Abstract: A compressor discharge gas muffler comprising a single expansion chamber and an impedence tube for attenuation the fundamental low frequency discharge gas pulses, and a side outlet positioned to attenuate higher frequencies. A method of attenuation is also disclosed.

Abstract: Radiant sound reduction is achieved in a variable speed compressor by bleeding a small amount of refrigerant into the oil sump for froth production. The refrigerant is bleed from the discharge of the compressor through a solenoid controlled valve which is opened to permit a bleed flow when the compressor is operating at or above a predetermined capacity/speed. This limits system efficiency losses and produces sound reduction only when it is needed.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder piston-operated compressor having a cylinder consisting of an axially combined cylinder block closed at both axial ends by front and rear housings having suction and discharge chambers therein, a reciprocative piston mechanism arranged in the cylinder for sucking, compressing, and discharging a refrigerant gas, and a connecting flange from which the refrigerant gas after compression is sent toward an air-conditioning circuit. The cylinder block and the connecting flange define a muffling chamber for deadening pulsation in the pressure of the discharged refrigerant gas.

Abstract: A system to dampen high frequency noises in hermetic rotary compressors of the rolling piston type, usually employed in small refrigeration and air conditioning compressors without causing an increase in the cylinder dead volume, and, accordingly, a decrease in the compressor volumetric performance. A resonating chamber is provided in the cylinder or bearing and communication between the compression chamber to the resonator chamber is provided by the vane which rides on the rotating piston as it tilts toward and away from the resonating chamber or passage leading to the chamber.

Abstract: A sealed case has first and second housing portions. A motor section is arranged in the first housing portion of the sealed case and has a rotating shaft extending toward the second housing portion. A compression section has first and second compression mechanisms stacked in the second housing portion of the sealed case and driven by the rotating shaft. A first valve cover has a predetermined volume so as to temporarily store a high-pressure fluid discharged from the first compression mechanism near the motor section. A second valve cover has a predetermined volume larger than that of the first valve cover so as to temporarily store a high-pressure fluid discharged from the second compression mechanism opposite to the motor section.

Abstract: A hermetic motor-compresosr having separate discharge cavities in the compressor body for each pumping cylinder, a common discharge gas plenum for the entire compressor, and an impedance tube between each cavity and said plenum, thereby signficantly improving the sound attentuation of discharge gas pulses.

Abstract: A Helmholtz resonator is used in communication with the compression chamber of a rotary compressor in order to attenuate noise. The resonator concentrates the attenuation of noise in a frequency band around 4 kHz corresponding to the concentration of noise produced by a particular rotary compressor, this band also corresponding to the frequencies which the human ears are most sensitive to. The resonator branches off from the discharge port in an end wall of the compressor. The resonantor uses an easily machined cylindrical resonance cavity on the surface of the end wall, the resonance cavity also being bounded on one side by a cylindrical wall of the rotary compressor. The resonator significantly reduces the noise in a rotary compressor of a specific type commonly used for compressing refrigerant gases in a refrigerator.

Abstract: A cooling unit suitable for use in an automobile air conditioning system. The cooling unit includes an evaporator disposed in a casing having air inlet and air outlet openings to permit air passage through the evaporator. A vibration absorbing mechanism comprising an elastic material surrounds a peripheral surface of the evaporator and is disposed between the evaporator and the casing to prevent the transfer of vibration from the evaporator to the casing. Accordingly, the vibration absorption mechanism reduces or eliminates noise related to evaporator vibration from reaching the automotive passenger compartment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hermetic refrigeration compressor of the type including a motor compressor unit (1) suspended within a hermetic case (3). The motor compressor unit (1) comprises a cylinder provided with cylinder head (12) defining suction and discharge chambers with their corresponding values, and a suction muffler set (100). According to the invention, the suction muffles set comprises a small muffler shell (110) mounted outside the cylinder head, and an insulating hollow body (120) lining the suction chamber (13) of the cylinder head (12). A strainer device (118) is fixed between the two half parts forming the hollow body (120). This configuration facilitates the assembling of the strainer (118) and guarantees its tight fixation without any kind of fixing frame or ring. This makes it possible to enlarge considerably the area of the strainer, thus avoiding heat transfer from the metal strainer to the suction gas flow when passing throughout the meshes.

