Patent ID: 8282370
Filing Date: 2012-10-09
Classification: F04C

Abstract:
1. A scroll compressor comprising a fixed scroll having a spiral wall vertically provided on one side surface of an end plate, and a revolving scroll having spiral wall vertically provided on one side surface of an end plate and being supported in such a manner as to be capable of orbitally revolving while rotation is prevented by meshing the walls, wherein a stepped section is formed on the side surface of at least one of the end plates of the fixed scroll and the revolving scroll such that the height along the spiral of the walls is high at the center portion and low at the outward end, and wherein an upper edge of the other wall of the fixed scroll or the revolving scroll, corresponding to the stepped section of the end plate is divided into a plurality of sections, and has a step-like shape such that the height of the sections is low at the center portion of the spiral and high at the outward end, wherein the scroll compressor has a first step-mesh-gap set value (Hf) occurring between step side surfaces at a bottom of the fixed scroll and a tip of the revolving scroll and a second step-mesh-gap set value (H wherein the first and second step-mesh-gap set values (Hf and H