Patent ID: 8235683
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: F04B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A hermetic compressor comprising a hermetic enclosure of which stores lubricating oil and has a suction piping for making a refrigerant gas flow into the hermetic enclosure, an electromotive element, and a compressing element driven by the electromotive element, wherein the compressing element includes a cylinder block forming a compression chamber, an inlet valve disposed at an end of the compression chamber, a piston reciprocating in and along the compression chamber, and an inlet muffler forming a sound absorbing space communicating with the compression chamber; wherein the inlet muffler includes a hollow body forming the sound absorbing space, an inlet pipe communicating a space inside the hermetic enclosure with the sound absorbing space, and an outlet pipe communicating the sound absorbing space with the inlet valve; wherein the inlet pipe is provided so as to be inclined downward from an inlet-pipe inlet having an opening open into the space inside the hermetic enclosure toward an inlet-pipe outlet having an opening open into the sound absorbing space; wherein the outlet pipe includes an outlet-pipe inlet having an opening open into the sound absorbing space, and an outlet-pipe outlet having an opening open into the inlet valve; and