Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

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Ube Industries, Inc.

Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd.

Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho Kabushiki Kaisha

Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Kayukawa

Kazuya Kimura

Kenji Takenaka

Hideki Mizutani

Shigeyuki Hidaka

Masaki Ota

Masahiro Kawaguchi

Osamu Hiramatsu

Tetsuhiko Fukanuma

Atsuyuki Morishita

Ken Suitou

Kenji Yamamoto

Manabu Sugiura

Masaki Ohta

Suguru Hirota

Takahiro Hamaoka

Kazushige Murao

Toru Takeichi

Chuichi Kawamura

Masafumi Ito

Yoshihiro Fujisawa

Shinichi Suzuki

Shiro Hayashi

Akihiko Hyodo

Hiroshi Uneyama

Takeshi Imanishi

Toshiro Fujii

Takayuki Kato

Takahiro Moroi

Satoshi Umemura

Minoru Mera

Takuya Okuno

Hiroyuki Nakaima

Kazuhiko Minami

Keiichi Kato

Shigeki Kanzaki

Fuminobu Enokijima

Yoshihiro Makino

Sokichi Hibino

Yoshio Kimoto

Tomohiro Murakami

Yoshitami Kondo

Taro Ozeki

Masanori Akiduki

Koichi Ito

Masakazu Murase

Tatsuya Koide

Takahiro Sugioka

Kazuaki Iwama

Noriyuki Shintoku

Hiroshi Kubo

Takahiro Hoshida

Kiyohiro Yamada

Hajime Kurita

Yuji Kaneshige

Eiji Tokunaga

Shintaro Miura

Hiromi Kitayama

Kenji Mochizuki

Shohei Fujiwara

Takashi Okamoto

Takashi Michiyuki

Toyokazu Yamada

Mitsuru Hashimoto

Kenta Nakauchi

Yusuke Kita

Takashi Kokubo

Soo-Myung Hong

Syogo Muramatsu

Hideki Mitzutani

Naohiko Isomura

Shigeki Kawachi

Takahiro Suqioka

Takehito Tomita

Mitukane Inagaki

Takashi Mitibata

The swash plate type variable displacement compressor includes a rotary shaft, a swash plate, a plurality of pistons, a first rotor, a second rotor, a solenoid and a cone clutch. The second rotor transmits the rotation of the first rotor to the swash plate. The solenoid produces electromagnetic force that acts on the first rotor or the second rotor so that the first rotor and the second rotor move toward each other. The cone clutch is engageable by energization of the solenoid. The cone clutch has a male cone portion and a female cone portion. The male cone portion has a conical surface provided on one of the first rotor and the second rotor. The female cone portion has a conical surface provided on the other. The conical surface of the female cone portion is connectable to and disconnectable from the conical surface of the male cone portion.

Swash plate type variable displacement compressor and method of controlling solenoid thereof

A variable displacement compressor that draws refrigerant from a suction pressure zone and discharges the refrigerant to a discharge pressure zone, and controls displacement according to a pressure in a control pressure chamber. The compressor has a cam body, pistons, a supply passage, a release passage, and an on-off valve. The inclination angle of the cam body is changeable based on the pressure in the control pressure chamber. A piston reciprocates in each cylinder bore as the cam body rotates. The supply passage supplies the refrigerant in the discharge pressure zone to the control pressure chamber. The release passage releases the refrigerant in the control pressure chamber to the suction pressure zone. The on-off valve selectively opens and closes the release passage in response to changes of the temperature. The on-off valve shuts off the release passage when the temperature is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature.

Variable displacement compressor

A variable displacement compressor in which variable control of displacement is effected through adjustment of a crank chamber pressure, includes: a suction port; a suction chamber; a suction passage establishing communication between the suction port and the suction chamber; and an opening control valve arranged in the suction passage and adapted to adjust the opening of the suction passage based on a pressure difference between a suction pressure in the suction port and the crank chamber pressure.

A swash plate type variable displacement compressor includes a cylinder block defining a cylinder bore. A housing is fixed to the cylinder block and defines a crank chamber. A drive shaft is rotatably supported by the housing and the cylinder block. A swash plate is supported by the drive shaft in the crank chamber and is inclinable with respect to the axis of the drive shaft. A piston is accommodated in the cylinder bore so as to define a compression chamber in the cylinder bore and is coupled to the swash plate. A control mechanism includes a bleed passage for controlling the pressure in the crank chamber. The compressor is formed such that lubricating oil in the crank chamber is discharged into at least one of the suction chamber, the discharge chamber and the compression chamber while the inclination angle of the swash plate is substantially a maximum inclination angle.

