Accumulator for air conditioning system

摘要

An accumulator for an automotive air conditioning system having a mechanism for attenuating fluid pressure pulsations and resultant noise from the air conditioning compressor is disclosed. The fluid pressure pulsation attenuating mechanism includes a predetermined number of attenuating zones formed in the outlet tube of the accumulator, each zone having a cross-sectional area of different size than the cross-sectional area of the outlet tube generally.