Patent ID: 8096791

Claim:
A suction valve for a small hermetic compressor of the type presenting a compression cylinder, which has an end closed by a valve plate, said valve comprising: a flexible vane comprising: a fixation end portion to be affixed to the valve plate; a bending median portion provided with a median opening aligned with a discharge orifice; and a sealing end portion operatively associated with a suction orifice provided in the valve plate, the median and the sealing end portions of the flexible vane presenting the highest angular displacement thereof: wherein a distance between an external edge of the flexible vane and its adjacent internal edge portion of the median opening diminishes more rapidly in a first portion of a higher bending region of the flexible vane close to the fixation end portion by way of a first curvature of the external edge and progressively in a second portion of the higher bending region of the flexible vane of the valve by way of a second curvature of the external edge from a maximum value, close to the end fixation portion, to a minimum value, close to the boundary of the higher bending region of the flexible vane, wherein the flexible vane is configured to distribute opening forces along the higher bending region, allowing the flexible vane to be bent along the higher bending region in an opening position, wherein the width of the median opening of the flexible vane increases, progressively, from a region adjacent to the fixation end portion to at least the opposite boundary of the higher bending region, whereas the total width of the flexible vane diminishes from the fixation end portion, at an initial portion, and then it begins to progressively increase towards the sealing end portion, from before the opposite boundary of the higher bending portion, wherein the median opening of the flexible vane presents, an oval contour, and with the oval contour at its vertex being tangent with the fixation end portion: and wherein the width (L) of the higher bending region is determined by the equation L/Lo=ax 4 +bx 3 +cx 2 +dx+1, where Lo is the maximum width: the coefficients a, b, c and d are defined according to the rigidity and bending parameters of the flexible vane: and x is the ratio C/Co, where C is measured along the horizontal axis of the higher bending region measured from the boundary of the fixation end portion and Co is the length of the higher bending region.