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US 11,865,895 B2Granted
Accumulator, optionally in combination with an internal heat exchanger in a shared housing
AssigneeHanon Systems
InventorJiri Zapletal
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Abstract
An accumulator in combination with an internal heat exchanger in a shared housing, the accumulator including a cyclone for separation of the gas and liquid phase of a refrigerant, wherein the cyclone includes two separate, curved flow paths, one of which leads from an inlet on the cover side whose direction of flow is closer to the axial than the radial direction of the cyclone into the accumulator and radially outwards, and the other of which leads outwards from an end facing away from the cover.
Claims12
An accumulator comprising:
- a cyclone having a spiral flow path through which a refrigerant flows;
- a housing having an open end and accommodating the cyclone;
- a cover coupled to the open end of the housing and having an inlet for introducing the refrigerant into the cyclone closer to an axial direction than a radial direction of the cyclone,
- a separator accommodated in the housing and separating the refrigerant introduced from the cyclone into a gas phase and a liquid phase;
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- a spiral tube accommodated in the housing and through which a medium for heat exchange with the refrigerant in the gas phase separated in the separator flows;
- wherein the cyclone further comprises:
- two separate, spiral flow paths, a first one of the flow paths leads the refrigerant from the inlet into an inside of the separator and radially outwards, and a second one of the flow paths leads the refrigerant from an end of the cyclone facing away from the cover into the spiral tube.
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An accumulator comprising:
- a cyclone having a spiral flow path through which a refrigerant flows;
- a housing having an open end and accommodating the cyclone;
- a cover coupled to the open end of the housing and having an inlet for introducing the refrigerant into the cyclone closer to an axial direction than a radial direction of the cyclone;
- and
- a separator accommodated in the housing and separating the refrigerant introduced from the cyclone into a gas phase and a liquid phase;
- wherein the cyclone further comprises:
- two separate, spiral flow paths, a first one of the flow paths leads the refrigerant from the inlet into an inside of the separator and radially outwards, and a second one of the flow paths leads the refrigerant from an end of the cyclone facing away from the cover into an accumulator outlet formed in the cover.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.