CN213687383U - Liquid storage device - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a liquid storage device, which comprises a liquid storage cylinder and a filtering component, wherein a liquid storage space is formed inside the liquid storage cylinder; the filter assembly comprises a first clamping piece, a second clamping piece and a filter screen, the filter screen is fixedly arranged between the first clamping piece and the second clamping piece, the first clamping piece is fixedly connected with the second clamping piece, and the filter assembly is fixedly arranged in the liquid storage space. The liquid storage device provided by the utility model can reliably fix the filtering component and the inner wall of the liquid storage device cylinder body, and prevent the risk that the filtering component loosens and shakes or even falls off relative to the liquid storage cylinder body due to shaking or vibration of the liquid storage device, so as to avoid the failure of the liquid storage device in filtering refrigerant impurities, and therefore, the liquid storage device can better operate under severe operating conditions; in addition, the bending deformation resistance and the strength of the filter assembly are improved, scrappage caused by deformation and damage of the filter assembly due to misoperation during assembly of the filter screen and the liquid storage cylinder can be reduced, and the production cost of the liquid storage device is favorably reduced.

Description

Liquid storage device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an air conditioner heat transfer technical field especially relates to a reservoir.

Background

The accumulator is a device arranged in a refrigerant circulation flow path of the air conditioner and is used for returning and storing the refrigerant within a certain time. The filter screen used by the existing liquid accumulator cannot be well fixed with the inner wall of the liquid accumulator cylinder, and in some use occasions, the liquid accumulator can shake or vibrate along with the operation of a compressor, so that the filter screen is loosened, deformed or even dropped relative to the liquid accumulator cylinder, and the liquid accumulator fails to filter refrigerant impurities; in addition, the filter screen is possibly deformed and damaged due to manual misoperation in the process of assembling the filter screen and the liquid storage device barrel, the rejection rate of the filter screen is increased, and the production cost is improved.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of the above, there is a need for an improved reservoir.

The utility model provides a liquid storage device, which comprises a liquid storage cylinder and a filtering component, wherein a liquid storage space is formed inside the liquid storage cylinder, and the filtering component is fixedly arranged in the liquid storage space; the filter assembly comprises a first clamping piece, a second clamping piece and a filter screen, wherein the first clamping piece is fixedly connected with the second clamping piece, and the filter screen is fixedly arranged between the first clamping piece and the second clamping piece.

In one embodiment, the circumferential edges of the first clamping part and/or of the second clamping part are arranged closed.

By the arrangement, the bending resistance of the filter assembly is further improved, the overall strength is better, and the edge part is not easy to wrinkle and deform; in addition, when the circumferential edges of the first clamping piece and the second clamping piece are closed, the clamping and fixing effects of the first clamping piece and the second clamping piece on the filter screen are better, and the local edge of the filter screen is prevented from shrinking or being fixed badly.

In one embodiment, the first clamping piece and the second clamping piece are fixed by welding; or the first clamping piece, the second clamping piece and the filter screen are welded and fixed.

So set up, the filter assembly is more firm can be guaranteed to welded fastening's mode, and unexpected pine can not appear taking off or warp for long-term the use.

In one embodiment, the first clamping member and/or the second clamping member is fixedly connected to the inner circumferential wall of the reservoir.

By the arrangement, the filter assembly is more convenient to mount, can be mounted and dismounted in a mode of plugging and unplugging the filter assembly along the axial direction of the liquid storage cylinder, can increase the filtering area of the filter assembly and improve the filtering effect on impurity fragments in the refrigerant; in addition, the fixing effect of the filter assembly in the liquid storage cylinder is better, the filter assembly is not easy to loosen and shake, and the shock resistance of the filter assembly is improved.

In one embodiment, at least one of the first clamping member and the second clamping member is provided with a clamping piece, and the clamping piece is attached to the inner peripheral wall of the liquid storage barrel.

