With Muffler Acting On Pump Fluid Patents (Class 417/312)
  • Patent number: 8961150
    Abstract: An air exchange fan, includes: a frame provided with an opening, a helicoid housing with an air suction inlet disposed in the frame, an air blower disposed in the helicoid housing, and, a circuit board box mounted at the air suction inlet side, wherein a silencing plate is mounted above the outer peripheral of the air suction inlet, the silencing plate has a streamlining structure formed by outwardly expanding from the air suction inlet in an axial direction of a rotation axis of the air blower, the rotation axis of which serving as the center, within a range that is from a tongue of the helicoid housing to a location with a 90 degrees angled from the tongue in a direction opposing to the rotation direction of the air blower, and the silencing plate has a curved chamfered shape which mates with the peripheral shape of the air suction inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignees: Panasonic Ecology Systems Guangdong Co., Ltd., Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Jingtao Yang, Qianhao Tan, Yannong Wu, Pingting Yang
  • Publication number: 20150030473
    Abstract: A compressor assembly having a high velocity muffler system which produces a particle-free compressor pump feed while reducing noise output from the compressor assembly during compressing operations. The high velocity muffler system is maintenance-free and comprises an inertia filter. The compressor assembly uses a method for producing a compressor pump feed and reducing noise during compressing operations by processing a gas through the high velocity muffler system which has an inertia filter and a muffler chamber to produce a compressor pump feed which can be compressed by a pump assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Mark W. Wood, Stephen J. Vos, Scott D. Craig, Gary D. White
  • Publication number: 20150023812
    Abstract: The muffler has a muffler chamber formed in a rear housing, an inlet channel that provides communication between the discharge chamber and the muffler chamber, and an outlet channel that provides communication between the muffler chamber and the outlet port. The muffler chamber has a first end surface positioned on one end side of the muffler chamber, a second end surface positioned on the other end side of the muffler chamber, and an inner peripheral surface having a cylindrical shape that is positioned between the first end surface and the second end surface and extends from the discharge chamber toward the other end side. The muffler chamber is positioned between an annular wall and an outer peripheral wall. The inlet channel opens in the first end surface. The outlet channel opens in the inner peripheral surface at a position spaced apart from the second end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Masakazu OBAYASHI, Osamu HIRAMATSU, Hiroyuki NAKAIMA, Yasushi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20150023811
    Abstract: A compressor includes a compression mechanism drawing in, compressing and discharging fluid and a housing accommodating therein the compression mechanism. The housing has therein a discharge chamber into which the fluid compressed by the compression mechanism is discharged. A silencing and cooling device is provided in the discharge chamber to cool the fluid discharged in the discharge chamber and reduce pressure fluctuation. A dispersion wall is provided in the discharge chamber on downstream side of the discharge chamber that is opposite from an inflow port with respect to flowing direction of the discharged fluid. The dispersion wall is disposed to cover a part of the silencing and cooling device and cover at least a part of the inflow port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuho YAMADA, Hironao YOKOI, Masato SOWA, Katsutoshi SHIROMARU, Fumihiro SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8926293
    Abstract: Disclosed is a motor-pump assembly (1) for a brake actuating device of a motor vehicle brake system with a pneumatic brake booster. An electric motor (3) drives a double diaphragm pump (2) with two working diaphragms (4) which are located opposite one another. Air expelled from the working spaces (7) is directed into an interior space (22) surrounding a crank drive (8) of the pump housing (5). An air outlet unit (13) permits low-noise expulsion of the air from the interior space 22 by deflecting the air. In order to make available a low-noise, cost-reduced motor-pump assembly the eccentrics (9) each have an unbalance weight (25) integrally molded onto the eccentric (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Manfred Rüffer, Jens Bacher, Heinrich Kreh, Lazar Milisic, Karlheinz Seitz, Harald König, Michael Kollers, Jose Gonzalez, Michael Jürging, Marcel Niepenberg, Stephan Krebs
  • Publication number: 20150004015
