Patents Assigned to Empresa Brasileira de Compressores
  • Patent number: 5939809
    Abstract: A rotor with permanent magnets for an electric motor, comprising a plurality of magnets (2, 20) disposed around the circumferential surface of a rotor core (1, 10) and equally spaced from each other, an external cover (40), affixing the magnets against the rotor core, each magnet (20) being seated onto the core (10) through corresponding supporting means (30, 50, 60), which are restrained from displacements relative to each said magnet (20) and which are positioned, according to alignments parallel to each other and to the rotor access, symmetrically in relation to a longitudinal plane of symmetry (X) of the magnet (20) and spaced from each other by a distance smaller than the distance between the end lateral edges (21) of the magnet (20), in order to minimize the distance between the regions in which the reaction force of both the rotor core (10) and external cover (40) is applied on each magnet (20) under different temperature conditions of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A Embraco
    Inventor: Marcos Romeu Mobius
  • Patent number: 5918620
    Abstract: Patent of invention for pressurizing and sealing device and process for hermetic systems, provided with a gas feeding conduit (1), comprising: a tubular body (10) defining an internal chamber (13) between a first end (11) which can be tightly seated against an open external end (2) of the gas feeding conduit (1) and a second open end (12), and a pressurized gas inlet nozzle (14) opened into the internal chamber (13); an elastomeric plug (30) which can be positioned inside the tubular body (10) in such a way that it can be selectively displaced from a pressurizing condition, sealing the second end (12) of the tubular body (10) when the internal chamber (13) and the hermetic system are pressurized through the pressurized gas inlet nozzle (14), to a plugging condition, in which it is sealingly fitted and maintained in the external end (2) of the gas feeding conduit (1) after said pressurization has ended; and an impelling means (40), which is coupled to the tubular body (10) and which can be selectively activate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira De Compressores S./A-Embraco
    Inventor: Diego Luiz Rauber
  • Patent number: 5762479
    Abstract: In a compressor there is a hermetic case (1) having a high pressure gas outlet (1a) that houses a cylinder block (3) defining a gas suction chamber (7) and a gas discharge chamber (8). A main gas discharge tube (9) has an inlet end (9a) in fluid communication with the gas discharge chamber (8) and an outlet end (9b) communicating the gas discharge chamber (8) with the gas outlet (1a) of the case. At least one gas discharge auxiliary tube (10) is provided with an inlet end (11) receiving gas from the discharge chamber (8) and an outlet end (12) to provide the gas to the gas stream flowing in the main gas discharge tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira De Compressores S/A - Embarco
    Inventors: Edemar Baars, Edson Correa Miguel
  • Patent number: 5762164
    Abstract: Oil pump for a variable speed hermetic compressor, comprising: a hermetic shell (1), which defines a lubricant oil sump (2) at its bottom and which lodges therewithin a cylinder block (3), supporting a vertical eccentric shaft (5), which carries an electric motor rotor (8), said eccentric shaft (5) being provided with at least one oil channel (9), having an upper end (9a) opened to the external part of the upper median portion of the eccentric shaft (5), said eccentric shaft (5) supporting at its lower end (5b) a pump rotor (10); at least one oil conducting channel (20), which is machined to the body of said rotor (8) and which presents a lower end opening (20b) facing the pump rotor (10) and an upper end opening (20a) for oil discharge to said oil channel (9), said oil conducting channel (20) having at least the part of its length, that includes the upper end opening (20a), radially spaced in relation to the eccentric shaft (5); a stationary oil collecting means (30), which is attached to the cylinder block
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira De Compressores S/A - Embraco
    Inventors: Manfred Krueger, Dietmar Erich Bernhard Lilie
  • Patent number: 5707220
    Abstract: Centrifugal oil pump for variable speed hermetic compressors, comprising: a hermetic shell (1), which lodges therewithin, a cylinder block (3), supporting a vertical eccentric shaft (5), whereto is mounted the rotor (8) of an electric motor (6), the eccentric shaft (5) being provided with at least one oil channel (9), having a lower end (9b), opened to a lower end (5b) of the eccentric shaft (5), wherein the eccentric shaft-rotor assembly attaches, at its lower part, an upper extension (12) of a pump rotor (10) and a tubular sleeve (20), attached to an inertial portion of the compressor and surrounding at least the portion of said pump rotor (10) external to the rotor (8), said pump rotor (10) presenting a centrifugation region (15), radially extending beyond the edges of the lower end (5b) of the eccentric shaft (5) and having a lower end nozzle (10b) that is permanently immersed in the oil sump (2), which is internally defined at the bottom of the shell (1) and with at least an upper radial nozzle (11b), co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A.-Embraco
