Patent ID: 6017203
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: F04C,Y10T

Abstract:
A scroll compressor comprising:a sealed vessel including a shell main body and a shell lid sealingly attached to said shell main body to close a top face of said shell main body;a fixed scroll arranged within said sealed vessel so that motion of said fixed scroll in radial and rotation directions is restrained, said fixed scroll having a plate-like spiral tooth;an orbiting scroll having a plate-like spiral tooth and forming a compression space by combining said plate-like spiral teeth of said fixed scroll and orbiting scroll;a frame fixed to an inner peripheral surface of said shell main body and slidably supporting said orbiting scroll; anda separation plate arranged in tight contact with an inner peripheral surface of said sealed vessel without welding between said separation plate and said inner peripheral surface of said sealed vessel, and out of contact with end faces of both of said shell main body and said shell lid, so that a space in said sealed vessel is divided into a high pressure space and a low pressure space, wherein said frame is located within said low pressure space.