Abstract: In a low side hermetic compressor, a small portion of the compressed refrigerant gas is diverted and discharged into the oil sump through an orifice into the upper level of the oil in the sump. This results in a supersaturated solution of refrigerant in oil in the upper level which drives the refrigerant out of the oil, thereby creating froth which provides sound reduction without disturbing the lower level which remains stratified.

Abstract: The invention provides a pressure-fluctuation and noise suppressor having low flow resistance and high effectiveness. It is especially useful as a suppressor for an oil-injection inlet system of a positive-displacement air compressor. It has a cylinderical housing separated into ante- and main chambers by a partition. A tubular suppressing element is fixed through the partition eccentrically of the axis of the housing. The inlet of the suppressing element is in the form of a nozzle in the ante-chamber that widens away from the partition. In the main chamber, the wall of the suppressing element is perforated and the end of the suppressing element in the main chamber is closed by a conical member. An outlet tube is situated on a side wall of the housing in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the housing on an axis transecting the axes of the chambers and the suppressing element. An inlet extends into the ante-chamber diagonally from the nozzle of the suppressing element.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder piston-operated compressor having a combined cylinder block closed on both axial ends by front and rear housing and provided therein with a reciprocative piston mechanism, for sucking, compressing, and discharging a refrigerant gas, and a connecting flange, from which the refrigerant gas after compression is sent toward a cooling circuit. The connecting flange defines a muffling chamber in cooperation with a circumferential section of the combined cylinder block for suppressing the pulsation in discharge pressure of the refrigerant gas. The compressor further has a gas expansion chamber in which an expansion and a partial collision of the compressed refrigerant gas spouted from orifices take plate to weaken the pulsation in the discharge pressure of the gas with the least discharge loss.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for selectively determining the resonant frequency of a gas compressor including a compressor drive motor and a muffler in a generally spaced relationship, and an apparatus mechanically linking the compressor drive motor and the muffler. The apparatus as disclosed in one embodiment includes two conical frustums as wedge members, each having an axial bore accommodating a single non-resilient shaft for joining the conical frustums such that the shaft may be adjusted to force the wedge members closer together, biasing the muffler with respect to the compressor drive motor, and thereby adjusting the resonant frequency of the compressor structure to a determined resonant frequency.

Abstract: Each piston is provided with a suction plenum and the suction plenums are connected through restricted openings. This causes the suction inlets to be connected to a plurality of cylinders resulting in a continuous flow of gaseous refrigerant in each of the suction tubes.

Abstract: A hermetic reciprocating piston refrigeration compressor utilizes separate cylinder head members for the discharge and suction plenum chambers adjacent the discharge and suction valves. The two cylinder heads extend over substantially the entire area of the valve plate at the end of the cylinder carrying the valves. A discharge cylinder head is formed of metal while the suction cylinder head is formed of a plastic material of low thermal conductivity to minimize heat transfer between the discharge and suction plenums. The suction cylinder head is formed as a unitary member to include also passages and a portion of the suction muffler and is secured in place by a single fastening member.

Abstract: Reciprocating hermetic motor compressor wherein the head has only the delivery chamber and the suction muffler is directly fixed to the valve plate in such a way that a thermic exchange between the refrigerant sucked gas and the head is avoided.

Abstract: A suction sound damper for a slide piston refrigerant compressor that includes a suction nipple that is pushable into a groove of a cylinder cover of the compressor when the nipple is in a predetermined position, and is seatable in sockets formed in two shells of a damper housing. The shells are sealed together after the nipple is seated in the sockets. The suction nipple is of a material having a higher thermal resistance than the shell material. The damper includes intermediate walls that together with the shells form four somewhat triangular chambers with a throttle opening from the first chamber to the second chamber, an elongated throttle passage from the second chamber to third chamber and a throttle opening from the third chamber to the fourth chamber. The suction nipple opens to the first chamber and each shell includes a part of an inlet that opens to the fourth chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hermetic refrigeration compressor of the type including a motor compressor unit (1) suspended within a hermetic case (3). The motor compressor unit (1) comprises a cylinder provided with cylinder head (12) defining suction and discharge chambers with their corresponding valves, and a suction muffler set (100). According to the invention, the suction muffler set comprises a small muffler shell (110) mounted outside the cylinder head, and an insulating hollow body (120) lining the suction chamber (13) of the cylinder head (12). The refrigerant gas is led from the suction pipe (18) of the compressor case (3) to the inside of the insulating hollow body (120) by means of a flow leading pipe (115) arranged within the small shell (110) and communicating with its inside through radial openings (117, 116).

