A compression unit of a rotary compressor includes a cylinder, an upper end plate that closes the upper side of the cylinder, a lower end plate that closes the lower side of the cylinder, and a piston that is fitted to a rotating shaft, revolves along an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder, and forms a cylinder chamber in the cylinder. At least one of an end face of the piston in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, a sliding surface of the upper end plate that slides with the end face of the piston, and a sliding surface of the lower end plate that slides with the end face of the piston, has formed therein an oil-film retention region having an array of a plurality of recessed portions that retain lubricating oil.

A scroll compressor includes: a rotary shaft; a compression mechanism including an orbiting scroll and a non-orbiting scroll, an extension portion of the orbiting scroll engaging with an eccentric structure of the rotary shaft via a bushing and a driving bearing having an axial height L1; and a counterweight located on the bushing, a mass center of the counterweight being located above an axial lower end of the driving bearing and having an axial distance L2 to the axial center of the driving bearing, and the ratio R of the axial distance L2 to the axial height L1 satisfying: 0.1≤R≤0.4. The scroll compressor can reduce the contact and wear between the bushing and the driving bearing and reduce the requirements for the manufacturing precision and the mounting precision of components such as the counterweight and the bushing, achieving optimized system design.

A scroll compressor including a housing, a motor provided in the housing, a rotary shaft rotated by the motor, an orbiting scroll configured to orbit in conjunction with the rotary shaft, and a fixed scroll configured to define compression chambers together with the orbiting scroll, in which the housing includes a center housing penetrated by the rotary shaft, a front housing configured to define, together with the center housing, a motor accommodation space that accommodates the motor, and a rear housing configured to define a discharge chamber that accommodates a refrigerant discharged from the compression chamber, and an injection valve assembly provided between the fixed scroll and the rear housing, and the injection valve assembly includes an anti-leakage means and an injection valve configured to open or close an injection flow path that guides the refrigerant, which is introduced from outside of the housing, to the compression chamber.

A scroll compressor includes a first scroll member, a second scroll member, and an aerostatic thrust bearing. The aerostatic thrust bearing forms a layer of gas between the second scroll member and a fixed supporting member to support the second scroll member as the second scroll member rotates and/or orbits. Also disclosed is a method of supporting a rotating/orbiting scroll member in a scroll compressor. The method including supplying pressurized gas to an aerostatic thrust bearing such that a layer of gas is formed between the rotating/orbiting scroll member and a fixed supporting member.

Refrigerant compressor with a hermetically sealed housing and a drive unit in the interior of the housing. At least one damping element is in the housing is connected to the drive unit. The damping element has three contact areas separated from each other by an edge, in which in a first deflected state of the drive unit a first contact area contacts a first inner surface area of the housing, wherein in a second deflected state a second contact area contacts a second inner surface area of the housing, but the first contact area does not contact the first inner surface area, wherein in a third deflected state of the drive unit a third contact area contacts a third inner surface area, but the first and second contact areas do not contact the first and second inner surface areas, respectively.

A plurality of scroll compressors with different fixed volume indexes are connected in fluid parallel circuit and configured to selectively operate to maximize isentropic efficiency at different condensing temperatures. Different quantities of scroll compressors of different volume indexes may be selected based upon typical climate or geographic location environmental conditions to attempt to maximize efficiency. A controller may selectively operate different combinations of the compressors of different volume indexes bases up load demands and condensing temperature conditions, which may be determined in a variety of ways.

An electric hermetic compressor includes a hermetic terminal with terminal pins for electrical connection of a motor inside a hermetic housing. The hermetic terminal forms a cavity, and the compressor further includes a non-conductive sealing element, which defines an enclosed space in the cavity.

There is disclosed a scroll compressor according to the present disclosure in which a discharge port is formed at a central portion thereof, and a pair of two compression chambers continuously moving toward the discharge port are formed, and a plurality of bypass portions are formed at each interval along a movement path of each compression chamber in the both compression chambers, and compression gradients of the both compression chambers are formed to be different from each other, wherein when an interval between a bypass portion closest to the discharge port and another bypass portion adjacent to the bypass portion among the bypass portions of each compression chamber is defined as a first interval, respectively, a first interval of a second bypass portion belonging to a compression chamber having a relatively larger compression gradient is formed to be smaller than that of a first bypass portion belonging to the other compression chamber between the both compressor chambers.

A rotary compressor of an embodiment has a rotating shaft, an electric motor, a compression mechanism, a balancer, and a balancer cover. The compression mechanism has a cylinder, a main bearing, and a sub-bearing. The balancer is provided on the rotating shaft on a second side of the sub-bearing in an axial direction thereof. The balancer cover covers the balancer. A lubricating oil supply path that opens on a second side end face in the axial direction is provided in the rotating shaft. A supply hole that allows the supply path to communicate with the outside of the balancer cover is formed in the balancer cover at a position facing the supply path in the axial direction. A seal mechanism that seals between the balancer cover and the rotating shaft is provided between the balancer cover and the rotating shaft while allowing relative movement between the balancer cover and the rotating shaft in the axial direction.

An accumulator fixing device for a compressor includes a bracket body, a first arm portion extending from the bracket body and coupled to an accumulator, and a second arm portion extending from the bracket body and coupled to a housing of a compressor. The bracket body has a cavity formed concavely on one surface facing the compressor to reduce vibration generated and transmitted from the compressor.