US 11,815,090 B2
Scroll compressor
Sunghea Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Junghoon Park, Suwon-si (KR); Jongcheun Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Namkyu Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Dohyun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Junguk Jun, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/199,267.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0030630 (KR), filed on Mar. 12, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0057262 (KR), filed on May 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0285444 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. F04C 15/00 (2006.01); F04C 2/02 (2006.01)
CPC F04C 15/0007 (2013.01) [F04C 2/025 (2013.01); F04C 2240/30 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A scroll compressor comprising:
a housing;
a fixed scroll fixed to inside of the housing and including a fixed wrap;
an orbit scroll including an orbit wrap which forms a compression chamber together with the fixed wrap;
a back pressure chamber formed at a frame supporting the orbit scroll, and accommodating refrigerant for pressurizing the orbit scroll to a direction of the fixed scroll; and
a sealing ring arranged between the fixed scroll and the orbit scroll to prevent the refrigerant in the back pressure chamber from flowing in or out through a gap between the fixed scroll and the orbit scroll,
wherein the sealing ring comprises a cut portion cut for the sealing ring to be deformable in a circumferential direction,
wherein the fixed scroll comprises a scroll ring groove formed for the sealing ring to be inserted to the scroll ring groove, and
wherein the sealing ring is arranged in the scroll ring groove and closely contacts the orbit scroll.