Patent ID: 7344364
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: F01C,F04C,F25B

Abstract:
1. A fluid machine comprising: a stationary scroll member having a first tooth portion, the shape of which is spiral, and also having a first base portion to support the first tooth portion; a movable scroll member having a second tooth portion, the shape of which is spiral, and also having a second base portion to support the second tooth portion, a side of the movable scroll member on which the second tooth portion is formed being opposed to a side of the stationary scroll member on which the first tooth portion is formed, the movable scroll member being revolved while the movable scroll member is prevented from being rotated; and an operating chamber (V) formed between two sliding contact portions with the first tooth portion and the second tooth portion between the two scroll members, a volume of the operating chamber (V) being changed by the revolution of the movable scroll member, wherein the fluid machine is capable of being operated in a compression mode in which the operating chamber (V) is successively formed in an outer circumferential portion of the stationary scroll member and a volume of the operating chamber (V) is reduced while the operating chamber (V) is moved toward the center so that fluid can be compressed in and discharged from the operating chamber (V) and also capable of being operated in an expansion mode in which the operating chamber (V) is successively formed at the center of the stationary scroll member and the volume of the operating chamber (V) is increased while the operating chamber (V) is being successively formed at the center of the stationary scroll member and moved toward the outer circumferential portion and fluid is expanded in and discharged from the operating chamber (V), wherein when the fluid machine is operated in the expansion mode, after the first tooth portion and the second tooth portion contact each other on one contact face at the center, when the contact face is shifted to the two sliding contact portions, the operating chamber (V) is formed between the two sliding contact portions, wherein the stationary scroll member is open to a region which becomes the contact face, and the stationary scroll member has an introducing port for introducing the fluid into the operating chamber (V) formed at the center, wherein the introducing port extends from the first base portion in the direction of tooth height of the first tooth portion in the contact face region of the first tooth portion, wherein the extended length (L) of the introducing port in the direction of tooth height of the first tooth portion is less than the height (H) of the first tooth portion in the direction of tooth height, wherein the second tooth portion has a chip seal, which extends in the spiral direction of the second tooth portion, on the sliding contact face with the first base portion, wherein the chip seal extends along the second tooth portion and does not overlap with the introducing port during a revolution of the movable scroll member, wherein the distal end of the chip seal reaches to a portion close to a forward end portion on the center side of the second tooth portion in a region deeper beyond an imaginary boundary line passing through a distal end of the first tooth portion and an outer edge of the introducing port, and wherein a revolving trace of the chip seal passes next to the outer edge of the first tooth portion.