Swash plate type variable displacement compressor

An apparatus for controlling a variable displacement compressor has an information detector and a controller. The information detector detects information about the thermal load on the refrigeration circuit. The controller determines a target value that reflects the displacement of the compressor based on the information about the thermal load detected by the information detector, and outputs the target value as a command value. When determining that the compressor is in a heavy load state based on information about a load on the compressor, the controller changes the command value to a value that causes the displacement of the compressor to become smaller than a displacement that corresponds to the determined target value.

Apparatus for variable displacement type 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 variable displacement compressor has a drive shaft, a rotor supported by the drive shaft, a drive plate supported by the drive shaft and a hinge mechanism located between the rotor and the drive plate. The hinge mechanism includes a cam, which is located on the rotor, and a guide portion, which is located on the drive plate. The cam has a cam surface, which has a predetermined profile. One of the cam surface and the guide portion slides against the other in accordance with inclination of the drive plate. The guide portion traces a path corresponding to the profile of the cam surface with respect to the cam. The path includes a first path corresponding to a small displacement region of the compressor and a second path corresponding to a large displacement region of the compressor. The profile of the cam surface is determined such that the first path and the second path bulge in a direction opposite to each other to compensate for fluctuation of a top dead center position of the piston.

A piston type compressor includes a housing, which defines a crank chamber. A valve plate forms a part of the housing. A drive shaft is located in the crank chamber. A contact member is plastically deformed and press fitted to the drive shaft. An inner wall and a first sub-plate are located in the housing and limit the axial movement of the drive shaft, respectively. After the contact member is attached to the drive shaft, the axial load required to change the position of the contact member is greater than the maximum axial load applied to the drive shaft due to the increase of the pressure in the crank chamber, and less than the load applied to the contact member by the first sub-plate in accordance with the difference in the thermal expansion coefficient of the housing and the drive shaft.

Means for restricting drive shaft movement for a piston type compressor

A compressor performing a compression action and having a sliding location where one member slides with respect to another member, wherein the sliding portion is formed with sliding layers comprised of a binder comprised of polyetheretherketone and a solid lubricant dispersed in the binder.

Compressor

A swash plate compressor provided with a housing internally defining and forming cylinder bores, a crank chamber, a suction chamber, and a discharge chamber; pistons accommodated in the cylinder bores to be able to reciprocate in them; a drive shaft driven by an external drive source and supported by the housing; a swash plate synchronously rotatably supported with respect to the drive shaft; and shoes at the front and rear of the swash plate for driving the pistons; wherein the shoes are mainly comprised of a magnesium-based material.

Swash plate compressor having shoes made of a magnesium-based material

A variable displacement compressor includes a supply passage for supplying refrigerant gas from a discharge chamber to a crank chamber and a bleed passage for bleeding the refrigerant gas from the crank chamber to a suction chamber. An oil separator is connected to a drive shaft and is located in the bleed passage. The oil separator rotates together with the drive shaft to centrifugally separate lubricant oil from the refrigerant gas that flows in the bleed passage. An oil chamber is formed in a compressor housing for receiving the separated oil. The pressure in the oil chamber is equal to or greater than the pressure in the crank chamber. The lubricant oil rapidly returns to the crank chamber through a return passage.

A piston type compressor has a housing, a crank chamber and a drive shaft supported by the housing. A front restriction and a rear restriction are located in the housing. The front and rear restrictions restrict axial movement of the drive shaft. The front restriction restricts forward movement of the drive shaft. The rear restriction restricts rearward axial movement of the drive shaft. A first clearance is located between the rear end of the drive shaft and the rear restriction when the drive shaft is restricted by the front restriction. A second clearance is formed between the piston and a valve plate when the drive shaft is restricted by the front restriction and when the piston is in the top dead center position. The first clearance is narrower than the second clearance. The method of assembly the piston easily sets the first clearance.

Axial movement restriction means for swash plate compressor and compressor assembly method

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

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