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US 11,598,338 B2Granted
Compressor
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHo Choi, Hooi Joong Kim, Hong Taek Lim
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Abstract
A compressor including a shaft, a flange to support shaft, and a muffler to reduce noise generated in a compression chamber of the compressor. The flange including a plurality of noise reductions units each of which is formed to have a different volume and at least a portion of the noise reduction unit is covered by the muffler.
Claims10
A compressor comprising:
- a shaft;
- a flange to support the shaft;
- a cylinder including a compression chamber in which the shaft is insertable and rotatable to suck and compress the refrigerant;
- and
- a muffler to reduce noise generated in the compression chamber and having a contact surface at a circumference of the muffler so as to be coupled to the flange,
- wherein the flange includes a plurality of noise reduction units, each of which is formed to have a different volume, and each of the plurality of noise reduction units includes:
- a connecting portion through which refrigerant with a specific frequency pulsation flows in, and
- a volume portion connected to the connecting portion, and where the volume portion is covered by the contact surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.