    Inventors: Manfred Krueger, Dietmar Erich Bernhard Lilie
  • Patent number: 5692887
    Abstract: A rotary compressor having a cylinder within which an eccentric piston is rotated. A vane has one end mounted in a radial slot in the cylinder and an insert is mounted in the other end of the vane. The insert has a concave face to contact the outer surface of the piston as it rotates and an engaging element in the form of a key lodged in slots in the insert and the piston, acts simultaneously on the piston and insert and restrains the piston from rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A-Embraco
    Inventors: Manfred Krueger, Rinaldo Puff
  • Patent number: 5678983
    Abstract: Discharge valve actuating system for hermetic compressors of the type having a piston (3) reciprocating inside a cylinder (2) which pumps gas to a discharge chamber (22) maintained in selective fluid communication with the cylinder (2) through a discharge orifice (12) provided on a valve plate (10) and closed by a respective reed discharge valve (40). There is at least one subchamber (70) which maintains with the discharge chamber (22) a fluid communication that is constantly blocked by a movable blocking element (60) which moves between an operative position of contact with the discharge valve (40) when at a closed position and an inoperative position of spacing from said discharge valve (40). The inoperative and operative positions are defined as a function of the pressure inside the discharge chamber (2) in relation to the pressure existing in the subchamber (70) during each pumping cycle of the piston (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira De Compressores S/A - Embraco
    Inventor: Dietmar Erich Bernhard Lilie
  • Patent number: 5671655
    Abstract: A two-piece connecting rod for a reciprocating hermetic compressor, of the type comprising a first connecting rod portion (20), including a smaller eye (21) and the rod (22) of the connecting rod, and a second connecting rod portion (30), including a larger eye (31), and further comprising: an engaging element (23), provided at one of the parts defined by the first and second connecting rod portions (20, 30); a receiving housing (32), provided at the other of said parts and shaped in such a way as to receive during the assembly of the connecting rod the engaging element (23), and permit the articulation between the first and second connecting rod portions (20, 30), at a diametral plane common to both the eyes and the geometrical axis of the rod (22) of the connecting rod, and mounting means (40), carried by one of said first and second connecting rod portions (20, 30) and acting on the other of said portions, in order to prevent said portions from moving away from each other, by involuntary mutual axial spaci
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira De Compressores S/A - Embraco
    Inventor: Ingwald Vollrath
  • Patent number: 5651267
    Abstract: A refrigeration system having a compressor with a check valve on the high pressure side to prevent refrigerant migration when the compressor shuts down; the improvement comprising a slot at the discharge valve plate forming an equalizing volume to provide gas leakage to the low pressure side during a stoppage so as to reduce starting torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A - Embraco
    Inventors: Marcio Luiz Todescat, Dietmar Erich Bernhard Lilie, Manfred Krueger
  • Patent number: 5535611
    Abstract: A method of permanently bending a first part of a subject body having non-linear elastic properties about a bending line to a desired angle relative to a second part of the body in which a first set of data is produced from similar bodies of the amount of permanent bending obtained as a function of different amounts of angular displacement of the first part, the first part of a subject body is permanently bent to a first angle different from said desired angle by angularly displacing the subject body's first part by an amount determined by the first set of data and thereafter the first part of the subject body is further angularly displaced from the first angle to permanently bend its first part to the desired angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A - Embraco
    Inventor: Dietmar E. B. Lilie
  • Patent number: 5510688
    Abstract: Driving system and method for an electronically commutated multi-speed motor having a coiled stator and a rotor with at least one permanent magnet and having an electronic circuit that feeds voltage to the coils (1, 2, 3) of the stator according to a relative rotor position as sensed by a sensor mounted to the motor shaft, or by interpreting the voltages induced to the stator coils by the moving rotor. A voltage is supplied to an inverter circuit (10) whose output is applied to motor stator coils (1, 2, 3). The voltage applied to the inverter circuit is varied, making use of a speed switching circuit that can include a voltage multiplier or a voltage divider circuit and the variation of the inverter output voltage varies the motor speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A-Embraco
