Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Takashi Okamoto

Katsunori Kawai

Hiroaki Kayukawa

Hayato Ikeda

Kenji Takenaka

Mitsuhiro Hattori

Atsushi Fukaya

Akihiko Hyodo

Shinichi Ishihara

Masayuki Tanikawa

Hitoshi Inuka

A valve assembly in a piston type refrigerant compressor is disclosed. The valve assembly includes a retainer formed integrally with a gasket plate for restricting the opening of a discharge reed valve of the compressor, and having on opposite sides at the distal portion thereof stay portions integral with the gasket plate for rigidly holding the retainer. According to the present invention, provision is made to guide some part of the refrigerant gas compressed in a cylinder bore to be discharged into a discharge chamber in such a way that the influence of the discharge gas pressure on the retainer at its distal end is reduced. In some embodiments of the invention, this is accomplished by guiding and allowing part of the gas to flow toward the proximal portion of the retainer to discharge the gas.

Valve assembly in a piston type compressor

A swash plate type compressor having axially spaced inlet chambers and outlet chambers located on the side of angularly spaced pistons having each side thereof pump chambers which are connected to inlet chamber when the medium is introduced into the pump chambers, and are connected to the outlet chamber when the medium is removed to the outlet chambers. A swash plate chamber is arranged inside the cylinder block and cooperates with the pistons via respective shoes for reciprocating the pistons in the respective cylinder bores. An inlet of the fluid to be compressed is opened to the swash plate chamber at a circumferential position along the inner wall of the swash plate chamber. Communication passageways for connection of the swash plate chamber with the inlet chambers are arranged on position spaced farthest from the inlet port. The flow of the lubrication oil contained in the gas to be compressed is generated inside the swash plate chamber and comes into contact with all of the shoes, to lubricate same, before being introduced into the communication passageway from the swash plate chamber.

Swash plate type compressor

A thrust bearing assembly of a wobble plate type refrigerant compressor for supporting a non-rotatable inclined wobble plate on a rotatable drive element which rotates with a drive shaft, and having a inclined drive face able to convert a rotating motion of the drive element into a wobbling motion of the wobble plate to thereby cause a reciprocation of compression pistons in cylinder bores, the thrust bearing assembly having a plurality of roller elements, an annular retainer elements holding the roller elements therein and rotating in a space between the drive face of the drive element and an inclined face of the wobble plate confronting the drive face, a pair of race elements attached to the drive and inclined faces of the drive element and the wobble plate to provide raceways for rolling of the roller elements, and a circumferentially extended guide way element supplying the annular retainer elements with a constant slide guide during the operation of the compressor irrespective of a change in the operating speed and compression ratio of the compressor.

Wobble plate type refrigerant compressor having a thrust bearing

An anti-rolling structure for a double headed piston of a disc cam type reciprocative compressor, comprising a cylinder block (1) through which a plurality of pairs of front and rear cylinder bores (4) are provided in parallel to a drive shaft (3) rotatably secured in the center of the cylinder block (1), and a double headed piston (8) slidably inserted in the respective pair of cylinder bores (4) for reciprocation in the longitudinal direction. A disc cam (13) having opposite sinuous surfaces (13') and rotatably accommodated within a cam chamber (5) is fixedly secured to the drive shaft (3), and a pair of front and rear cam rollers (14F, 14R) are arranged between the disc cam (13) and the piston (8) in a slidable and rotatable manner so as to nip the disc cam (13) between both cam rollers (14F, 14R) to transmit the rotation of the disc cam (13) to the piston (8) as a reciprocation in the longitudinal direction thereof. The front and rear cam rollers (14F, 14R) are positioned so that the axes of rotation thereof are not included in the center plane defined by longitudinal axes of the piston (8) and the disc cam (13) but disposed, respectively, in the opposite areas sectioned by the center plane with a substantially equal deviation from each other from the center plane. According to the above structure, the rolling motion of the piston (8) can be effectively restricted throughout the operation of the compressor.

Anti-rolling structure for double headed piston of disc cam type

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Kariya, Japan

Takashi Okamoto