Suction muffler for a hermetic compressor

• US 20060118358A1
• Filed: 03/25/2004
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empresa Brasileria de Compressors S/A Embraco
• Original Assignee: Empresa Brasileria de Compressors S/A Embraco
• Inventors: Hille, Claudio Roberto, Vollrath, Ingwald
• Granted Patent: US 7,500,540 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 417/312
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/0062 Joined by injection moulding
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/0072 characterised by assembly or mounting

Abstract

A system for closing a suction muffler of a hermetic compressor, the suction muffler including: a hollow base; a cover to be coupled to the hollow base, the parts defined by the hollow base and the cover including respective mutually seatable peripheral flanges, which are shaped to define, jointly, an internal channel extended along at least part of the circumferential extension of the peripheral flanges and which is opened to the opposite external faces of the latter by means of throughbores axially aligned to each other in pairs, each pair of throughbores maintaining a circumferential distance in relation to an adjacent pair of throughbores, the throughbores of each pair and the internal channel being filled with a gasket of injected material, which projects outwardly from the throughbores so as to define an axial lock portion

Claims

1. A system for closing a suction muffler of a hermetic compressor, said suction muffler comprising:

a hollow base;

a cover to be coupled to the hollow base, said parts defined by the hollow base the cover including mutually eatable seatable peripheral flanges; and

a retaining means affixing the hollow base to the cover in the joining region where said peripheral flanges are mutually seated, characterized in that said peripheral flanges are shaped to define, jointly, an internal channel extended along at least part of the circumferential extension of said peripheral flanges and which is opened to the opposite external faces of the latter by means of throughbores axially aligned to each other in pairs, each pair of throughbores maintaining a circumferential distance in relation to an adjacent pair of throughbores, the throughbores of each pair and the internal channel being filled with a gasket of injected material, which projects outwardly from the throughbores so as to define an axial lock portion to be seated on each of the adjacent opposite external faces of said peripheral flanges.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the internal channel is continuous along the circumferential extension of the peripheral flanges.

3. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein each axial lock portion is defined by a projection of the gasket seated on the external face of the adjacent peripheral flange between two adjacent throughbores of two consecutive pairs of throughbores.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein each axial lock portion is in the form of a widened head seated on the external face of the adjacent peripheral flange.

5. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the material of the injected gasket is plastic.

6. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the hollow base and the cover in the mutual seating condition of their peripheral flanges, a labyrinth portion, for sealing the interior of the suction muffler and comprising at least one groove provided in one of said parts defined by the hollow base and the cover and in which is fitted, by interference, a respective rib provided in the other part.

7. The system as set forth in claim 6, wherein each peripheral flange defines at least one of the parts defined by the groove the rib.