IP Library Granted Patent US 8,398,385
Granted Patent B2
US 8,398,385 · App. 12/735,252 · Granted Mar 19, 2013

Refrigerant compressor

Inventor: Alfred Freiberger (Grosswilfersdorf, AT)
Assignee: ACC Austria GmbH
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Patent No.
US 8,398,385
App. No.
12/735,252
Granted
Mar 19, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Refrigerant compressor for a hermetically encapsulated small refrigerator, which has a piston ( 20 ) guided in a piston bore ( 3 ) of a cylinder housing ( 1 ), the cylinder housing being frontally terminated using a valve plate ( 7 ) having a pressure opening ( 17 ) and a suction opening ( 16 ) and also being frontally provided with holes ( 5 ), which each have a thread. In order to adapt refrigerant piston compressors having screwed-on cylinder head in such a manner that an energy-efficient redesign of the structure cylinder cover-valve plate-cylinder housing is possible, the changes on the structure required for this purpose simultaneously being minimized, it is provided that a first clamping element ( 11 ), which is screwed into the holes ( 5 ), is provided, which contacts the valve plate ( 7 ) and presses it against the cylinder housing ( 1 ) in the area of at least a section of the piston bore wall ( 14 ) and has a pre-tension in the direction of the valve plate ( 7 ) in the screwed-on state, the clamping element ( 11 ) having a clamping section ( 13 ), which is located above the piston bore wall ( 14 ) in the installed position and has the shape of an imaginary projection of the piston bore wall ( 14 ) on the first clamping element ( 11 ).

Claims (12)

1. A refrigerant compressor for a hermetically encapsulated small refrigerator, which has a piston ( 20 ) guided in a piston bore ( 3 ) of a cylinder housing ( 1 ), the cylinder housing being frontally terminated using a valve plate ( 7 ) having a pressure opening ( 17 ) and a suction opening ( 16 ) and also being frontally provided with holes ( 5 ) each having a thread, wherein a first clamping element ( 11 ), which is screwed into the holes ( 5 ), is provided, which contacts the valve plate ( 7 ) and presses it against the cylinder housing ( 1 ) in the area of at least a section of the piston bore wall ( 14 ) and has a pre-tension in the direction of the valve plate ( 7 ) in the screwed-on state, the first clamping element ( 11 ) having a clamping section ( 13 ), which is located above the piston bore wall ( 14 ) in the installed position and has the shape of an imaginary projection of the piston bore wall ( 14 ) on the first clamping element ( 11 ).

2. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the valve plate ( 7 ) is implemented as round.

3. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the valve plate ( 7 ) has positioning arms ( 32 ), which at least partially encompass fastening screws ( 18 ) screwed into the holes.

4. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the cylinder housing ( 1 ) or the first clamping element ( 11 ) has a recess ( 33 ), whose outline in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder housing ( 1 ) essentially corresponds to the outline of the valve plate ( 7 ), its depth preferably essentially corresponding to the thickness of the valve plate ( 7 ).

5. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 1 , wherein positioning pins ( 36 ) are provided on the first clamping element ( 11 ), which engage in corresponding positioning openings situated on the valve plate ( 7 ).

6. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 1 , wherein positioning pins ( 36 ) are provided on the cylinder housing ( 1 ), which engage in corresponding positioning openings situated on the valve plate ( 7 ).

7. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the first clamping element ( 11 ) has at least one, preferably round release area ( 15 ) within the imaginary projection of the piston bore wall ( 14 ) on the clamping element ( 11 ).

8. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 7 , wherein a second clamping element ( 29 ) screwed into the holes is provided, which clamps components ( 26 , 27 ) of the suction and/or pressure line, which are positioned in the at least one release area ( 15 ), against the valve plate ( 7 ).

9. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 8 , wherein the components ( 26 , 27 ) of the suction and pressure lines have depressions ( 30 , 31 ) on their side facing toward the second clamping element ( 29 ), which jointly correspond in their outlines to at least the section of the outline of the second clamping element ( 29 ).

10. The refrigerant piston compressor according to claim 8 , wherein first clamping element ( 11 ) and second clamping element ( 29 ) are manufactured in one piece.

11. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 8 , wherein the first clamping element ( 11 ) has passages ( 37 ), through which the suction line component ( 26 ) and the pressure line component ( 27 ) are guided to the suction openings ( 16 ) or to the pressure opening ( 17 ) of the valve plate ( 7 ).

12. The refrigerant compressor according to claim 8 , wherein the cross-section of the suction line component ( 26 ) and the pressure line component ( 27 ) is dimensioned so that it is at least sectionally contacted when penetrating the passages ( 37 ) on its top side by the first clamping element ( 11 ) and on its bottom side by the valve plate ( 7 ), in order to transmit clamping force from the second clamping element ( 29 ) to the valve plate ( 7 ).

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 29, 2016
From: SECOP AUSTRIA GMBH
To: SECOP GMBH
Reel/Frame 039036/0910 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 14, 2014
From: ACC AUSTRIA GMBH
To: SECOP AUSTRIA GMBH
Reel/Frame 032436/0111 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Mar 14, 2014
From: SECOP AUSTRIA GMBH
To: SECOP AUSTRIA GMBH
Reel/Frame 032447/0729 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 25, 2010
From: FREIBERGER, ALFRED
To: ACC AUSTRIA GMBH
Reel/Frame 024613/0377 →
Priority Claims (1)
AT GM764/2007 · Dec 27, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20100290939A1 · Nov 18, 2010