So set up, further improved the fixed reliability of filter component in the liquid storage cylinder to increased the fixed area of contact between filter component and the internal perisporium of liquid storage cylinder, can prevent the pine of filter component in the liquid storage cylinder better and take off and rock, and improve its shock resistance.

In one embodiment, one of the first clamping piece and the second clamping piece is provided with a positioning protrusion, the other one of the first clamping piece and the second clamping piece is correspondingly provided with a positioning groove, and the positioning protrusion and the positioning groove can be correspondingly matched and fixed.

So set up, before in installation filter assembly to the liquid storage barrel, can be earlier through the cooperation between positioning groove and location arch, press from both sides the filter screen in advance and tightly fix between first clamping piece and second clamping piece, avoid first clamping piece and second clamping piece to lead to misplacing each other because of the disturbance to make the filter screen incline, be favorable to the subsequent welding of first clamping piece and second clamping piece or splice the step.

In one embodiment, the filter assembly extends from one end of the cartridge to the opposite end.

So set up, filtering component is more convenient for install at the liquid storage cylinder or dismantle from the liquid storage cylinder with the mode of plug, compares in traditional liquid storage cylinder butt joint in the filter screen of liquid storage cylinder internal perisporium, and filtering component's filter area is bigger, and is fixed reliable be difficult for rocking.

In one embodiment, the filter assembly extends into the reservoir space along the axis of the cartridge.

So set up, the location of filter component in the liquid storage cylinder is more accurate, and plug dismouting process is easy to operate more.

In one embodiment, the filter component abuts against the inner wall of at least one end of the liquid storage cylinder.

So set up, can show the fixed reliability who promotes filtering component, the tip inner wall of liquid storage cylinder also can play the limiting displacement to filtering component.

In one embodiment, the filter assembly is planar in shape; or the shape of the filtering component is a curved surface; alternatively, the filter assembly is shaped as a pleated face.

By the arrangement, the planar filter assembly has better rigidity and is firmly fixed; the filter assembly with the curved surface or the folded surface has larger filtering area and better filtering effect on impurity debris in the refrigerant.

The liquid storage device provided by the utility model can reliably fix the filtering component and the inner wall of the liquid storage device barrel, and prevent the risk that the filtering component loosens and shakes or even falls off relative to the liquid storage barrel due to shaking or vibration of the liquid storage device, so as to avoid the failure of the liquid storage device in filtering refrigerant impurities, and the liquid storage device can better operate under severe operating conditions; in addition, the bending deformation resistance and the strength of the filter assembly are improved, the rejection phenomenon caused by deformation and damage of the filter assembly due to misoperation during assembly of the filter screen and the liquid storage cylinder can be reduced, and the production cost of the liquid storage device is favorably reduced.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a reservoir according to an embodiment of the present invention at a first viewing angle;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a reservoir at a second viewing angle according to an embodiment of the present invention.

100. A reservoir; 10. a liquid storage cylinder; 11. a reservoir space; 20. a filter assembly; 21. a first clamping member; 22. a second clamping member; 23. a filter screen; 30. an inlet pipe; 40. an outlet pipe.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work all belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein in the description of the invention is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "or/and" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a liquid reservoir according to an embodiment of the present invention; fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a filter assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The utility model provides a liquid storage device 100 which can be arranged in a refrigerant circulation loop of air conditioning equipment and is used for supplying refrigerant to flow back and storing the refrigerant within a certain time, comprising a liquid storage cylinder 10, wherein a liquid storage space 11 for containing the refrigerant is formed inside the liquid storage cylinder; in addition, the accumulator 100 is provided with an inlet pipe 30 and an outlet pipe 40 respectively communicating with the air-conditioning refrigerant circulation circuit, for respectively implementing the inlet and discharge of the refrigerant. The inlet pipe 30 and the outlet pipe 40 may be connected to the end or the side of the liquid storage cylinder 10 according to the arrangement of the liquid storage cylinder 100 in actual use, so as to realize the flow of the refrigerant in different directions in the liquid storage cylinder 10, respectively.