    Abstract: In order to further improve the sound damping in a refrigerant compressor comprising a common housing, a screw-type compressor which is provided in the common housing and has a compressor housing that is formed as part of the common housing and in which there is arranged at least one screw rotor boring, at least one screw rotor that is arranged in the screw rotor boring such as to be rotatable about a rotational axis, a suction-side bearing unit for the screw rotor that is arranged on the compressor housing, at least one pressure-side bearing unit for the screw rotor that is arranged on the compressor housing and a housing window for compressed refrigerant that is provided on the compressor housing, and a first sound absorber unit which is arranged in the common housing, it is proposed that the first sound absorber unit be arranged adjacent the housing window, and that the sound absorber unit comprise at least one chamber which is located between an inlet opening and an outlet opening and which widens out rel
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Dominic Kienzle, Ashraf Agha, Stephan Roelke
  • Publication number: 20150004014
    Abstract: A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor may include a shell including a refrigerant inlet, a cylinder provided within the shell, a piston that reciprocates within the cylinder, and a suction muffler provided movable together with the piston. The suction muffler may include a muffler main body that defines a refrigerant passage, a main body insertion portion press-fitted into the muffler main body, and a piston insertion portion press-fitted into the muffler main body to extend into the piston. The piston insertion portion may correspond to the main body insertion portion in configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Jookon KIM, Chulgi ROH, Sungtaek WOO, Sangsub JEONG, Kyoungseok KANG, Wonhyun JUNG
  • Publication number: 20140322040
    Abstract: A muffler for a compressor and a compressor having the same are provided in which a suction noise device and a discharge noise device may integrally formed to reduce the number of components of a suction side muffler and a discharge side muffler so as to reduce leakage of refrigerant generated at an assembled portion of the muffler, and to reduce the length of a suction passage and a discharge passage. Such a division between the suction noise device and the discharge noise device may prevent discharged refrigerant from unintentionally heating suctioned refrigerant, which may reduce suction loss. The formation of the suction noise device and the discharge noise device using a plastic material may reduce fabricating costs, and the structures of the suction side noise space and the discharge side noise space may be simplified and noise removal effects may be improved, reducing an overall size of the muffler and improving noise effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jaeho CHO
  • Patent number: 8858194
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor, comprises: a hermetic shell (1); a cylinder block (2) defining, a shell portion (Ia) and a compression cylinder (3) having an end (3a) opened to the exterior of the hermetic shell (1) and closed by a valve plate (5); a head (6) affixed to the cylinder block (2), over the valve plate (5) so as to define, with the latter, at least one discharge chamber (10). The cylinder block (2) incorporates a tubular projection (20) surrounding the valve plate (5) and at least part of the head (6). An outer cover (30) is hermetically affixed to the tubular projection (20) for defining therewith a discharge plenum (31) in fluid communication with the discharge chamber (10), the tubular projection (20) or the outer cover (30) being provided with a refrigerant gas outlet (40) opened to the exterior of the hermetic shell (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Whirlpool S.A.
    Inventors: Emerson Moreira, Fabian Fagotti, Gustavo Cardoso Weber, Milton Wetzel Pereira, Ricardo Alexandre Maciel
  • Patent number: 8844429
    Abstract: A beverage maker, such as a pump espresso machine, comprises a noise attenuator reducing pump noise. The noise attenuator has a housing with an inlet chamber receiving inlet flow from an inlet port, the inlet chamber having compliant walls permitting volumetric expansion. An outlet chamber in the noise attenuator housing has an outlet port and spheroidal walls. A flow-restrictor is disposed between the inlet and outlet chambers. An elastomeric insert in the housing forms the inlet chamber and at least part of the outlet chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: G.E.W. International Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Thomas Chung Lik Yip
  • Patent number: 8842799
    Abstract: A jet pump which can restrain self-excited vibration in a connection portion between an inlet mixer pipe and a diffuser pipe without inhibiting a structural deformation due to thermal expansion and the like includes a slip joint structure connecting the inlet mixer pipe and the diffuser pipe to each other by inserting the inlet mixer pipe into an upper end opening of the diffuser pipe with a clearance left therebetween; and a self vibration damping structure configured such that when the clearance defined by an outer pipe wall of the inlet mixer pipe and an inner pipe wall of the diffuser pipe is widening or narrowing due to vibration of the inlet mixer pipe or the diffuser pipe, a flow path resistance inside a clearance flow path for pumped coolant water defined by the clearance is not smaller than a fluid inertia force all over the clearance flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masanobu Watanabe, Kunihiko Kinugasa, Tsuyoshi Hagiwara, Masahiko Warashina, Jun Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140234133
