Patent ID: 8152500

Claim:
A scroll compressor, comprising: a housing including a first and second shell sections that are telescopically interfitted to define a first annular seat internal to the housing; scroll compressor bodies having respective bases and respective scroll ribs that project from the respective bases and which mutually engage; a motor providing a rotational output on a drive shaft, the drive shaft operatively driving one of the scroll compressor bodies to facilitate relative movement for the compression of fluid; a lower bearing member rotatably supporting the drive shaft, the lower bearing member engaging the first annular seat; and wherein the first and second shell sections include a tubular central shell section having opposed open ends and a lower shell section, the lower shell section received inside of the central shell section to provide a circular edge that provides the first annular seat and axially abuts the lower bearing member; wherein the lower shell section includes an end wall and a cylindrical sidewall extending integrally from the end wall, wherein the lower bearing member is located radially against an inner cylindrical surface of the cylindrical sidewall of the lower shell section; and wherein the housing further includes a third shell section that is an upper shell section, the tubular central shell section received inside of the upper shell section to provide a circular edge that provides a second seat that axially abuts an upper bearing member.