The filter screen used by the existing liquid accumulator cannot be well fixed with the inner wall of the liquid accumulator cylinder, and in some use occasions, the liquid accumulator can shake or vibrate along with the operation of a compressor, so that the filter screen is loosened, deformed or even dropped relative to the liquid accumulator cylinder, and the liquid accumulator fails to filter refrigerant impurities; in addition, the filter screen is possibly deformed and damaged due to manual misoperation in the process of assembling the filter screen and the liquid storage device barrel, the rejection rate of the filter screen is increased, and the production cost is improved.

In view of this, the utility model provides a reservoir 100 still includes filter assembly 20, including first clamping piece 21, second clamping piece 22 and filter screen 23, filter screen 23 is fixed to be set up between first clamping piece 21 and second clamping piece 22 for the impurity piece in filtering and the adhesion refrigerant, first clamping piece 21 and second clamping piece 22 fixed connection, in order to realize the tight fixed of clamp to filter screen 23, filter assembly 20 wholly sets firmly in stock solution space 11, relative reservoir 100 internal face is fixed.

The following description will be given with reference to specific embodiments of the present invention (hereinafter, referred to as "embodiments"). In the present embodiment, the shape of the filter assembly 20 is the same or substantially the same as the shape of the longitudinal middle plane of the liquid storage cylinder 10, specifically, the outer edge shapes of the first clamping member 21 and the second clamping member 22 are matched with the shape of the filter screen 23, and are rectangular or rectangular-like. In the filter assembly 20 formed by combining the three components, two oppositely arranged edges can abut against the inner peripheral wall of the liquid storage cylinder 10, that is, the shape of the filter assembly 20 is matched with the shape of an inner cavity obtained by axially sectioning the liquid storage cylinder 10, so that the refrigerant entering the liquid storage 100 can filter out internal foreign debris after flowing through the filter assembly 20 along the direction perpendicular to the axis of the liquid storage cylinder 10.

In particular, the filter assembly 20 of the present embodiment is detachably mounted in the liquid storage cylinder 10, and the first clamping member 21, the second clamping member 22 and the filter screen 23 can be integrally detached or mounted with respect to the liquid storage cylinder 10, so as to facilitate cleaning and debris removal of the liquid storage cylinder 100.

It should be noted that, for convenience of description, the following description that the filter element 20 abuts against the liquid storage cylinder 10 means that the filter element 20 as a whole abuts against the inner wall surface of the liquid storage cylinder 10 through the first clamping member 21 and/or the second clamping member 22, and therefore, the description thereof is not repeated.

The filtering assembly 20 adopted in the embodiment is more convenient to mount, the filtering assembly 20 can be mounted and dismounted in a mode of plugging and unplugging the filtering assembly 20 along the axial direction of the liquid storage cylinder 10, the filtering area of the filtering assembly 20 can be increased, and the filtering effect on impurity fragments in the refrigerant is improved; in addition, the fixing effect of the filter assembly 20 in the liquid storage cylinder 10 is better, the filter assembly 20 is not easy to loosen and shake, and the shock resistance is improved.

As the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the filtering assembly 20 extends to the other end along one end of the liquid storage cylinder 10, which not only can realize the flow of the refrigerant along the radial direction of the liquid storage cylinder 10, but also is beneficial to the installation or the disassembly of the filtering assembly 20 in the plug-in manner. In this embodiment, the filter assembly 20 is planar and extends from one end of the liquid storage cylinder 10 to the opposite end along the axial direction of the liquid storage cylinder 10, and in other embodiments, the filter assembly 20 may also extend from one end of the liquid storage cylinder 10 to the other end along other directions, for example, may extend along a straight line forming an offset angle with the axial direction of the liquid storage cylinder 10, or may extend along a curved line or a curved surface.

