A scroll compressor according to the present invention includes a casing, an orbiting member provided within the casing and performing an orbiting motion, a non-orbiting member forming a compression chamber together with the orbiting member, the compression chamber having a suction chamber, an intermediate pressure chamber and a discharge chamber, a communication passage communicating inside and outside of the compression chamber with each other, an opening/closing valve assembly provided outside the non-orbiting member within the casing and opening and closing the communication passage, and a switching valve assembly provided within the casing and operating the opening/closing valve assembly, whereby a facilitated fabrication, improved valve responsiveness and a relaxed restriction for a specification of a valve can be achieved, and also an over-compression can be prevented by an installation of a check valve, and an assembling efficiency can be improved by installing two valve assemblies outside the non-orbiting member.

The invention relates to a method used to control a scroll compressor having a first and a second spiral, in particular that are arranged one inside the other. The first spiral can be moved by a motor relative to the second spiral for a decompression or compression operation of the scroll compressor. The invention reduces vibration (actual acceleration forces) in the scroll compressor to allow for a longer service life by adapting a torque curve of the motor on the basis of measured acceleration forces on the scroll compressor which, in turn, is based on the position and/or positional angle of the first spiral relative to the second spiral such that the acceleration forces are reduced below a threshold or minimized.

A compressor includes a drive shaft having a main shaft and an eccentric portion, and a compression mechanism having a fitted tubular portion into which a fitted shaft portion of the drive shaft is slidably fitted. The fitted shaft portion has first and second sliding surfaces formed as portions of an outer peripheral surface in the circumferential direction. The second sliding surface has a smaller axial width than the first sliding surface. A gap is adjacent to the second sliding surface into which a lubricating oil flows. An oil retainer is configured as a boundary portion between the first sliding surface and the gap to keep the lubricating oil in the gap from flowing out toward an end surface of the fitted shaft portion. The boundary portion has a central portion that protrudes further toward the first sliding surface than an end of the boundary portion in a lubricating oil flow-out direction.

A two-stage screw compressor and an air conditioning system. The two-stage screw compressor includes: a housing with an intake port and an exhaust port provided thereon; a low-pressure stage screw set axially arranged in the housing and connected to the intake port; a high-pressure stage screw set axially arranged in the housing and connected to the exhaust port; a drive motor axially arranged in the housing; and a transmission gear set for simultaneously transmitting a torque provided by the drive motor to the low-pressure stage screw set and the high-pressure stage screw set; wherein, the drive motor, the low-pressure stage screw set and the high-pressure stage screw set are axially arranged on the same side of the transmission gear set.

A rotor has at its two axis end portions an upper large-diameter inner circumferential portion and a lower large-diameter inner circumferential portion that have inner diameters larger than the inner diameter of the axially middle portion of the rotor and are offset in the radial direction. A crankshaft has a passageway, which is formed in the crankshaft and allows refrigerant to flow therethrough, and a gas venting hole, which provides communication between the passageway and at least one discharge opening formed in the outer circumferential surface of the crankshaft. The at least one discharge opening is formed at a position facing the inner circumferential surface of the lower large-diameter inner circumferential portion 5b on the compression unit side.

A discharge chamber, into which refrigerant compressed by a compression mechanism, is discharged, is formed in an inside of a housing. A resonator is connected to an intermediate portion of a communication passage, which communicates between the discharge chamber and a discharge port of the housing. The resonator includes a resonance chamber and an inlet passage. The inlet passage has one end portion, which is connected to the intermediate portion of the communication passage, and another end portion, which is connected to the resonance chamber.

A crankshaft for a rotary compressor includes: a body (1) and an eccentric portion (2), the eccentric portion (2) being fitted over the body (1), wherein at least one of a flexible structure (21) and an oil pressure surface (22) is arranged on the eccentric portion (2). The flexible structure (21) is configured to deform inwards when subject to an external force in an inward direction. The oil pressure surface (22) is configured in such a way that in a direction opposite to a rotating direction of a rotating central axis of a crankshaft (300), a distance between a front end (221) of the oil pressure surface (22) and the central axis of the eccentric portion (2) is smaller than a distance between a tail end (222) of the oil pressure surface (22) and the central axis of the eccentric portion (2). Also disclosed are a rotary compressor and a refrigerating cycle device. The crankshaft can effectively solve the problem that a rotary compressor gets stuck due to abnormal contact between a piston and an air cylinder, and a high-pressure oil wedge can be formed at a tail portion of an oil cavity, thereby increasing an inlet oil pressure, and improving the environment of lubrication between an eccentric portion and a piston.

A scroll type air compressor provided by the invention utilizes an L-shape mounting frame for respectively mounting a compressor and a generator to a first mounting section and a second mounting section thereon. The generator is mounted to the second mounting section via a plate and is capable of being fine-tuned in displacement with respect to the plate, such that a second end surface of a second drive pulley of the generator can be made coplanar with a first end surface of a first drive pulley of the compressor. The position of the plate can also be adjusted up and down with respect to the second mounting section to a required position so that the distance between the drive pulleys of the generator and the compressor can be adjusted and the tension of a transmission belt can be determined.

A scroll pump has a tip seal between an axial end of the scroll blade of one of stationary and orbiting plate scrolls of the pump and the plate of the other of the stationary plate and orbiting plate scrolls. The scroll pump may have a ballast gas supply system and use the operation of the ballast gas supply system to assess the condition of the tip seal. Alternatively, the scroll pump may have two pressure sensors that sense pressure at two locations spaced along a compression mechanism of the pump to assess the condition of the tip seal.

A system for use in a scroll compressor is described. The system comprises a crankshaft with a first end portion, wherein the crankshaft defines an axis of rotation, and slider block having a recess, wherein the first end portion of the crankshaft and the recess in the slider block are configured for connecting the slider block to the first end portion. The first end portion of the crankshaft comprises a first flat contact surface portion and the recess of the slider block comprises a second flat contact surface portion, the first and second contact surface portions facing each other when the first end portion is connected to the slider block. The system is characterized in that at least one of the flat contact surface portions comprises a slit beneath the at least one flat contact surface portion. Further, a corresponding slider block and a corresponding crankshaft are described.