Compressor for a motor vehicle

Abstract

A compressor for a motor vehicle includes a compressor housing delimiting a compressor interior with respect to the environment. The compressor housing has a first housing part with a first end face and a second housing part with a second end face. The first and second housing parts are fastened to one another with the formation of an overlapping region between the end faces in longitudinal direction, which extends from an end facing the compressor interior to an end facing the environment. An elastically compressible or compressed seal device is arranged in the overlapping region, which extends at least up to or beyond the end of the overlapping region facing the environment.

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         12 . A compressor for a motor vehicle comprising:
 a compressor housing defining a compressor interior and having a first housing part with a first end face and a second housing part with a second end face, wherein the first and second housing parts are fastened to one another to form an overlapping region between the end faces in a longitudinal direction, which extends from an end facing the compressor interior to an end facing an environment; and   an elastically compressible seal device arranged in the overlapping region, which extends at least up to or beyond the end of the overlapping region facing the environment.   
     
     
         13 . The compressor according to  claim 12 , further comprising a support surface section in the overlapping region in at least one of the first and second end faces, wherein the first and second housing part are configured to be supported directly on one another in a support region. 
     
     
         14 . The compressor according to  claim 13 , wherein the support region is arranged between the seal device on the one hand and the end facing the compressor interior of the overlapping region on the other hand. 
     
     
         15 . The compressor according to  claim 12 , wherein the first and second housing parts respectively have a flange section for the formation of the first and second end face, wherein the flange sections have respectively at least one fastening opening for fastening the flange sections on one another. 
     
     
         16 . The compressor according to  claim 15 , wherein the support region is arranged in the region of the fastening openings. 
     
     
         17 . The compressor according to  claim 12 , wherein the seal device comprises a carrier element and at least one sealing element arranged on the carrier element, wherein the sealing element faces the end faces and the carrier element is constructed so as to be harder than the at least one sealing element. 
     
     
         18 . The compressor according to  claim 17 , wherein the carrier element is constructed as a metallic carrier element ( 56 ). 
     
     
         19 . The compressor according to  claim 12 , wherein the seal device is configured in a ring shape. 
     
     
         20 . The compressor according to  claim 12 , wherein the seal device comprises a first sealing section, which is associated with the end of the overlapping region facing the compressor interior, and a second sealing section, which is associated with the end of the overlapping region facing the environment. 
     
     
         21 . The compressor according to  claim 20 , wherein the first and second sealing section are manufactured from different materials such that the first sealing section has a greater resistance with respect to the compressor medium in the compressor interior than the second sealing section, and the second sealing section has a greater resistance with respect to the environmental medium than the first sealing section. 
     
     
         22 . The compressor according to  claim 20 , wherein the first sealing section of the seal device at least in the elastically relaxed state is constructed in longitudinal direction thicker than the second sealing section and the first sealing section extends into a depression in one of the end faces and compressible elastically over a greater compression path than the second sealing section. 
     
     
         23 . The compressor according to  claim 20 , wherein the first sealing section of the seal device is constructed in one piece with the second sealing section of the seal device. 
     
     
         24 . The compressor according to  claim 20 , wherein the first sealing section of the seal device is constructed separately from the second sealing section of the seal device and is arranged spaced apart therefrom. 
     
     
         25 . The compressor according to  claim 12 , wherein the first housing part and the second housing part engage into one another at least partially in longitudinal direction, achieving transverse surfaces, facing one another in transverse direction, of the first and second housing part, wherein a second seal device is arranged between the transverse surfaces in a depression in one of the transverse surfaces. 
     
     
         26 . The compressor according to  claim 12 , wherein the compressor comprises a scroll compressor having a spiral which is held in a target position with respect to the longitudinal direction by fastening the first housing part on the second housing part. 
     
     
         27 . The compressor according to  claim 12 , wherein the compressor comprises a scroll compressor having a spiral which is supported directly on at least one of the first and second housing parts in longitudinal direction.