Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

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Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd.

Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Hideki Mizutani

Kazuya Kimura

Masahiro Kawaguchi

Kenji Yamamoto

Hiroaki Kayukawa

Shigeyuki Hidaka

Kenji Takenaka

Manabu Sugiura

Shiro Hayashi

Toru Takeichi

Suguru Hirota

Hiroyuki Nakaima

Kiyohiro Yamada

Takayuki Kato

Takahiro Sugioka

Minoru Mera

Fuminobu Enokijima

Atsuyuki Morishita

Chuichi Kawamura

Taro Ozeki

Takeshi Imanishi

Masanori Akiduki

Tetsuhiko Fukanuma

Takuya Okuno

Osamu Hiramatsu

Shigeki Kanzaki

Keiichi Kato

Yoshihiro Makino

Sokichi Hibino

Takahiro Hamaoka

Masafumi Ito

Yuji Kaneshige

Tomohiro Murakami

Shintaro Miura

Yoshitami Kondo

Yoshihiro Fujisawa

Akira Onoda

Suehiro Fukazawa

Shino Okubo

Toyokazu Yamada

Syogo Muramatsu

Soo-Myung Hong

Takashi Kokubo

Takehito Tomita

Miyako Asagoe

The present invention is directed to provide a device for reducing pulsation in a variable displacement compressor. The compressor is connected to an external refrigerant circuit. The device for reducing pulsation includes a flow passage and a control valve. The control valve includes a valve housing, a spool valve and a damper chamber. The spool valve has formed therethrough a flow hole. The damper chamber communicates with the flow passage adjacent to the external refrigerant circuit through the flow hole. Effective cross-sectional area and effective length of the flow hole are determined based on frequency of a specific pulsation of the refrigerant gas and volume of the damper chamber at the time of the development of the specific pulsation in such a manner that the specific pulsation is developed, resonance effect of a Helmholtz resonator takes place in the damper chamber.

Device for reducing pulsation in a variable displacement compressor

A piston type compressor includes a housing forming a cylinder bore. A drive shaft is supported by the housing. A cam plate is coupled to the drive shaft and is rotated by the rotation of the drive shaft. A piston is accommodated in the cylinder bore and is coupled to the cam plate. The rotation of the cam plate is converted into the reciprocating movement of the piston. In accordance with the reciprocating movement of the piston, gas is introduced into the cylinder bore, is compressed and is discharged from the cylinder bore. Compression reactive force is generated in compressing the gas by the piston, is transmitted to the housing through a compression reactive force transmission path and is received by the housing. A vibration damping member is made of a predetermined vibration damping alloy and is placed at least one location along the compression reactive force transmission path.

Vibration damping mechanism for piston type compressor

A filter comprises a cylindrical filter body which is disposed in a suction passage , a lid portion which closes an opening positioned in a downstream side of the suction passage in the filter body , communication holes which penetrate through the filter body and communicate the inside of the filter body with the outside thereof, and filter elements which are disposed downstream of the communication holes and the lid portion , in the filter body ; wherein a gap between an outer circumferential surface of the filter body and an inner circumferential surface of the suction passage is closed upstream of the communication holes

Foreign matter removing structure in a fluid circuit and a compressor therewith

A swash plate type variable displacement compressor has a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate and a piston. The housing includes a cylinder block, a front housing, and a rear housing. The drive shaft is rotatably supported by the housing. The swash plate is connected to the drive shaft, and is integrally rotatable with the drive shaft and tiltable relative to the drive shaft. The piston engages with the swash plate through a pair of shoes. Rotation of the drive shaft is converted to reciprocation of the piston through the swash plate and the shoes, and the displacement of the compressor is adjusted by varying the inclination angle of the swash plate with respect to the axis of the drive shaft. The swash plate includes a base member made of copper series and a sliding layer coating a sliding surface of the base member with respect to the shoes.

Swash plate in swash plate type compressor

A single-headed piston type swash plate compressor able to prevent wear of a coating when using a swash plate having a coating on a swash plate substrate to improve the slidability and in turn able to exhibit greater durability, wherein the swash plate is comprised of a swash plate substrate made of a ferrous material and a coating formed on at least one compression chamber side for improving the slidability with the ferrous material and wherein at least one shoe is comprised of a shoe substrate made of an aluminum-based material having a specific gravity smaller than that of the ferrous metal and coatings formed on the surfaces of the shoe substrate for improving the slidability.

Single-headed piston type swash plate compressor

A control valve is used in connection with a variable displacement compressor that varies the discharge capacity by controlling an inclination of a cam plate located in a crank chamber. The inclination of the cam plate is variable based on crank chamber pressure caused by refrigerant in the crank chamber. Monitor pressure is monitored at a predetermined point in a refrigerant circuit for causing a change in the crank chamber pressure and ultimately varying the discharge capacity. The control valve has a housing, an internal control valve mechanism and an external control valve mechanism. The internal control valve mechanism is located inside the valve housing and has a first valve body and a first reacting member. The first reacting member is connected to the first valve body for reacting to the monitor pressure to cause a change in the crank chamber pressure. The external control valve mechanism is located inside the valve housing and has a second valve body and a second reacting member. The second reacting member is for reacting to an external signal to cause the second valve body to change in the crank chamber pressure. The internal control valve mechanism and the external control valve mechanism operate independently with each other.

