant after passing through the compressor housing from the discharge portion, wherein when it is assumed that a vane width is W, the amount of eccentricity of the eccentric portion is e, a vane leading end curvature radius is Rv, an annular piston radius is Rro, and a non-sliding region width on each of both side portions of a vane leading end is Wt, the vane width W and the vane leading end curvature radius Rv are set such that the non-sliding region width Wt on each of both the side portions of the vane leading end defined by the following equation (A) is a value satisfying an equation (B):
W
t=(W/2)−e×Rv/(Rv+Rro) (A)
0.3 mm≦Wt≦0.6 mm (B).
The present invention provides an advantageous effect in which a rotary compressor including a highly durable vane and roller (annular piston) is provided that does not need an increase in the width of the vane or a decrease in the amount of eccentricity of the roller.
Hereinafter, an embodiment of a rotary compressor according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that the embodiment does not limit the present invention.
As illustrated in
A stator 111 of the motor 11 is formed into a cylindrical shape and is shrink-fitted and fixed to the inner circumferential surface of the compressor housing 10. A rotor 112 of the motor 11 is arranged in the cylindrical stator 111 and is shrink-fitted and fixed to the rotating axis 15 mechanically connecting the motor 11 and the compression unit 12.
The compression unit 12 includes a first compression unit 12S, and a second compression unit 12T arranged in parallel with the first compression unit 12S and placed above the first compression unit 12S. As illustrated in
As illustrated in
The first and the second cylinders 121S and 121T include the first and the second vane grooves 128S and 128T formed from the first and the second cylinder inner walls 123S and 123T in the radial direction over entire height regions of the cylinders, respectively. First and second vanes 127S and 127T each formed into a flat plate shape are fitted into the first and the second vane grooves 128S and 128T in a slidable manner, respectively.
As illustrated in
When the rotary compressor 1 is activated, the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T project into the first and the second operation chambers 130S and 130T from the first and the second vane grooves 128S and 128T with repulsion of the first and the second vane springs, respectively. With the projection, the leading ends of the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T abut against the outer circumferential surfaces of the first and the second annular pistons 125S and 125T, respectively. Thus, the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T divide the first and the second operation chambers 130S and 130T into first and second suction chambers 131S and 131T and first and second compression chambers 133S and 133T, respectively.
Furthermore, the first and the second cylinders 121S and 121T include first and second pressure introduction paths 129S and 129T communicating the deep portions of the first and the second vane grooves 128S and 128T and an inner portion of the compressor housing 10 through openings R illustrated in
The first and the second cylinders 121S and 121T have the first and the second suction holes 135S and 135T communicating the first and the second suction chambers 131S and 131T with the outside in order to suck the refrigerant into the first and the second suction chambers 131S and 131T from the outside, respectively.
As illustrated in
A sub bearing portion 161S is formed on the lower end plate 160S and a sub axis portion 151 of the rotating axis 15 is supported on the sub bearing portion 161S in a rotatable manner. A main bearing portion 161T is formed on the upper end plate 160T and a main axis portion 153 of the rotating axis 15 is supported on the main bearing portion 161T in a rotatable manner.
The rotating axis 15 includes a first eccentric portion 152S and a second eccentric portion 152T that are made eccentric to each other while shifting phases thereof by 180°. The first eccentric portion 152S is fitted into the first annular piston 125S of the first compression unit 12S in a rotatable manner and the second eccentric portion 152T is fitted into the second annular piston 125T of the second compression unit 12T in a rotatable manner.
The rotation of the rotating axis 15 causes the first and the second annular pistons 125S and 125T to revolve in the clockwise direction in
As illustrated in
The lower muffler chamber 180S is one chamber formed in an annular form and is a part of a communication path communicating the discharge side of the first compression unit 12S into an upper muffler chamber 180T through refrigerant passages 136 (refer to
As illustrated in
The first cylinder 121S, the lower end plate 160S, the lower muffler cover 170S, the second cylinder 121T, the upper end plate 160T, the upper muffler cover 170T, and the intermediate partition plate 140 are integrally fastened by a plurality of insertion bolts 175 and the like. In the compression unit 12 integrally fastened by the insertion bolts 175 and the like, the outer circumferential portion of the upper end plate 160T is firmly fixed to the compressor housing 10 by spot welding and the compression unit 12 is thereby fixed to the compressor housing 10.
First and second through-holes 101 and 102 are provided in the outer circumferential wall of the cylindrical compressor housing 10 in this order from the lower side so as to be separated from each other in the axis direction. First and second suction pipes 104 and 105 are inserted through the first and the second through-holes 101 and 102, respectively. An accumulator holder 252 and an accumulator band 253 hold an accumulator 25 formed by an independent cylindrical sealed container at the outside of the compressor housing 10.
