Abstract: A mounting arrangement for a hermetic compressor, comprising a shell (10) formed of a metallic plate and incorporating tubular projections (12) with the upper end (12a) opened to the inside of the shell (10) and with the lower end (12b) closed, fitted and tightly retained, by mechanical deformation of the parts, inside a drawn recess (22) of a respective basic plate (20) to be affixed under the shell (10).

Abstract: A method of producing the core of an electric motor by providing a stack of laminations of magnetic material. Windows are formed in the laminations for one or more magnetic elements to be placed in each window. Each window has an end edge portion (17) which is to be at the peripheral edge (18) of the lamination of the finished version of the rotor. The laminations originally have an annular radial extension (60-61) and after the core is assembled with end caps, the annular radial extension (60-61) is removed so that the window end edge portions (17) are at the periphery (18) of the laminations. There is a polar peripheral portion (20) between each window and the periphery (18) of the lamination and an intermediate peripheral portion (40) between two adjacent polar peripheral portions, with such intermediate polar portions having reduced electrical conductibility and reduced magnetic permeability.

Abstract: A reciprocating hermetic compressor, of the type including a rotor with permanent magnets and having its tubular vertical shaft (5) provided radially externally to the internal surface thereof with at least one axial channel (10) of oil conduction, having a lower end (11) immersed in the lubricant oil being pumped from a lubricant oil sump (2) defined at the bottom of the hermetic shell of the compressor, and an upper end (12) opened to a median radial duct (5a), which conducts lubricant oil to the parts of the compressor spaced away from the lubricant oil sump (2).

Abstract: A suction muffler for a hermetic compressor, comprising a hollow body (10,20) provided with gas inlet and gas outlet nozzles (12,22) and, internally, with a plurality of chambers (C1, C2, C3) and a duct (T) having an end connected with and opened to the gas inlet nozzle (12), median windows (45,55), which are longitudinally spaced from each other and opened to respective chambers (C1, C2), and an opposite end opened to a last chamber (C3), which is maintained opened to the gas outlet nozzle (22). The last chamber (C3) is partially divided in two volumes with different shapes and dimensions, the opposite end of the duct (T) projecting to the inside of the last chamber (C3), both the gas outlet nozzle (22) and the opposite end of the duct (T) being opened to the larger volume of the last chamber (C3).

Abstract: The present invention refers to a new construction for the evaporation tray for the defrost water in refrigeration systems of refrigerators and freezers and, more especifically, to a new construction for the evaporation tray of the type which is affixed onto the shell of the hermetic compressor of said refrigeration systems.

Abstract: A process for magnetizing the permanent magnets of an electric motor rotor and a process for assembling a hermetic compressor motor, whose stator (30) carries a plurality of coils (40), said rotor being operationally positioned with a determined relative angular position in relation to the stator (30) prior to the energization, from an external current source, of a determined number of coils (40) of said stator (30) with a current pulse having a required intensity to generate a magnetic field which produces a homogeneous magnetization transversely oriented in at least one magnetic sector, said current pulse being maintained during a shorter time than that which impairs the coils of said stator (30).

Abstract: A hermetic compressor for a refrigeration system, in which a previously dilated tubular bushing (10) is mounted around an axial portion of a shaft (6) and affixed to said axial portion upon contraction thereof, said tubular bushing (10) mounted to the shaft (6) then being assembled and rotatively axially affixed inside the rotor (4).

Abstract: An improvement in a starting system for an electric motor, which drives a hermetic compressor of refrigeration and comprises a main winding (1), and an auxiliary winding (2), which are energized by an electric current source (3), through a hermetic terminal (40) affixed to the outside of the compressor shell, the auxiliary winding (2) having a terminal connected to the electric current source (3) through a starting device (10) mounted inside the compressor shell and in series with a fusible element (20) to be opened when submitted to an electric current, in order to definitively interrupt the energization of the auxiliary winding (2) by means of the starting device (10), said hermetic terminal (40) being designed to receive an external starting device (50), in order to promote the selective connection between said other terminal of the auxiliary winding (2) and the electric current source (3) upon the definitive opening of the circuit defined by the fusible element (20) and the starting device (10).