    Inventor: Marcos G. Schwarz
  • Patent number: 5488834
    Abstract: Control circuit for a refrigerating system, used in hermetic compressors, comprising first and second temperature sensors (61,62) and a current sensor (63) for the current drawn by the motor, said control circuit including a central processing unit (30), which instructs at least the selective closing of first and second driving switches (40,50), which are respectively connected with a main winding (11) and with a starting winding (12) of an electric motor (10), when the first temperature sensor (61) detects a temperature inside the refrigerating cabinet corresponding to a maximum value of an ideal temperature interval, previously informed to the central processing unit (30), the temperature of the motor (10) and the current drawn by said motor (10) being within their respective ideal operative values, previously informed to said central processing unit (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A - Embraco
    Inventor: Marcos G. Schwarz
  • Patent number: 5421245
    Abstract: The assembly is used in a reciprocating hermetic compressor of the type comprising a cylinder block (4), presenting a cylinder (11), within which a piston (20) reciprocates, a smaller eye (31) of a connecting rod (30) being introduced into and retained inside said piston (20), through an articulating pin (40), having its end portions supported on respective radial lateral openings of the piston, wherein the portions, which are defined by the peripheral edge of at least one end of the articulating pin and the adjacent internal surface (23a, 24a) of the respective lateral radial opening (23, 24) of the piston (20), are attached to each other by at least one welding spot contained in a respective first welding region, located in a sector of about 90 degrees of said end and symmetric to a diametral line of said end of the articulating pin (40), said line being parallel and coplanar relative the longitudinal axis of the piston (20), at least one welding spot being provided in at least a second welding region oppos
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S.A. - EMBRACO
    Inventors: Fernando Christoffel, Ingwald Vollrath, Jose Fernandes
  • Patent number: 5302885
    Abstract: A starting device for a single phase induction motor, of the type having a cage type rotor and a stator having at least one main coil and one starting coil, which is connected in series with first and second terminals of an alternating current source. The starting device comprises a relay (RL) having at least one contact, with one of the terminals thereof being connected to the first terminal (1) of the alternating current source (F), while the other terminal of said contact is connected to the terminal of the starting coil (L2); and a coil (B) for actuating the relay; an electronic timer circuit (T), which is connected to the terminals of the coil (B) for actuating the relay (RL), in order to open the contact of the latter by supplying a current to the coil (B) thereof, thereby finishing the starting operation of the motor (M), after a period of time has elapsed from the motor (M) powering up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S.A.-Embraco
    Inventors: Marcos G. Schwarz, Egidio Berwanger
  • Patent number: 5218762
    Abstract: A process to manufacture a cylinder for a rotary hermetic compressor having a rolling piston, of the type presenting a substantially cylindrical tubular body (20) which defines a pair of opposite end faces (21,22) that are parallel to each other; an internal cylindrical wall (23); and an external wall (24) which is spaced away from said internal cylindrical wall (23), said cylinder further presenting a radial vane slot (10) which is provided from said internal cylindrical wall (23), includes the steps of:a) shaping in a unique blank piece a substantially cylindrical tubular body (20);b) providing tension concentration zones in the cylindrical tubular body (20), so as to define a weakening line according to a partitioning diametral plane which passes through the cylinder part that is going to receive the vane slot (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A -Embraco
    Inventor: Caio M. F. Netto Da Costa
  • Patent number: 5201640