    Abstract: A sealed compressor of the present invention comprises an electric component (110); a compression component (112); a sealed container (102) which accommodates the electric component (110) and the compression component (112) and stores lubricating oil (104) therein; and a suction pipe (170) which is provided to penetrate a wall portion of the sealed container (102), and through which a refrigerant gas suctioned into the sealed container (102) flows; wherein the compression component (112) includes a compression chamber (142) formed within a cylinder (134) and a suction muffler (146) through which the refrigerant gas flows; wherein the suction muffler (146) includes a muffling space (150), an exit pipe (154), an inlet pipe (152), whose suction port (151) opens in a substantially horizontal direction in the interior of the sealed container (102), a funnel-shaped refrigerant receiver section (160) provided to surround the suction port (151); and wherein the suction port (151) is placed such that its center (151A)
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ko Inagaki, Terumasa Ide
  • Publication number: 20140227114
    Abstract: The compressor comprises a crankcase with at least one discharge muffling chamber having a bottom end wall provided with a threaded blind axial hole, a surrounding lateral wall, and an open end which defines an annular seat extending throughout the whole radial width of the surrounding lateral wall. A sealing gasket comprises a peripheral annular portion to be seated on the annular seat, and a median hole. A cover is seated on the sealing gasket and a fixation bolt has a head seated on the cover, a rod disposed through a median hole of the cover and trespassing the median hole of the sealing gasket, and a threaded end affixed in the blind axial hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL S.A.
    Inventors: Marcos Giovani Dropa De Bortoli, Guilherme Muhlmann, Fabiano Domingos Silva
  • Publication number: 20140199188
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of diaphragm pumps including a muffler-mounted sensor are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a diaphragm pump includes a shaft coupled to at least one diaphragm, an exhaust chamber configured to receive a motive fluid that has driven reciprocation of the at least one diaphragm and the shaft, a muffler disposed at least partially within the exhaust chamber, the muffler having a sensor mounting chamber defined therein, and a proximity sensor disposed in the sensor mounting chamber, a sensing end of the proximity sensor being flush with an end of the sensor mounting chamber nearest the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: Dale Treml, John Conrad
  • Publication number: 20140169992
    Abstract: A pump includes a pump chamber in which a rotor with gates is supported so that it can rotate, an electric motor for driving the rotor, an outlet, and an inlet port that is fastened to a mounting plate and is in active connection with an inlet channel. The pump should be improved so that its service life and reliability are improved with minimal installation complexity in a vehicle, wherein intense cleaning of lines and devices connected on the suction side can be eliminated. This is achieved in that a filter is arranged in the area of the inlet channel between the mounting plate and the pump chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Ingo Geue, Theodor Hüser, Dietmar Rech, Thomas Valeiras Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20140161640
    Abstract: A pump includes a pump chamber in which a rotor with gates is supported so that it can rotate, an electric motor for driving the rotor, a muffler that encloses a volume in the area of the pump chamber, wherein the volume is in active connection with an outlet port and a front muffler that is arranged within the muffler. To improve the service life and reliability of the pump in a vehicle with minimal installation expense, it is proposed that a filter is integrated into the front muffler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventors: Ingo Geue, Theodor Hüser, Dietmar Rech, Thomas Valeiras Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20140154107
    Abstract: A natural gas pumping system that includes a reciprocating compressor having at least two cylinders, a first conduit in fluid communication with an outlet of the first cylinder, a second conduit in fluid communication with an outlet of the second cylinder, and a junction in fluid communication with the first conduit and the second conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: OPTIMUM Power Technology, L.P.
