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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2001
Marcos Guilherme Schwarz, Joinville,. SC, BR;
Egidio Berwanger, Joinville,. SC, BR;
Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S/A Embraco, Joinville, BR;
Abstract
An improvement in a starting system for an electric motor, which drives a hermetic compressor of refrigeration and comprises a main winding ( ), and an auxiliary winding ( ), which are energized by an electric current source ( ), through a hermetic terminal ( ) affixed to the outside of the compressor shell, the auxiliary winding ( ) having a terminal connected to the electric current source ( ) through a starting device ( ) mounted inside the compressor shell and in series with a fusible element ( ) to be opened when submitted to an electric current, in order to definitively interrupt the energization of the auxiliary winding ( ) by means of the starting device ( ), said hermetic terminal ( ) being designed to receive an external starting device ( ), in order to promote the selective connection between said other terminal of the auxiliary winding ( ) and the electric current source ( ) upon the definitive opening of the circuit defined by the fusible element ( ) and the starting device ( ).