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Scroll compressor with means for end plate bias and cooled gas return to sealed compressor spaces

US4216661A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 8, 1978
Grant dateAug 12, 1980
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Expiry dateDec 8, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF25B31/008
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a gas pressure increasing system for increasing the pressure of a refrigerant gas or air having a scroll compressor, a condenser, a pressure reducing means and an evaporator or a scroll compressor and a gas cooler, an exhaust gas released from the scroll compressor after having its pressure increased by the scroll compressor itself is cooled and expanded to reduce its pressure to an intermediate pressure level to produce a gas of an intermediate pressure having a cooling capability. The gas of the intermediate pressure is used to provide a force for axially sealing an orbiting scroll member of the scroll compressor as well as to cool the scroll compressor and a motor.

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