A system connection pipe 255 that is connected to an evaporator of a refrigerant circuit is connected to the center of a top portion of the accumulator 25. First and second low-pressure communication pipes 31S and 31T one ends of which extend to an upper portion in the accumulator 25 and the other ends of which extend to the other ends of the first and the second suction pipes 104 and 105 are connected to bottom through-holes 257 provided in a bottom portion of the accumulator 25.
The first and the second low-pressure communication pipes 31S and 31T for introducing the low-pressure refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit to the first and the second compression units 12S and 12T through the accumulator 25 are connected to the first and the second suction holes 135S and 135T (refer to
A discharge pipe 107 as a discharge portion that is connected to the refrigerant circuit and discharges high-pressure refrigerant gas to the condenser side of the refrigerant circuit is connected to a top portion of the compressor housing 10. That is to say, the first and the second discharge holes 190S and 190T are connected to the condenser of the refrigerant circuit.
Lubricant oil is enclosed to approximately the height of the second cylinder 121T in the compressor housing 10. The lubricant oil is sucked from an oil supply pipe 16 mounted on a lower end portion of the rotating axis 15 with a pump blade (not illustrated) that is inserted into a lower portion of the rotating axis 15. The lubricant oil circulates in the compression unit 12, lubricates sliding components, and seals fine gaps in the compression unit 12.
The characteristic configuration of the rotary compressor 1 according to the embodiment will be described with reference to
where σmax is the maximum contact stress, a is a contact width, P is the vane pressing force, Rv is a vane leading end curvature radius, Rro is an annular piston radius, Ev is a vane elastic modulus, Ero is an annular piston elastic modulus, νv is a vane Poisson's ratio, and νro is an annular piston Poisson's ratio.
A non-sliding region width Wt on each of both side portions of the leading ends of the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T is expressed by the following equation (A) (refer to dimensional relation of a similar triangle in
W
t=(W/2)−e×Rv/(Rv+Rro) (A)
where Wt is the non-sliding region width on each of both the side portions of the leading end of the vane, W is the vane width, and e is the amount of eccentricity of the eccentric portion.
Under an oppressive operation condition of the rotary compressor 1 (such as an operation condition where a pressure ratio between the low-pressure side and the high-pressure side of the refrigerant gas is high, and a gas temperature at the high-pressure side is increased and a gas flow rate is decreased, for example, at the time of heating when the outside air temperature is low), an increase in the contact stress between the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T and the first and the second annular pistons 125S and 125T causes abnormal abrasion between the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T and the first and the second annular pistons 125S and 125T. For avoiding this, the maximum contact stress σmax, which is expressed by the equation (2), needs to be decreased as low as possible.
In order to decrease the maximum contact stress σmax, it is effective that the vane width W of the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T is decreased and the vane pressing force P with the back pressure of the refrigerant gas in the compressor housing 10 is decreased (refer to equation (2)). Furthermore, an increase in the vane leading end curvature radius Rv can increase the contact width a (the contact width a is the contact width in the circumferential direction with elastic deformation at each tangent point between the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T and the first and the second annular pistons 125S and 125T, and is observed only as a contact point in
When the vane leading end curvature radius Rv is excessively increased, the non-sliding region width Wt on each of both the side portions of the leading ends of the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T, which is expressed by the equation (A), is 0 and the vane ridge line portions illustrated in
In order to prevent the non-sliding region width Wt from being 0 and prevent the vane ridge line portions from hitting the outer circumferential surfaces of the first and the second annular pistons 125S and 125T even with production tolerance of the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T, production tolerance of the first and the second vane grooves 128S and 128T, deflection of the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T, and the like, the vane width W and the vane leading end curvature radius Rv are set such that the non-sliding region width Wt on each of both the side portions of the leading ends of the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T that is defined by the equation (A) is a value satisfying the following equation (B):
0.3 mm≦Wt≦0.6 mm (B).
By setting the non-sliding region width Wt to a value satisfying the equation (B) (the non-sliding region width Wt is smaller than a conventional value described in the background by equal to or more than 10%), the vane width W is smaller than the conventional width and the vane pressing force P with the back pressure is decreased by 20%, thereby decreasing the maximum contact stress σmax.
By setting the non-sliding region width Wt on each of both the side portions of the leading ends of the first and the second vanes 127S and 127T that is defined by the equation (A) to a value satisfying the equation (B), the vane width W and the vane leading end curvature radius Rv appropriate for improving reliability of the rotary compressor 1 can be provided. The rotary compressor 1 can thereby be used under the oppressive operation condition where the discharge temperature of the refrigerant gas is high.
The rotary compressor according to the present invention is particularly effective when an R32 refrigerant having a lower gas density and a higher discharge temperature than those of an R410A refrigerant or a mixed refrigerant containing the R32 refrigerant of at least equal to or higher than 25% by weight is used.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-039064 | Feb 2014 | JP | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/JP2015/052976 | 2/3/2015 | WO | 00 |