    Inventors: Glen F. Chatfield, John G. Crandall, Dale K. Wells
  • Patent number: 8740580
    Abstract: A hermetically encapsulated refrigerant compressor has a hermetically sealed compressor housing, in the interior of which operates a refrigerant-compressing piston-cylinder unit, a suction duct, via which refrigerant is conveyed into the compressor housing, and a pressure duct, via which refrigerant is conveyed out of the compressor housing by the piston-cylinder unit. In order to prevent contact of oil flowing down the compressor housing wall with the suction duct or the pressure duct, a deflection element is on the compressor housing, and in the operating position of the compressor housing the deflection element is above the passage of the suction duct or pressure duct through the compressor housing wall. The heating of the refrigerant is thus prevented and the efficiency of the refrigerant compressor is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Secop Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Jost, Walter Brabek
  • Patent number: 8740581
    Abstract: A method of reducing pulsations in a reciprocating compressor system, the system having nozzles between cylinders and filter bottles of the compressor system, the nozzles attaching at ports of the cylinders and filter bottles. A special insert is designed to be placed in one or more of the nozzle. The insert is generally cylindrical, but has a narrowed throat, a flared inlet end, and a flared outlet end. The insert dimensions, such as the inner diameter of the throat and the distance from the throat to the outlet end are calculated to reduce pulsations as well as provide pressure recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Southern Gas Association Gas Machinery Research Council
    Inventors: Marybeth G. Nored, Klaus Brun, Danny M Deffenbaugh
  • Publication number: 20140147300
    Abstract: Dual cylinder and single cylinder rocking piston compressors with sound attenuation are disclosed. Due to the tapered shape intake and exhaust chamber sides and tops, the gas flow is accelerated and decelerated through the compressors thereby allowing sound energy to be dissipated. Sound attenuation is further enhanced by the addition of baffles, which divide each chamber into a series of smaller attenuation chambers. The baffles also cause the gas flow to accelerate and decelerate as the gas flow passes the baffles. In the case of a dual cylinder rocking piston compressor, enlarging the crossover passageway diameters also creates additional sound attenuation chambers, which contribute to the overall reduction in sound. Further, by using dedicated seals for each intake in exhaust chamber, flow leakage at higher pressures is decreased, thereby improving compressor efficiencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: GAST MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Lee Blackburn
  • Patent number: 8734128
    Abstract: A silencer device (10) for connection to a piston compressor of a motor vehicle: a housing (11) with an inlet (12) connected to a suction line or to an air outlet of a piston compressor, and an outlet (13) connected to an air inlet of a piston compressor or to a compressed air line. A throughflow air duct (20) extends through the housing. A quarter-wave resonator (30) in the housing has an elongate resonator duct (31) which is curved in its longitudinal direction, has at one end an inlet aperture (32) situated in a wall of the throughflow duct, and has a cross-sectional area larger than or equal to that of the throughflow duct. The other end (33) of the resonator duct is closed. A motor vehicle has such a silencer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: David God, Ragnar Glav, Lars Kjellström
  • Patent number: 8727753
    Abstract: There is provided an air pump in which vibration noise generated in a drive unit of the pump is suppressed from being transmitted to the outside through a suction passage. A casing of the air pump has a suction port extending from an outer peripheral surface to inner peripheral surface of the casing, a noise reduction wall annularly formed on the outer peripheral surface of the casing such that the suction port opens in a region of the outer peripheral surface of the casing surrounded by the noise reduction wall, and a lid member closing the opening of the top of the noise reduction wall and cooperating with the noise reduction wall and the outer peripheral surface of the casing to define a noise reduction chamber communicating with the suction port. The noise reduction wall has an elongated noise reduction passage extending circumferentially in the noise reduction wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Kohki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Ishibashi, Atsuki Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20140134009
    Abstract: A mounting assembly comprising a rigid connector structure configured to attach an air-regulating plate of an air-mover unit to an enclosure of the air-mover unit, wherein the air-regulating plate is in an air-flow pathway of air-moving elements of the air-mover unit. The assembly also comprises a flexible connector structure, wherein at least part of the flexible connector structure is held in-between a plate-mounting portion of the air-regulating plate and an enclosure-mounting portion of the enclosure by the rigid connector structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: LENNOX INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: Raymond Wojcieson
  • Publication number: 20140127047
    Abstract: A pump efficiency improvement device. The pump efficiency improvement device includes first and second junctions having a main connector, a first branch connector, and a second branch connector; and first and second branches extending between the first and second junctions. A header has a first end coupled to the pump and a second end coupled to the main connector of the first junction, the header having a length that improves performance at the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: OPTIMUM Power Technology L.P.