Specifically, in these extended embodiments, the shape of the filter assembly 20 may be a plane, a curved surface, or a folded surface that is not parallel to the axis of the liquid storage cylinder 10, or may be other non-planar shapes, and when the shape of the filter assembly 20 is non-planar, the filtering area for filtering out foreign debris may be further increased, so as to improve the filtering effect. The filter unit 20 may be formed by combining the curved filter mesh 23 with the planar first clamping member 21 and the planar second clamping member 22, or may be formed by combining the curved filter mesh 23 with the curved first clamping member 21 and the curved second clamping member 22.

It will be appreciated that in other embodiments, the filter assembly 20 may be configured to conform to the cross-sectional shape of the liquid cartridge 10, i.e., the shape of the interior cavity cut along the radial direction of the liquid cartridge 10, thereby allowing refrigerant to flow through the filter assembly 20 along the axial direction of the liquid cartridge 10.

Further, in the present embodiment, the circumferential edge of at least one of the first clamping member 21 and the second clamping member 22 is disposed in a closed manner, that is, at least one of the first clamping member 21 and the second clamping member 22 forms a closed rectangular frame structure. Preferably, in practical applications, the circumferential edges of both are closed.

With the arrangement, the bending resistance of the filter assembly 20 is further improved, the overall strength is better, and the edge part is not easy to wrinkle and deform; in addition, when the circumferential edges of the first clamping piece 21 and the second clamping piece 22 are closed, the clamping and fixing effects of the first clamping piece and the second clamping piece on the filter screen 23 are better, and the local edge shrinkage or poor fixing of the filter screen 23 is prevented.

Of course, in other embodiments, the first clamping member 21 and the second clamping member 22 may be provided in a structure in which the circumferential edge portions are opened.

Further, in the present embodiment, the first clamping member 21 and the second clamping member 22 are fixed by welding. Preferably, in practical applications, all three of the first clamping member 21, the second clamping member 22 and the filter mesh 23 are welded and fixed. The specific welding mode may be resistance welding, or argon arc welding along the edges of the first clamping member 21 and the second clamping member 22. It is understood that in other embodiments, the first clamping member 21 and the second clamping member 22 may be fixed by gluing, clamping, riveting, etc., as long as they can clamp the filter screen 23.

Further, in order to better ensure the fixed connection between the filter assembly 20 and the liquid storage cylinder 10, the first clamping member 21 and/or the second clamping member 22 are fixed to the inner circumferential wall of the liquid storage cylinder 10 in a tight fit manner, at least one of the two clamping members is provided with a clamping piece (not shown), and the clamping piece is integrally formed with the first clamping member 21 or the second clamping member 22 and is bent in advance to form a certain angle relative to the edge of the filter assembly 20. When installing filter assembly 20, at first to the moderate degree elasticity of clamp plate buckle and produce the micro-deformation to stretch into liquid storage cylinder 10 with filter assembly 20, then the clamp plate butt and laminate in the internal perisporium of liquid storage cylinder 10 under the elastic action of self.

So set up, further improved the fixed reliability of filter assembly 20 in liquid storage barrel 10 to increased the fixed area of contact between filter assembly 20 and the interior perisporium of liquid storage barrel 10, can prevent the pine of filter assembly 20 in liquid storage barrel 10 better and take off and rock, and improve its shock resistance.

Further, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, one of the first clamping member 21 and the second clamping member 22 is provided with a positioning protrusion, and the other is correspondingly provided with a positioning groove, and the positioning protrusion and the positioning groove can be correspondingly matched and fixed. When the first clamping piece 21 and the second clamping piece 22 are butted and fixed, the positioning protrusions can be embedded into the positioning grooves together with the edge of the filter screen 23 contacted with the positioning protrusions.

