Accumulator
Provided is an accumulator capable of effectively suppressing a bumping phenomenon and the following impact noise during the starting of a compressor without making the structure of the accumulator complicated or increasing the cost and the size thereof, and so having cost-effectiveness. An accumulator includes: a tank 10 having an inflow port 15 and an outflow port 16; and a double-pipe structured outflow pipe 30 including an inner pipe 31 joined to the outflow port 16 and hanging inside of the tank 10, and an outer pipe 32 disposed outside of the inner pipe 31. A cloth-like member such as felt or a foam material 60 is wound around or externally inserted to the outer pipe 32.
1. An accumulator comprising:
a tank having an inflow port and an outflow port therein, the tank being configured to store a liquid inside including liquid-phase refrigerant and oil accumulated in the tank; and
a double-pipe structured outflow pipe arranged in the tank, the double-pipe structured outflow pipe including an inner pipe joined to the outflow port and an outer pipe disposed radially outside of the inner pipe, the outer pipe having a length extended in axial direction inside the tank so that the outer pipe is at least partially submerge in the liquid stored in the tank, wherein
a cloth-like member or a foam material is externally attached around the outer pipe along an entirety of the length of the outer pipe, the cloth-like member or the form material having an inner surface facing the outer pipe and an outer surface, opposite to the inner surface, being exposed to and in contact with the liquid-phase refrigerant stored in the tank, wherein the cloth-like member or the foam material functions to slow down vaporization of the liquid-phase refrigerant stored in the tank and prevent the liquid-phase refrigerant in the tank from explosively evaporating.
2. The accumulator according to claim 1 , wherein the liquid stored in the tank has a phase therein at which bumping of the liquid is occurable, the phase being changeable in the tank within a range, and the outer pipe is extensive in the axial direction inside the tank so that the cloth-like member or the foam material externally attached around the outer pipe is axially extensive in the tank long enough to include the range within which the phase of the liquid is changeable in its height in the tank.
3. The accumulator according to claim 1 , wherein the cloth-like member is provided with a desiccant storage part to store desiccant to absorb and remove water in refrigerant in the tank.
4. The accumulator according to claim 3 , wherein the desiccant storage part is disposed vertically outside of the outer pipe.
5. The accumulator according to claim 3 , wherein the desiccant storage part is disposed on a side of the outer pipe closer to a first imaginary line vertically extended in the tank from the inflow port than a second imaginary line vertically extended in the tank from the outflow port.