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor with a linear motor, having a piston (1) reciprocating inside a cylinder (2); a cylinder head (5) provided with suction and discharge orifices (5a, 5b), and a valve means (10) mounted inside the cylinder (2) and having an operative position, seated against the discharge orifice (5b), defined when the top of the piston (1) is within a certain distance (D) from the cylinder head (5), said distance being defined, so that, at the end of the compression stroke of the piston (1), be reached inside the cylinder (2) a determined pressure that will result in a force on the piston (1) opposite to that force which is impelling said piston (1) and which is sufficient to interrupt its compression stroke before impacting the cylinder head (5).

Abstract: A driving control system for electric motors, of the type used in refrigeration compressors and including: a power source (20) in direct current having, between positive (21) and negative (22) terminals of equal voltage, a median terminal (25), of null voltage, to which is directly connected a first coil (11) of the electric motor (10); an inverter (30) provided with N−1 commutation arms with opposite ends connected to the power source (20) and each including switch means, each commutation arm being medianly connected to a respective coil; and a control unit (40) operating the switch means, as a function of the signals received from a position sensor means (50), in order to determine to said switch means, in each of a first and a second switching condition thereof, a switching frequency and a switch conduction period, which are defined in order to be effectively applied to the coils a voltage effectively corresponding to the speed and torque required for the motor.

Abstract: A connecting rod-piston mounting arrangement for a reciprocating compressor of small refrigeration systems, in which one of the parts defined by the piston (10) and the end (22) of the connecting rod (20) adjacent the said piston (10) carries a first spherical seat (11) and a spherical annular seat (12), the other of said parts incorporating a second spherical seat (23) turned to the first spherical seat (11) and a spherical annular surface (24) seated against the spherical annular seat (12), said first and second spherical seats (11,23) being seated onto respective opposite spherical surface portions (31,32) of a ball joint element (30) provided between the piston (10) and the connecting rod (20).

Abstract: An electric motor rotor with permanent magnets, the rotor including magnets (20) seated against a cylindrical lateral surface (11) of the core (10) of the rotor and a pair of annular caps (40), each cap being seated and affixed to an adjacent end face (12) of the core (10), the annular caps (40) limiting axial displacements of the magnets and defining, for both directions of circumferential displacement, stops for this displacement for each magnet (20), the confronting lateral edges (21) of a pair of consecutive magnets (20) being positioned by the annular caps (40), in order to define a previously established minimum circumferential distance.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed shell (21) contains a reciprocating hermetic compressor that has a suction inlet tube (28) for admitting gas into the shell; a suction orifice (24a) which is provided at the head of a cylinder (22) disposed inside the shell (21) and which is in fluid communication with the suction inlet tube (28). A suction duct (60) has a first end (61) hermetically coupled to the suction inlet tube (28) and a second end (62) hermetically coupled to the compressor suction orifice inlet (24a) and conducts low pressure gas from the suction inlet tube (28) directly to the suction orifice (24a) inside of shell (21), the suction duct (60) providing thermal and acoustic energy insulation to the gas being drawn into the compressor and is dimensioned to produce a load loss reduction in the gas flow from the suction inlet tube (28) to the suction orifice (24a).

Abstract: A wound cover arrangement for an electric motor rotor, said rotor including a core (20), magnets (30) surrounding said core and a cover (10), which is wound around the core, in order to retain said magnets (30) on said core, said arrangement comprising a pair of mold end elements (40), each mounted to an end face portion of the rotor core (20) and to the adjacent end face of at least one of the parts defined by the cover (10) and magnets (30), and which has a peripheral edge portion (41) provided with at least one recess (43) extending towards the rotor axis, the distance between said rotor and the bottom of said recess (43) defining the smallest winding end radius of the cover.