Abstract: In a rotary compressor for refrigeration and heat pump systems with an integrated drive motor on the high-pressure side, the operating medium will flow over the drive motor. During operating of the rotary compressor gas pulsations/pressure pulses will occur on both low-pressure and high-pressure sides. In order to suppress these pressure pulses on the high-pressure side one or more chambers with different volumes are provided, joined by channels between the discharge opening and the drive motor.

Abstract: Muffler for hermetic compressor formed by a first portion for attenuating the pulsations and for separating the oil and by a second portion provided with means for damping the gas pulsations transmitted outwardly. A little tube permits the discharge of the oil separated from the refrigerating gas from the first or second portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to the design of a capsule for a hermetically encapsulated small refrigerator. The damping of noise is an important requirement and to this end it is conventional that the motor-compressor unit mounted in the capsule is resiliently mounted relative thereto. The radiation of noise generated in the capsule is thwarted by arranging opposite wall sections in nonparallel relationships so that a sound wave striking a wall section is prevented from being reflected to a parallel wall section which would be conducive to amplification by continuing reflection.

Abstract: A muffler for motor compressors comprising a body closed at the lower side by a cover and provided on its frontal wall with a hole through which the refrigerating gas is sucked. The gas introduced into the interior of the body strikes against the rear wall of the body and is diverted toward two narrow passages formed by the lateral internal walls of the body and by vertical walls of an M-shaped element located internally of the body. The inclined walls of the element favor the collection of the oil which has separated from the refrigerating gas and directs it toward an inclined plane which facilitates the discharge of the oil, by gravity, through a groove made in the body of the muffler.

Abstract: A rotary compressor for refrigerating apparatuses, including a motor unit, a compressor mechanism section including a cylinder, rotary piston in the cylinder and a bearing between the motor unit and the cylinder, and a discharge muffler. The discharge muffler is formed of a diaphragm and a discharge cover placed over a surface of the bearing opposite the motor unit, the surface of the bearing covered by the diaphragm having a concavity therein housing a valve leading to the cylinder. The diaphragm has a permanently open diaphragm hole for permitting the pressurized gas therein to flow into a discharge chamber defined between the diaphragm and the discharge cover, whereby the portion of the concavity not filled by the valve and the diaphragm define a muffler for muffling sounds of the compressor.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed motor compressor for use in a small-size refrigerating machine, refrigerator, freezer and the like has a compressor on which is mounted a silencer comprising in combination a suction muffler of thermal insulating and a discharge muffler made of formed metal plates. The suction muffler has an suction port disposed near the open end of a suction coupling fixed to a sealed casing, and also has an connection pipe connected to a compressor cylinder and having a distal end fitted directly in a hole defined in an head plate which is mounted on the head of the cylinder. A refrigerant gas as it is introduced from the suction coupling into the sealed casing can be drawn into the cylinder through the suction port, the suction muffler and the connection pipe to minimize heat transfer to the suction gas, so that the compressor can increase its volumetric efficiency.

Abstract: The suction gas supply tubes are made integral with the seal for sealing the gap between the cylinder head and the cylinder block caused by the valve assembly. The suction gas supply tubes have flared inlets and a long, narrow tapering cross section to minimize flow loses. Additionally, the length of the tubes is such that they provide pressure pulse attenuation and tuning.

Abstract: A silencer of the resonance absorption type in a motor-compressor for refrigerators in which the resonance chamber is formed by a blind cylindrical bore in the cylinder block and communicates with the refrigerant gas duct through an opening in the valve plate.

Abstract: An improved hermetic motor compressor is disclosed which incorporates an improved discharge muffler arrangement wherein the discharge muffler is intergrated with an end portion of the shell and remote from the driving motor whereby heating of the discharge gas by the motor is substantially eliminated and a relatively large surface area is provided to transfer heat to the surrounding atmosphere. Additionally, the compressor incorporates an improved lubrication system wherein in one embodiment a pressure responsive valved vent is provided for the substantially closed crankcase and operates to create a pressure differential between an oil sump and the upper end of an oil distribution passage thereby improving lubricant flow to the bearings as well as providing means for returning lubricant from the crankcase to the sump. In another embodiment a rotating valved vent is provided which operates to selectively place this upper end of an oil distribution passage in communication with the crankcase.

