Patent ID: 8235690

Claim:
A scroll compressor comprising, in a sealed container, a scroll compression element; a motor element which drives the scroll compression element; and a support frame having a bearing portion which keeps a shaft of the motor element, the scroll compression element including a fixed scroll in which a spiral lap is vertically provided on the surface of a mirror plate and a orbit scroll which is revolved by the motor element with respect to the fixed scroll to vertically provide a spiral lap on one face of the mirror plate, both the laps being engaged with each other to form a plurality of compression spaces, each compression space being gradually reduced from the outside to the inside so that a gas sucked through a suction tube connected to the compression space of the outer peripheral portion of the scroll compressor is compressed, discharged into the sealed container on a fixed scroll side from the center of the compression element, guided to the motor element side through a communication path provided in the support frame, and discharged through a discharge tube connected to the sealed container in the vicinity of the bearing portion, the scroll compressor further comprising: a shield plate which extends from the support frame to the motor element side to surround the periphery of the bearing portion; and a guide member provided at an outlet of the communication path to guide the discharged gas in the direction of the shield plate, the guide member having an outer wall, a pair of side walls having attachment walls fixing the guide member to an inner surface of the sealed container, and a bottom wall, with one of the pair of attachment walls having a bent guide wall extending substantially parallel to one of the pair of side walls, a cutout portion provided on the side wall opposite the guide wall, and a predetermined dimension in the side wall left at each end thereof, with a gap provided between the bottom wall and the inner surface of the sealed container, such that oil collected by the guide member drops to the oil reservoir.