There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration
of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off
of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder
constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an
eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and
eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to
divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a
high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane
to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the
cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container
side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the
spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to form a gap, and
an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and
the housing portion. In this case, a space between the cylinder and the
hermetically sealed container is set smaller than a distance from the O
ring to an end of the plug on the hermetically sealed container side.