Patent ID: 8597004

Claim:
A scroll type compressor comprising: a fixed scroll; a movable scroll engaged with the fixed scroll; and a hermetically sealed container in which the fixed scroll and the movable scroll are mounted, wherein one scroll of the fixed scroll and the movable scroll includes: an intercommunication path that is opened to the outside of the one scroll at one end thereof, extends substantially in a radial direction of the one scroll, has a high-pressure opening intercommunicating with a high-pressure portion of the hermetically sealed container and a low-pressure opening intercommunicating with a low-pressure portion in the one scroll, and has a lower hole communicating with the high-pressure opening and an insertion hole communicating with the low-pressure opening; a pin member that is configured to be slightly smaller in diameter than the intercommunication path and movably inserted in the intercommunication path so as to form a channel through which oil flows in a gap between the intercommunication path and the pin member inserted in the intercommunication path, the oil being supplied from the high-pressure opening through the channel to the low-pressure opening; and a screw member that is provided at one end of the intercommunication path to close the one end of the intercommunication path so as to press the pin member against the end of the back side of the intercommunication path, and the insertion hole has a larger diameter than the lower hole.