US Patent 7934915 Valve assembly for scroll compressor

A scroll compressor has a reed valve mounted on a central discharge port. The reed valve has a valve portion at a first end and a pin holding the reed valve onto a non-orbiting scroll member at a second end. The reed valve extends along a plane which is non-perpendicular to a drive axis of a drive shaft such that the second end, which receives the pin, is further removed from the compression chambers than is the first end of the reed valve, which covers the central discharge port.