    Inventors: Glen F. Chatfield, John G. Crandall
  • Patent number: 8714941
    Abstract: Disclosed is a motor-pump assembly (1) for a brake actuating device of a motor vehicle brake system with a pneumatic brake booster. An electric motor (3) drives a double diaphragm pump (2) with two working diaphragms (4) which are located opposite one another. Air expelled from the working spaces (7) is directed into an interior space (22) surrounding a crank drive (8) of the pump housing (5). An air outlet unit (23, 53) has a filter housing (32, 54), a filter (33, 59), an air outlet cover (34, 56), a valve holding element (38, 70) and a valve body (31). A partition wall (37, 55) deflects the air emerging from the interior space (22) in the air outlet unit (23, 53 between the filter housing (32, 54) and the air outlet cover (34, 56), with an integrally molded valve holding element (38, 70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Manfred Rüffer, Jens Bacher, Heinrich Kreh, Lazar Milisic, Karlheinz Seitz, Harald König, Michael Kollers, Jose Gonzalez, Michael Jürging, Marcel Niepenberg, Stephan Krebs
  • Publication number: 20140119957
    Abstract: An electric vacuum pump includes: a motor part and a pump part placed in a case, and a cover member closing the case from a pump part side. The cover member includes: a suction port for sucking a fluid from pump outside into the pump part; a silencer part including a space part communicating with a discharge outlet of the pump part; and a discharge port for discharging a fluid ejected from the pump part to pump outside. The suction port has an end portion placed in sealingly contact with the pump part to hermetically communicate with a suction inlet of the pump part. The discharge port is formed with a throat part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shota YAMANAKA, Katsuhiko MAKINO, Atsushi SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140112804
    Abstract: A discrete, heat-insulating exhaust muffler device (8) and a refrigeration compressor using the exhaust muffler device are provided. The exhaust muffler device (8) includes a metal cavity body defining cavities (9, 10), and intake pipe and exhaust pipe installation holes respectively arranged on the cavities (9, 10). Non-metallic shell bodies (17, 18) are further arranged outside the cavities (9, 10), and the exhaust muffler device (8) is disposed outside cylinder blocks (14) and is separated from the cylinder blocks (14). By disposing a layer of the non-metal shell bodies (17, 18) outside the metal cavity body (9, 10), thermal contact between exhaust gas and gas inside a compressor can be reduced owing to a better heat-insulating effect of the non-metallic material, thereby reducing heat transfer from the metal cavity body (9, 10) to the outside. The gas inside the compressor can have a relatively lower temperature, and the efficiency of the compressor is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: HUANGSHI DONGBEI ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Baichang YANG, Lijian CAO, Jingxiong DAI, Renshu HE, Younan WANG
  • Patent number: 8702379
    Abstract: A blower assembly including a motor, an impeller and a volute that is configured such that an inlet chamber of the volute and an outlet chamber of the volute are divided from one another by an airtight membrane and the membrane is configured to allow the transmission of pressure waves between the inlet and outlet chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Robert Henry Frater, Hamish Alexander Urquhart, Dmitri Anatolievich Doudkine, Barton John Kenyon
  • Publication number: 20140105762
    Abstract: To prevent oil from being drawn into a suction muffler of a compressor, a suction muffler 7 is disposed in a compressor casing at an inlet of a compression chamber at an upstream side of a refrigerant passage and positioned so that the suction muffler 7 receives oil, in which an upper lid member 71, and a lower lid member 72 having a bottom wall to which refrigerant introducing and leading-out pipes 8, 72d are connected, are fitted and secured by bringing an inner face of a side wall of the member 71 into tight contact with an outer face of a side wall of the member 72, and a protruding portion 72f is provided by forming a lower end of side wall of the member 71 to protrude below a lower face of bottom wall of the member 72, to surround connecting portions of the pipes 8, 72d.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Takahisa Tobe
  • Patent number: 8678794
    Abstract: The invention concerns a refrigerant compressor arrangement (1) with a housing (2, 3) comprising a suction opening (5), a compressor (15), which is arranged in the housing (2, 3), and is connected to the suction opening (5), and a suction connection (20) that is fixed at the housing (2, 3), and comprises a housing section (21) and a tube section (22), the housing section (21) being connected to the suction opening (5) and the diameter of the tube section (22) being different from the diameter of the housing section (21). With such a refrigerant compressor arrangement, it is endeavoured to keep the dimensions small. For this purpose, in the longitudinal direction of the suction connection (20) the housing section (21) and the tube section (22) overlap each other and are connected to each other by a corrugated area (23) with at least one radial corrugation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Secop GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Holm Iversen, Marten Nommensen, Heinz Otto Lassen, Ekkehard Handke, Dirk Sommer
  • Publication number: 20140079569
    Abstract: A fan with a sound muffling box includes a box having a box inlet port and a box outlet port located on opposite sides from each other; and a double suction centrifugal fan encased in the box. The centrifugal fan includes a motor, a discharge port, an impeller, a scroll, and a casing side plate. The casing side plate has a motor-side inlet port, and an opposite-motor-side inlet port opposite to the motor-side inlet port with respect to the impeller. The discharge port is inclined with respect to the box outlet port. The fan with the sound muffling box further includes a sound insulating board disposed on the box inlet port in such a manner as to hide the opposite-motor-side inlet port and also to divide the box inlet port into plural regions when the inside of the box is viewed from the box inlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philip N.V.