Abstract: A compressor and a method of assembling a compressor. The compressor comprises a central section, a cylinder head, and a suction muffler. The cylinder head of the compressor is secured to the central section thereof, and the cylinder head defines a muffler recess including a locking portion. The suction muffler extends into and is secured within the muffler recess in pressure engagement with the surfaces of the cylinder head defining the muffler recess. The suction muffler includes a locking flange extending into the locking portion of the muffler recess to limit movement of the suction muffler away from the cylinder head.

Abstract: A muffler on the intake tube in a hermetically sealed compressor for refrigerating apparatuses in direct communication with the intake chamber located in the compressor cylinder head. The body of the muffler, preferably made of plastic material, consists of two half-shells of identical form and structure assembled in an overlapped way and turned by 180.degree. C. with respect to each other.

Abstract: A muffler for hermetically sealed compressors consisting of a body made of plastic material with two chambers separated by a wall and directly assembled on the compressor cylinder head by means of two lined up small tubes equipped with special sealing means. The danger that the muffler may break loose from the head and possibly rotate on its axis of vertical symmetry is thus avoided.

Abstract: A hermetic reciprocating piston refrigeration compressor has a high efficiency muffler system. The suction muffler has an inlet adjacent the refrigerant return line and is made of an insulating material. It is mounted on a pair of suction tubes secured to the cylinder head and extending into the interior of the muffler. A discharge muffler system includes a pair of large muffler chambers formed partially in a cylinder block and connected by an external transfer tube. A large straight passage connects the discharge plenum in the cylinder head with one muffler chamber, while a discharge line extends from the other muffler chamber to the exterior of the compressor casing.

Abstract: A motor compressor unit comprising a compressor, a motor, a shell enclosing the compressor and the motor, a motor cap located within the shell, covering a portion of the motor, and defining an attenuation tube opening, and an attenuation tube connected to the motor cap and extending through the attenuation tube opening. The attenuation tube includes a body; first and second lower lips extending outward from the body, below and in pressure contact with an outside surface of the motor cap, first and second alignment flange portions projecting above the first and second lower lips, adjacent opposed surfaces of the motor cap defining the attenuation tube opening; said first and second upper lips extending outward from the body, above and in pressure contact with an inside surface of the motor cap.

Abstract: A hermetic compressor housing formed from sheet metal as two housing halves which when joined form a generally ellipsoidal inner surface having a maximum radius of curvature of about one order of magnitude greater than the minimum radius of curvature and deviating from the generally ellipsoidal shape only where necessary for supporting a compressor-motor assembly therein and for joining the housing halves is disclosed and provides a housing of relatively uniform rigidity to reduce the level of sounds radiated thereby. In one specific embodiment all of the audible natural resonant frequencies of the housing are above 3500 Hz.

Abstract: A hermetic refrigeration compressor includes a suction muffler formed from two pieces of plastic material mounted on the cylinder housing. One piece is cylindrical in shape with an end wall having an aperture for receiving a suction tube connected to the cylinder head. The other piece fits over and covers the other end of the cylindrical piece, and includes a flaring entrance horn which extends toward the return line on the sidewall of the compressor shell.

Abstract: A vortex tube assembly having a muffler at the cold air outlet for suppressing the noise of cold air discharged from that outlet, the muffler being warmed to a limited extent, and thereby protected against icing, by directing air from the hot air outlet into heat-exchanging relation with respect to said muffler.

Abstract: A muffler for a refrigeration gas compressor which is tuned such that the attenuation curve and the impedance curve cross the frequency axis at the pumping frequency of the compressor so as to result in optimum sound attenuation for the higher frequencies with minimum impedance at the pumping frequency. The muffler comprises a housing having first and second compartments with an inlet tube in the first compartment adapted for connection to a compressor gas outlet line to permit gas flow from the compressor gas outlet into the first compartment. An elongated tube has a first section in the housing with an inlet in the first compartment, a second section in the housing with an outlet in the second compartment, with these sections being joined by a third curved section disposed entirely outside of the housing. An outlet from the second compartment leads to the exterior of the compressor housing.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved sheet metal muffler for attenuating the sound of the gas discharged from a hermetic refrigeration compressor, wherein the muffler generally comprises a sheet metal casing having a hollow interior which is divided into two substantially equal chambers by a central baffle, with a restrictor tube extending through the baffle for placing the chambers in communication with one another, the restrictor tube being provided with a flared entrance portion at its upstream end and a venturi-like restriction intermediate its length.