Patent ID: 8133038

Claim:
A hermetic compressor comprising of: a frame; a cylinder provided at one side of the frame and having a compression chamber; a cylinder head coupled to the cylinder so as configured to hermetically seal the compression chamber and having a refrigerant discharge chamber to receive a refrigerant discharged from the compression chamber; a damping discharge chamber provided at the other side of the frame configured to reduce pressure pulsation of the refrigerant having passed through the refrigerant discharge chamber; a discharge guide path formed in the frame connecting the refrigerant discharge chamber and the damping discharge chamber; a discharge pipe having an entrance end connected to the damping discharge chamber so as to guide the refrigerant, having passed through the damping discharge chamber, to outside of the hermetic compressor; and a compressible extension tube provided in the damping discharge chamber, having an entrance end connected to an exit end of the discharge guide path and an exit end of the extension tube being spaced apart from an entrance end of the discharge pipe and being pressed against an inner surface of the damping discharge chamber to compress the extension tube in the damping discharge chamber, and at least a portion of the extension tube being bendable.