    Inventor: Akimasa Uehara
  • Patent number: 8651829
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vacuum pump for vehicles which reduces noise of exhaust air generated during operation of the vacuum pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kamtec Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Sik Lim, Ki Ho Jung, Jang Ho Lee, Byung Jun Byun
  • Patent number: 8640819
    Abstract: The invention provides a noise reducing enclosure for reducing the noise from a vacuum pump, e.g. a roughing pump of a high vacuum system, the vacuum pump having a long axis and the enclosure comprising a noise dampening material and being shaped to radially enclose the vacuum pump along its long axis and being axially open at each end. Airflow is permitted through the enclosure in use and optional integrated cooling means on the pump may assist cooling of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH
    Inventor: Ronald Seedorf
  • Patent number: 8613607
    Abstract: A pressure pulsation dampener for use in a gas stream is disclosed herein. The dampener can include a housing with an inlet half and an outlet half having a recess, a shaft hole, and an extension with an outlet port. The inlet half can be secured to the outlet half, and can have an extension with an inlet port, forming a flow path. A choke plate can be disposed in the recess within the flow path. A shaft can be disposed through the outlet half to move the openings. The dampener can include an indicator plate with indicator openings. A fastener can engage the indicator openings and secure to the outlet half. The dampener can have a transducer, a motor connected to the shaft, a motor driver, and a controller in communication with the motor driver for comparing frequency rates to preset limits and activating the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Inventor: Fred Rusty Darsey
  • Patent number: 8596995
    Abstract: A sealing is arranged between a rear head having an ejection port configured and arranged to eject compressed refrigerant and a rear muffler disposed so that a muffler space is formed between the rear muffler and the rear head. The rear head includes a main body having a bearing hole, an annular boss portion protruding from the main body and circumscribing the bearing hole, and an annular side wall protruding from the main body and circumscribing the boss portion. The rear muffler has an opening and is fastened to the end surface of the side wall so that the peripheral portion of the opening contacts the end surface of the boss portion. Preferably, the end surface of the boss portion has a part entirely further from the main body than the end surface of the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Yuasa, Hiroki Kamiishida, Takehiro Kanayama
  • Patent number: 8596994
    Abstract: A compressor includes a compressing mechanism, a discharge chamber, a housing accommodating the compressing mechanism and the discharge chamber, a discharge port communicating with the discharge chamber through a discharge passage and also with an external refrigerant circuit, a muffler formed by an expanded space disposed on the discharge passage, and a check valve disposed on the discharge passage. The pressure loss caused by the discharge passage is less than that in the known compressor. The check valve is disposed in the muffler to open and close an inlet of the muffler, and the muffler is formed by the housing and a cover independent of and connected to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventor: Yukihiko Taguchi
  • Patent number: 8585372
    Abstract: A motor/pump assembly for a motor vehicle brake system including a pump and a motor driving the pump, the pump having opposite working diaphragms which are, in each case, mounted between a pump casing and a cover and thereby delimit a space and which can be moved by a crank drive, the space being assigned, in each case, an inlet duct with an inlet valve and an outlet duct with an outlet valve. The outlet ducts are arranged in the covers and in the pump casing such that air displaced out of the spaces is conducted into an inner space surrounding the crank drive of the pump casing and that an air outlet unit be provided, which allows a low-noise blow-out of the air from the inner space as a result of the deflection of the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jens Bacher, Lazar Milisic, Wolfgang Ritter, Karlheinz Seitz, Manfred Rüffer, Jose Gonzalez, Thomas Stahl, Michael Jürging, Yuejun Qian
  • Patent number: 8585373
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a hermetic compressor which can reduce the noise by regulating a suction pressure in a connector enabling a suction pipe of a hermetic container and a suction muffler to communicate with each other. The hermetic compressor includes: a hermetic container including a suction pipe through which refrigerant is sucked and accommodating a compression mechanism unit for compressing the refrigerant; a suction muffler fixed to the compression mechanism unit and reducing the flow noise when the refrigerant passes; and a connector enabling the suction pipe and the suction muffler to communicate with each other and including a hole on a refrigerant passage to communicate with an inner space of the hermetic container. An inner pressure of the connector is equalized with an inner pressure of the hermetic container, which raises a refrigerant suction pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Bok-Ann Park
