Patent ID: 6309196
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: F01C,F04C

Abstract:
A lubrication apparatus for an anti-rotation assembly of a scroll compressor, such scroll compressor including a housing, a stationary scroll element mounted within such housing substantially stationary with respect to such housing and having a stationary spiral flange projecting therefrom, an orbiting scroll element disposed within such housing and having an orbiting spiral flange projecting therefrom, such stationary and orbiting spiral flanges being intermeshed and nested with one another to define a spiraling compression pocket therebetween, each of such stationary and orbiting scroll elements having a substantially central axis, an orbital drive mechanism for driving such central axis of such orbiting scroll element in an orbit at a radius of orbit about such central axis of such stationary scroll element, and at least one anti-rotation assembly disposed within such housing for maintaining such orbiting scroll element substantially non-rotational with respect to such stationary scroll element during such orbit of such orbiting scroll element about such stationary scroll element, said lubrication apparatus comprising:a lubrication port disposed on an exterior surface of such housing; anda lubrication channel extending from said lubrication port disposed on such exterior surface of such housing to such anti-rotation assembly disposed within such housing.