Patent ID: 8029255

Claim:
A compressor comprising: a compression portion, a motor placed at an underside of the compression portion for driving the compression portion via a rotary drive axis, an airtight container retaining the compression portion and the motor and having lubricating oil pooled in a bottom of the airtight container to be sucked up by the compression portion via a suction opening in the rotary drive axis and returned to the bottom of a motor chamber by flowing through a waste oil passage formed radially in a main frame of the compression portion, and a waste oil pipe for returning the lubricating oil from the waste oil passage to the bottom of the motor chamber, wherein the waste oil pipe is an L-shaped pipe having an inserting portion to be inserted into the waste oil passage of the main frame from a radial direction of the airtight container and an oil leading portion leading to the bottom of the airtight container through a side of the motor, the L-shaped pipe being bent almost in an L-shape via a bending portion; and the main frame has a supporting groove having tight holding surfaces for tightly holding the at least one of the bending portion and the oil leading portion.