Patent ID: 8469679

Claim:
A sealed type rotary compressor comprising a sealed container, a rotary compression element received in a lower part of the sealed container, and an electromotive element received in the sealed container above the rotary compression element, the electromotive element comprising a stator, and a rotor rotatably inserted into a magnetic field generated by the stator and fixed to a rotary shaft which also serves as a crank shaft to drive the rotary compression element, the compressor comprising: a discharge hole provided at a position facing an end surface of the rotor and through which a compressed refrigerant from the rotary compression element is discharged into the sealed container; and a refrigerant flow path which is extended from a space surrounded with a coil end of the stator, the coil end projecting from the end surface of the rotor to a rotary compression element side, to a space of an air gap between the rotor and the stator, to guide the compressed refrigerant discharged through the discharge hole to the electromotive element opposite to the rotary compression element side, wherein the outlet of the refrigerant flow path opposite to the rotary compression element side faces an inner wall surface of the sealed container, and wherein the volume of a space between the inner wall surface of the sealed container and the electromotive element is 1.5 times or more and 15 times or less that of a space between the rotary compression element and the electromotive element.