US 7,588,427 B2
Variable capacity rotary compressor
Ji Young Bae, Busan (Korea, Republic of); Kyoung Jun Park, Changwon-si (Korea, Republic of); Chang Yong Jang, Gwangju (Korea, Republic of); and Hyeon Kim, Changwon-si (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Appl. No. 10/560,112
PCT Filed May 03, 2004, PCT No. PCT/KR2004/001028
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Mar. 07, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/109114, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2003-0037662 (KR), filed on Jun. 11, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0210418 A1, Sep. 21, 2006
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. F04C 2/00 (2006.01); F04C 28/18 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 418—32  [418/11; 418/23; 418/60; 417/218; 417/221] 48 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rotary compressor; comprising:
a driving shaft that is rotatable clockwise and counterclockwise directions, and that has an eccentric portion of a predetermined size;
a cylinder having a predetermined inner volume;
a roller rotatably installed on an outer circumferential surface of the eccentric portion so as to contact an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder, wherein the roller performs a rolling motion along the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder and forms a fluid chamber therewith in which fluid is compressed;
a vane elastically installed in the cylinder so as to contact the roller;
upper and lower bearings respectively installed at upper and lower portions of the cylinder, the upper and lower bearings rotatably supporting the driving shaft and hermetically sealing the inner volume of the cylinder;
a plurality of suction ports and a plurality of discharge ports that each communicate with the fluid chamber so as to suction and discharge fluid;
a suction plenum that communicates with at least one of the plurality of suction ports, and that stores fluid therein; and
a compression mechanism configured to form compressive spaces of different sizes in the fluid chamber based on a rotational direction of the driving shaft, wherein the compression mechanism provides a first compression capacity in a clockwise rotational direction and a second compression capacity in a counterclockwise rotational direction.