Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
Scroll fluid machine with cold forged eccentric crankshaft
Provided is a scroll fluid machine that, by using a crankshaft manufactured by cold forging and a needle bearing, can sufficiently exhibit the performance of a variable circling radius mechanism, can provide a sufficient reliability on a bearing portion of the crankshaft, and can be manufactured inexpensively. For this purpose, in a crankshaft 60 used for a driving force transmission system, a reinforced shaft unit 63 and a circular column-like large diameter unit 61 are formed at an end of a rotating shaft 16, a material is produced by a cold forging process so that an eccentric shaft 62 projects from the circular column-like large diameter unit 61, the circular column-like large diameter unit 61 is rotatably coupled to a housing 11 via a needle bearing 64, and the variable circling radius mechanism is stably operated with rigidity increased by the reinforced shaft unit 63. 
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
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Tetsuzou Takayuki Takamitsu Hiroshi Kazuhide Makoto Tomohisa Katsuhiro
Ukai Kuwahara Himeno Yamazaki Watanabe Takeuchi Moro Fujita