Compressor control valve with two independently operated check valves, wherein the crank chamber pressure is the control pressure, and the monitor pressure is the suction pressure

A swash plate for a swash plate compressor, wherein aluminum alloy containing 12 to 60% of Si and, as required, 0.1 to 30% of Sn is sprayed onto the iron or aluminum base plate of the swash plate compressor to form a seizure-resisting and abrasion-resisting surface layer dispersed with granulated Si.

Swash-plate of swash-plate type compressor

The seizure resistance of an Al-based flame-sprayed layer formed on the swash plate of a swash-plate type comressor is increased to such a level comparable to that of a flame-sprayed bronze layer. The Al-based flame-sprayed layer of the present invention contains: from 12 to 60% of Si and granular Si particles dispersed in the matrix thereof, and at least one dispersing phase of graphite carbon, amorphous carbon and carbon, the crystallizing degree of which is between the graphite carbon and amorphous carbon, and MoS .

A variable displacement type swash plate compressor that prevents a drive shaft from moving axially when the difference between a crank chamber pressure and a cylinder bore pressure becomes excessive. A hinge mechanism has a support arm extending from a lug plate and a guide pin extends from a swash plate. The head portion of the guide pin fits in a guide hole formed in the support arm. A cutaway surface is formed in a part of the support arm that defines the guide hole. The cutaway surface forms a clearance in the hinge. The clearance permits the swash plate to move without pulling the drive shaft.

Variable displacement type compressor

A variable displacement compressor that varies the gas displacement by controlling the pressure in a crank chamber including a drive shaft, pistons for compressing the gas, and a swash plate. The swash plate is located in the crank chamber and integrally rotates with the drive shaft, and varies the stroke of the pistons. The inclination of the swash plate relative to the drive shaft is varied between maximum and minimum positions. A displacement restoration spring inclines the swash plate. One end of the restoration spring fixed to a predetermined part of the drive shaft.

Variable displacement compressor having displacement controller

A compressor includes swash plate, which is tiltably supported by a drive shaft. The displacement of the compressor changes in accordance with the inclination angle of the swash plate. The minimum inclination angle (&thgr;min) of the swash plate is less than three to five degrees relative to a plane perpendicular to the axis of the drive shaft. The swash plate can be moved from its minimum inclination to increase its angle, despite the small minimum inclination angle, due to a return spring, which urges the swash plate to increase the inclination angle. The return spring positively moves the swash plate in a direction increasing the inclination angle.

Variable displacement type swash plate compressor and displacement control valve

A single-headed piston type swash-plate-operated refrigerant compressor is provided with a swash plate mounted on a rotatable drive shaft and having front and rear opposite surfaces, single headed pistons arranged on the rear side of the swash plate to reciprocate in respective cylinder bores, and front and rear shoes to be held in slide-contact with the peripheral parts of the front and rear surfaces of the swash plate to engage a tail end part of each of the single headed pistons with the swash plate in which the front and rear surfaces of the swash plate are provided with respective uppermost layers having physical surface properties different from one another. A front uppermost and a rear uppermost layer of the swash plate are formed of a sprayed coating of, for example, a copper-base material and the rear uppermost layer is coated by a solid lubricant layer containing a solid lubricant, such as molybdenum disulfide, at least in a part of the solid lubricant. The thickness of the solid lubricant layer is measured and controlled by using the surface of the front layer as a reference plane.

Single-headed piston type swash-plate-operated compressor and a method of producing a swash plate

In a variable displacement compressor of the invention, cylinder bores (111) and a crankcase (121) are formed in a housing, single-ended pistons (37) are fitted in the cylinder bores (111), and a cam plate (23) is provided in the crankcase (121). The displacement capacity of the compressor is varied by controlling the angle of inclination of the cam plate (23) in accordance with the difference between the internal pressure of the crankcase (121) and an suction pressure present on both sides of each single-ended piston (37). A dampening or muffler chamber (65) is provided downstream of an output channel (114) through which a refrigerant gas discharged from the cylinder bores (111) passes. A check valve (69) which opens and closes in accordance with a pressure difference between upstream and downstream sides of the output channel (114) is provided in the output channel (114), upstream of the muffler chamber (65). The present invention reduces the effects of pressure pulsations caused by the compression motion of the compressor and caused by the valve body of the open/close device hunting, has no bad effects on the external refrigerant circuit connected to the compressor, and increases the reliability of the lip seal.

Pressure pulsations reducing compressor

A variable displacement compressor including a housing assembly, a drive shaft rotatably supported in the housing assembly, a cam plate provided at a generally center thereof with a through hole, through which the drive shaft extends, and provided in a wall surface of the through hole with a support portion abutted onto the drive shaft to establish a slidable support for the cam plate on the drive shaft, a joint mechanism for connecting the cam plate with the drive shaft to rotate the cam plate together with the drive shaft, a piston engaged with the cam plate to be reciprocated in a cylinder due to a rotation of the cam plate, a control mechanism for changing an inclination of the cam plate on the drive shaft to adjust a compressor displacement, and a friction reducing coating layer for reducing friction force caused between the drive shaft and the support portion of the cam plate during an operation for adjusting the compressor displacement. The friction reducing coating layer is provided on the wall surface of the through hole to lower a coefficient of friction of the support portion.

Variable displacement compressor

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Hideki Mizutani