Suction noise muffler for hermetic compressor
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsTae Min Kim, Sang Min Lee
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Abstract
A suction noise muffler for a hermetic compressor which is capable of enabling a smooth flow of a refrigerant gas and reducing a suction noise by forming a predetermined shaped refrigerant gas flow guide path and a plurality of noise reducing sections, which includes an upper casing having a rectangular outer wall and a plurality of inner walls arranged within the outer wall, and a lower casing whereby the upper casing is inserted into the lower casing, for thus forming a refrigerant gas flowing path and a plurality of noise reducing sections thereby when assembling the upper casing and lower casing.
Claims10
A suction noise muffler for a hermetic compressor, comprising:
- an upper casing and a lower casing wherein the upper casing and the lower casing are substantially mirror images of each other;
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- each casing comprising an inlet formed at a lower portion of the casing, through which a refrigerant gas is introduced;
- a first noise reducing section formed at the lower portion inside the casing and encircled by a first inner wall, a second inner wall, a second outer wall, and a third outer wall;
- a second noise reducing section formed at an intermediate portion inside the casing and encircled by a third inner wall and a fourth inner wall;
- a third noise reducing section formed at an upper portion inside the casing and encircled by the fourth inner wall and a fifth outer wall;
- a fixing section integrally attached to the fifth outer wall;
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- a guide path formed inside the casing at the inlet and extending to the fixing section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.