Abstract: A section arrangement for a reciprocating hermetic compressor, includes a hermetic shell (21), a suction inlet tube (28) for gas admission and a suction orifice (24a) at the head of a cylinder (22) disposed inside the shell (21) and which is in fluid communication with the suction inlet tube (28). A suction duct (60) has a first end (61) and a second end (62), which are hermetically coupled to the suction inlet tube (28) and suction orifice (24a), respectively, in order to conduct low pressure gas from the suction inlet tube (28) directly to the suction orifice (24a) and to provide thermal and acoustic insulation to the gas flow being drawn. At least one pressure equalizing element (70) provides a predetermined fluid communication of the gas being drawn between the suction inlet tube (28) and the suction orifice (24a) into the shell (21) and maintains the thermal and acoustic insulating characteristics of the suction duct (60) substantially unaltered.

Abstract: A device for mounting the shaft to the rotor of an electric motor, comprising the steps of: positioning a cylinder block (3) and a rotor (7) relative to each other with a predetermined axial spacing therebetween and with the axes of a bearing bore of the cylinder block (3) and of a central bore of rotor (7) being aligned to each other inside a hermetic chamber (10) having an atmosphere inert at pressures higher than the atmospheric pressure; introducing a shaft (5) which has been diametrically contracted by refrigeration in the hermetic clamber (10) through both the bearing bore and the central bore of the rotor (7); maintaining the shaft (5)-cylinder block (3)-rotor (7) assembly inside the hermetic chamber (10) immobilized until the diametrical thermal dilatation of the shaft (5) causes said shaft to be secured to the wall of the central bore of rotor (7) and until a thermal balance between the parts has been achieved.

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor with a linear motor, comprising a hermetic housing (10), which lodges a cylinder (20), a piston (30); a rod (40), which is coupled to the piston (30) and which is axially displaceable by a linear motor (50); a first supporting means (70) and a second supporting means (80), which are elastically deformable and coupled to the housing (10) and, respectively, to the cylinder (20) and to the rod (40), and which are electromagnetically displaceable in opposite directions, in order to provoke the axial displacement of the cylinder (20) and of the piston-rod assembly (30, 40) between the upper and lower dead point positions.

Abstract: A hermetic compressor for refrigeration systems, having a plurality of pistons of piezoelectric material (20) arranged within a hermetic shell (10), according to at least one sequential alignment and occupying, when in a first energizing condition, all of the corresponding internal volume of the hermetic shell (10). Each of the pistons (20) contracts relative to the same first lateral wall (14) of the hermetic shell (10) when in the second energizing condition, so as to have one of its end faces (21) distanced from the shell first lateral wall (14) in order to define the respective volume of fluid being compressed, which volume progressively decreases from the first to the last piston (20).

Abstract: A process for mounting the shaft to the rotor of an electric motor, comprising the steps of: positioning a cylinder block (3) and a rotor (7) relative to each other with a predetermined axial spacing therebetween and with the axes of a bearing bore of the cylinder block (3) and of a central bore of rotor (7) being aligned to each other inside a hermetic chamber (10) having an atmosphere inert at pressures higher than the atmospheric pressure; introducing a shaft (5) which has been diametrically contracted by refrigeration in the hermetic chamber (10) through both the bearing bore and the central bore of the rotor (7); maintaining the shaft (5)-cylinder block (3)-rotor (7) assembly inside the hermetic chamber (10) immobilized until the diametrical thermal dilatation of the shaft (5) causes said shaft to be secured to the wall of the central bore of rotor (7) and until a thermal balance between the parts has been achieved.

Abstract: A suction muffler for a hermetic compressor, comprising a hollow body (10) affixing a gas duct (20) which is defined by a gas inlet portion (21) having an inner end (21a) internal to said muffler body and an outer end (21b) external to said muffler body and in fluid communication with a suction inlet tube (8) provided in the hermetic shell (1) of the compressor, and a gas outlet portion (22) having an inner end (22a) internal to said muffler body and an outer end (22b) external to said muffler body and connected to a suction orifice, which is provided in the head (5) of a cylinder disposed inside the shell (1) and where is mounted the suction muffler, the extension of the gas duct (20) internal to the hollow body (10) being spaced from the walls thereof.