So set up, before in installation filter assembly 20 to liquid storage barrel 10, can be earlier through the cooperation between positioning groove and location arch, press from both sides tightly in advance filter screen 23 and fix between first clamping piece 21 and second clamping piece 22, avoid first clamping piece 21 and second clamping piece 22 to lead to misplacing each other because of the disturbance to make filter screen 23 skew, be favorable to the subsequent welding or the glueing step of first clamping piece 21 and second clamping piece 22.

Further, in some embodiments, the filter element 20 abuts against an inner wall of one end of the liquid storage cylinder 10, or the filter element 20 abuts against inner walls of two opposite ends of the liquid storage cylinder 10, so that the fixing reliability of the filter element 20 is significantly improved, and the inner wall of the end of the liquid storage cylinder 10 can also play a role in limiting the filter element 20.

The utility model provides a liquid storage device 100, can make filter assembly 20 and 100 barrel inner walls of liquid storage device form reliable fixed, prevent because of the rocking or the vibration of liquid storage device 100 cause filter assembly 20 relative liquid storage tube 10 pine shake or even the risk that drops to avoid liquid storage device 100 to the filtration inefficacy of refrigerant impurity, therefore liquid storage device 100 can be better under abominable operating condition; in addition, the bending deformation resistance and the strength of the filter assembly 20 are improved, so that the rejection phenomenon caused by deformation and damage of the filter assembly 20 due to misoperation during assembly of the filter screen 23 and the liquid storage cylinder 10 can be reduced, and the production cost of the liquid storage device 100 can be reduced.

The features of the above-described embodiments may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the features in the above-described embodiments are not described, but should be construed as being within the scope of the present disclosure as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the features.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the above embodiments are only for illustrating the present invention and are not to be taken as limiting the present invention, and that suitable modifications and variations of the above embodiments are within the scope of the invention as claimed.

Claims (10)

1. The liquid storage device is characterized by comprising a liquid storage cylinder (10) and a filtering component (20), wherein a liquid storage space (11) is formed inside the liquid storage cylinder (10), and the filtering component (20) is fixedly arranged in the liquid storage space (11); the filter assembly (20) comprises a first clamping piece (21), a second clamping piece (22) and a filter screen (23), wherein the first clamping piece (21) is fixedly connected with the second clamping piece (22), and the filter screen (23) is fixedly arranged between the first clamping piece (21) and the second clamping piece (22).

2. Reservoir according to claim 1, characterized in that the circumferential edges of the first clamping member (21) and/or of the second clamping member (22) are arranged closed.

3. Reservoir according to claim 1, characterized in that the first clamp (21) and the second clamp (22) are fixed by welding; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the first clamping piece (21), the second clamping piece (22) and the filter screen (23) are welded and fixed.

4. Reservoir according to claim 1, characterized in that the first clamping member (21) and/or the second clamping member (22) are fixedly connected to the inner circumferential wall of the cartridge (10).

5. Reservoir according to claim 4, characterized in that at least one of said first clamping member (21) and said second clamping member (22) is provided with a clamping tab, which abuts against an inner peripheral wall of said reservoir (10).

6. Reservoir according to claim 1, characterized in that one of the first clamping member (21) and the second clamping member (22) is provided with a positioning projection, and the other one is correspondingly provided with a positioning groove, and the positioning projection and the positioning groove can be correspondingly matched and fixed.

7. Reservoir according to claim 1, characterized in that the filter assembly (20) extends from one end of the cartridge (10) to the opposite end.

8. Reservoir according to claim 7, characterized in that the filter assembly (20) extends in the axial direction of the cartridge (10) into the reservoir space (11).

9. Reservoir according to claim 7, characterized in that said filtering assembly (20) abuts against the inner wall of at least one end of said cartridge (10).

10. Reservoir according to claim 1, characterized in that said filtering assembly (20) is shaped as a plane; alternatively, the shape of the filter assembly (20) is a curved surface; alternatively, the filter assembly (20) is in the shape of a folded surface.

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