Patent ID: 9360001
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: F04B,F16K,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A refrigeration compressor of the type which comprises: a compressor block; a valve plate attached to the compressor block and provided with at least one suction orifice; and a suction valve (V) formed, with the same nominal thickness as the valve plate, by a spacer body, provided with a median opening having a continuous inner edge and to be seated on the valve plate, and by a flexible vane, having a peripheral edge with a contour corresponding to the inner edge of the median opening and said flexible vane being formed, along a longitudinal axis (X), by a fixing end portion, to be seated and secured to the valve plate, in the interior of the median opening, a bending median portion and a sealing end portion, operatively associated with the suction orifice, wherein one of the fixing end portion comprises a peripheral edge portions and the median opening comprises an inner edge portions, and wherein the peripheral edge portions are seated against the inner edge portions without a gap between the peripheral edge portions and the inner edge portions and restrict coplanar displacement of the fixing end portion in relation to the spacer body and limit linear and angular displacements, in any direction, of the flexible vane in relation to the spacer body and in the plane of the latter, by the flexible vane being seated against the valve plate, in the interior of said median opening.