  • Publication number: 20130286581
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an apparatus and system are described for a volumetric resistance blower. An apparatus may comprise a motor, a rotor comprising a cylindrical foam block, and a casing having one or more inlets arranged in an axial direction of the rotor and one or more outlets arranged in a radial direction of the rotor. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: Mark MacDonald
  • Publication number: 20130287599
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an energy-saving silencer assembly, which includes: a silencer connected to a discharge side of a pump section, which pumps reaction by-product gas into a vacuum pump, so as to pass the pumped reaction by-product gas from a rear end portion to a front end portion; an outer pipe surrounding the outer peripheral surface of the silencer at an interval so as to provide a heating space between the silencer and the outer pipe; a nitrogen gas supply section for supplying nitrogen gas to the heating space; and a nitrogen gas injection section for injecting heated nitrogen gas to the inside of the silencer by the contact with the outer peripheral surface of the silencer in the heating space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: J-Solution Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung Yong Lee
  • Publication number: 20130280109
    Abstract: A modular silencer for use on a compressor or blower mounted on a vehicle. The compressor has an intake port and an exhaust port, and the silencer has an inlet port in communication with the exhaust port of the compressor. The silencer includes a silencer housing and a resonator assembly removably positioned inside the housing. In one embodiment, the compressor includes a compressor housing and a power input shaft protruding from the compressor housing adjacent the air exhaust port. The silencer housing preferably includes a concave portion that at least partially receives the power input shaft. The silencer housing can also include a groove on the inner surface, and the resonator assembly can be at least partially positioned in the groove. Preferably, the resonator assembly includes a resonator plate, a plurality of resonator pipes extending through the plate, and a reinforcing flange coupled between at least two of the resonator pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Michael J. Lucas, Walter Mürmann
  • Patent number: 8529224
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor for adjusting the length and cross sectional area of a communication path as a refrigerant flow passage, so as to attenuate a discharge pulsation and consequently, a vibration and noise thereof. The hermetic compressor, which includes a cylinder head having a discharge chamber to discharge a compressed refrigerant and a discharge muffler to receive the refrigerant discharged from the discharge chamber, further includes a communication path to communicate the discharge chamber and the discharge muffler with each other, so as to allow the refrigerant to flow from the discharge chamber into the discharge muffler, and an auxiliary communication tube to increase a length of the communication path for increasing a refrigerant flow distance. The auxiliary communication path reduces the cross sectional area of a refrigerant flow passage while increasing a refrigerant flow distance, thereby attenuating a low-frequency component of the discharge pulsation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Il Park, Jeong Hoon Kang, Ji Hoon Choi, Phil Soo Chang
  • Patent number: 8523015
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a reciprocating motor pump (1) suitable to generate compressed gas with a reduced noise level of at most 55 dB, wherein said pump (1) includes a pump casing comprising:—a gas inlet nozzle (3);—a gas chamber;—a cylinder chamber (4) comprising a piston (5);—an inlet valve (7);—an outlet valve (8); and—a gas outlet port (9); wherein gas enters the gas chamber (2) through a gas inlet nozzle—(3) of said gas chamber (2) and then flows from said gas chamber (2) to said cylinder chamber (2) to said cylinder chamber (4) through an inlet valve (7) of said cylinder chamber (4), whereby the ratio of the diameter of the opening of the gas passage of said inlet nozzle (3) to the diameter of the opening of the gas passage of said inlet valve (7) is 1:15 to 1:5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Franciscus Eijkelkamp, Michiel Allan Aurelius Schallig
  • Patent number: 8517697