    Abstract: Suction muffler assembly for hermetic compressors of the type including a cylinder block (4) mounted in the upper part of a hermetic case (3) and provided with a cylinder (10) lodging a reciprocating piston (15); a valve plate (11) attached to an open end of the cylinder (10) and having a suction orifice (11a); a suction muffler assembly attached to the cylinder block (4) and including a hollow muffler body (100) provided with a gas inlet opening (101, 130a) and a gas outlet opening (121); and a suction duct (140) having one inlet end (141) connected to the gas outlet opening (121) and an opposite outlet end (142) in communication with the suction orifice (11a) of the valve plate (11), said hollow muffler body (100) being formed of a lower part (110), presenting an end peripheral edge (117), and a cover upper part (120) carrying the gas outlet opening (121) of the muffler body (100) and including a peripheral lower seating surface portion (127) to be seated onto the end peripheral edge (117) of the lower part
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A -EMBRACO
    Inventors: Gilberto Heinzelmann, Marcio L. Todescat, Dietmar E. B. Lilie
  • Patent number: 5192200
    Abstract: A reed valve for a hermetic compressor, comprising a cylinder block (1) having a pair of opposite faces; a cylinder (C) formed in said cylinder block (1) and housing a piston (2); at least one end plate (3) having an outer face (3a) and an inner face (3b) fixed to one of the opposite faces of the cylinder block (1), in order to close a respective end of the cylinder (C), and being provided with at least one pair of axial gas passages (6, 7) communicating the interior of the cylinder (C) with the outer face (3a) of the end plate (3) through a respective read valve (10), which is fixed to the face (3a) of the end plate (3), to which is opened the outlet end (6b, 7b) of the respective gas passage (6, 7), said valve comprising a blade element (10) with a body being formed of a resin that is preferably plastic and reinforced with fiber filaments (20, 21, 22) spaced from each other according to at least one direction relative to the longitudinal axis of the blade element (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A-Embraco
    Inventors: Dietmar E. B. Lilie, Jose L. Driessen, Marcio L. Todescat, Manfred Krueger
  • Patent number: 5096395
    Abstract: A discharge valve for a reciprocating hermetic compressor of the type comprising a cylinder housing a reciprocally driven piston. A valve plate is mounted on the cylinder and has a discharge orifice the outer face of the valve plate having a recess with a side wall surrounding said discharge orifice and defining a valve seat. A sealing member is axially movable between a closing position against the valve seat. A backstop member is externally attached to the valve plate so as to limit the axial displacement of the opening sealing member. Guide elements for axial displacement of the sealing member are provided around the latter and mounted between the valve plate and the backstop member. There is a resilient deformable means with an end attached to the backstop member and another end opposite to the first one, provided at a plane adjacent to the outer face of the sealing member, opposite to that face sealing against the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A - Embraco
    Inventors: Marcio L. Todescat, Jose L. Driessen, Dietmar E. B. Lilie
  • Patent number: 5088303
    Abstract: A valve for blocking migration of refrigerant in a system including a compressor having an outlet for the compressed refrigerant and an inlet for the refrigerant to be compressed, the valve having a housing with a inlet passage for receiving the compressed refrigerant and an outlet passage, and a piston serving as the valve element which has a through passage for providing communication between the housing inlet and outlet passages when the valve is to be open. A conduit has one end in communication with the compressor case interior, and preferably with the compressor discharge muffler, and the other end with the valve housing. The valve piston is normally biased to a position to close the communication between the housing inlet and outlet passage and the refrigerant pressure when the compressor starts and is operating is conveyed through the conduit to the valve housing to move the piston to a position to open the communication between the housing inlet and outlet passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S.A. - Embraco
    Inventor: Caio Mario F. N. Da Costa
  • Patent number: 5069607
    Abstract: A rotary rolling piston compressor having a hermetic shell in which a cylinder is fixedly mounted. A rolling piston is driven by a crankshaft supported by a bearing pair and carried by the rotor of an electric motor whose stator is fixed internally to the shell. The cylinder has a radial slot in which a vane reciprocates. The vane defines compression and suction chambers, limited axially by the internal faces of the bearings and the chambers having discharge and suction orifices, respectively. The internal face of at least one of the bearings is provided with a groove with one end in communication with the compression chamber and the part on the suction chamber side of the vane in communication with a recess provided on the radial slot surface, on the suction chamber side. The recess extends transversely to the direction of the reciprocating displacement of the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A -Embraco
    Inventor: Caio M. F. N. Da Costa