Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Teiichi Sato

Manabu Sugiura

Kazuaki Iwama

The durability of a coating layer formed on the sliding surface between two members of a compressor, and the sliding contact between the two members, is kept excellent over a long period of time. In a peripheral portion of a swash plate , a pair of shoes are connected to the swash plate while intervening between the swash plate and a piston . Both the swash plate and the shoes are formed from an iron series material. A film is formed on both surfaces of the peripheral portion of the swash plate , and the shoes slide on the film on the swash plate . The film is a coating layer formed from a resin containing metallic particles. The particle size of the metallic particles is larger than the thickness of the film (e.g., from 10 to 100 &mgr;m), and the surface of the film is made smooth by polishing. The resin functioning as a binder of the metallic particles is formed from, for example, a polyimide resin.

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Ohbu, Japan

Teiichi Sato