    Abstract: There is disclosed a sealed compressor in which a compressive component housed inside of a sealed container comprises a block, a suction valve, a piston, and a suction muffler, the suction muffler including a muffler body defining a muffler space and an outlet tube communicating the muffler space with the suction valve, the outlet tube having a bent portion bent in a middle portion between an opening exposed to the muffler space and an opening in a vicinity of the suction valve, a first outlet tube portion extending from the bent portion toward the muffler space, and a second outlet tube portion extending from the bent portion toward the suction valve, wherein a close sided space is formed in a vicinity of the bent portion, the close sided space having one end in communication with the outlet tube and the other end closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kinjo, Ko Inagaki, Masakazu Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 8500417
    Abstract: A motorized vacuum pump apparatus, may include an electric motor operating in response to an electric signal, a pumping unit connected with a motor shaft of the electric motor, and a sound absorbing unit enclosing the pumping unit and having an inlet for sucking external air, a damping chamber and an outlet, wherein the sound absorbing unit is directly combined with the electric motor, and wherein the external air is compressed and supplied by the pumping unit to the damping chamber and discharged through the outlet such that noise is reduced by damping compressed air in the damping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Donghee Han, Wootae Kim, Seungkook Han
  • Patent number: 8496446
    Abstract: A compressor muffler (100) for a refrigeration system is provided with an array of Helmholtz resonators (130, 230, 330) formed along an inner surface of a muffler chamber (110) of the muffler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Heng-Yi Lai
  • Patent number: 8459963
    Abstract: A slide valve for use in a screw compressor comprises a main body portion configured for sliding in a pressure pocket of a screw compressor to regulate output of a working matter through screw rotors of the compressor. The main body of the slide valve includes a plurality of walls that define an enclosed interior cavity. The slide valve also includes a bore extending into a wall of the main body such that working matter discharged from the screw rotors has access to the enclosed interior cavity. The bore is sized to dampen pressure pulsations in the discharged working matter as the discharged working matter flows through the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Peter J. Pileski
  • Patent number: 8459964
    Abstract: A noise reducing device for a hermetic type compressor is provided that includes a plate film in a connection member that connects a suction pipe and a suction muffler to each other. The plate film bends and opens when a refrigerant is sucked while preventing a back flow of noise. The plate film is capable of sucking the refrigerant without interference and preventing noise or pressure pulsation transferred in a direction of the suction pipe in the suction muffler, and thereby is capable of remarkably reducing noise of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Kyu Jung, Jea-Young Choi
  • Publication number: 20130136626
    Abstract: A rotor seat for a screw compressor with a muffle structure is provided. The rotor seat includes a seat body, a radial exhaust port arranged at the seat, a female rotor hole and a male rotor hole. The rotor seat further includes a plurality of axial blind holes arranged on a surface where the radial exhaust port is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicants: JOHNSON CONTROLS AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION (WUXI) COMPANY, LTD., JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPAN, JOHNSON CONTROLS AIR CONDITIONING AND
  • Publication number: 20130136627
    Abstract: An outlet device with collected the outer sound to control the waterway includes a shower, an electromagnetic valve, a control module and a power module with an impeller and a generator. The control module includes a sound detecting module, a calculating module, a processing module and a driving module. The sound detecting module collects the outer sound and outputs the control signal; the calculating module is connected to the power module to determine whether the real-time flowing value exceeds the preset value. If it exceeds the present value, the control module and the electromagnetic valve are turned off. The calculating module is connected to the sound detecting module and outputs the driving signal after receiving the control signal. The driving module is connected to the processing module and the electromagnetic valve. The driving module drives the electromagnetic valve when receiving the driving signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicants: XIAMEN SOLEX HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huasong Zhou, Guo-Qiang Lu, Shuiyuan Luo, Xianguo Zou