Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Toru Takeichi

Shigeyuki Hidaka

Hiroaki Kayukawa

Kazuya Kimura

Kenji Takenaka

Hideki Mizutani

Takayuki Kato

Hayato Ikeda

Osamu Hiramatsu

Takahiro Sugioka

Noriyuki Shintoku

Seiji Katayama

Chuichi Kawamura

Masaki Ohta

Masanobu Yokoi

Masato Takamatsu

Shigeo Fukushima

Motonobu Kawakami

Soukichi Hibino

Tetsuya Takashima

Masaaki Taga

A swash plate ( ) included in a swash plate type compressor for compressing a refrigerant is made of an aluminum alloy as a base material. Sliding contact surfaces ( ) of the swash plate ( ) in sliding contact with shoes ( ) linking the swash plate ( ) to pistons ( ) are coated with a film of a solid lubricant containing at least one lubricating material selected from molybdenum disulfide, tungsten disulfide and graphite by a transfer method. Therefore, the performance of the film and the productivity thereof are improved.

Swash plate type compressor

A piston for a compressor. The piston has a lubricating coating that slidably contacts with an inner surface of the cylinder bore. The layer is formed on the surface of the piston. The layer is formed by transferring a liquid material to the surface of the piston using printing techniques such as screen printing and roller coating.

Pistons for compressors and method and apparatus for coating the pistons

An axial multi-piston compressor includes a drive shaft, a cylinder block having cylinder bores formed therein and surrounding the drive shaft, and a plurality of pistons slidably received in the respective cylinder bores, wherein the pistons are successively reciprocated in the cylinder bores by a rotation of the drive shaft so that a suction stroke and a discharge stroke are alternately executed in each of the cylinder bores. During the suction stroke, a fluid is introduced into the cylinder bore, and during the compression stroke, the introduced fluid is compressed and discharged from the cylinder bore such that a residual part of the compressed fluid is inevitably left in the cylinder bore when the compression stroke is finished. The compressor further includes a rotary valve for allowing the residual part of the compressed fluid to escape from the cylinder bore into another cylinder bore governed by the compression stroke.

Axial multi-piston compressor having rotary valve for allowing residual

Control valve for a variable displacement refrigerant compressor

Swash plate type variable displacement compressor

A reciprocating-piston-type refrigerant compressor provided with a cylinder block having formed therein a plurality of cylinder bores in which a plurality of pistons are reciprocated to effect suction, compression and discharge of refrigerant gas in response to rotation of a drive shaft, a rotary valve element connected to the drive shaft to be rotated together with the drive shaft within a recessed chamber formed in the cylinder block, the valve element having an outer circumference in sliding contact with the inner wall of the recessed chamber and a suction passageway for sequentially introducing the refrigerant gas before compression into the plurality of cylinder bores during the rotation of the rotary valve element. A sealing mechanism is provided between opposite ends of the outer circumference of the rotary valve element and the inner wall of the recessed chamber to prevent the compressed refrigerant gas from leaking from the contact area of the rotary valve element and the inner wall of the recessed chamber toward a low pressure region of the compressor during rotation of the rotary valve element.

Reciprocating-piston type refrigerant compressor with an improved

An axial multi-piston compressor includes a drive shaft, a cylinder block having cylinder bores formed therein and surrounding the drive shaft, and a plurality of pistons slidably received in the respective cylinder bores, wherein the pistons are successively reciprocated in the cylinder bores by a rotation of the drive shaft so that a suction stroke and a discharge stroke are alternately executed in each of the cylinder bores. During the suction stroke, a fluid is introduced into the cylinder bore concerned, and during the compression stroke, the introduced fluid is compressed and discharged from the cylinder bore concerned, such that a residual part of the compressed fluid is inevitably left in the cylinder bore concerned when the compression stroke is finished. The compressor further includes a rotary valve for allowing the residual part of the compressed fluid to escape from the cylinder bore concerned into two other cylinder bores disposed adjacent to each other and subjected to the compression stroke.

In a swash-plate compressor, pistons are slidably received in cylinder bores. A drive shaft is extended through a crank chamber, and is rotated through an electromagnetic clutch means associated therewith. A conversion mechanism is provided on the shaft for converting a rotational movement of the shaft into a reciprocation of each piston in the corresponding cylinder bore such that a suction stroke and a discharge stroke are alternately executed therein. A fluid is introduced from a suction chamber into the bore during the suction stroke, and during the compression stroke, the fluid is compressed in and discharged from the bore into a discharge chamber. The conversion mechanism is constituted such that a stroke length is shortened in response to an increase of a pressure in the crank chamber, and vice versa. A first passage communicates the crank with the suction chamber, and a second passage communicates the crank chamber with the discharge chamber. A control valve is provided in one of the first or second passage, and is magnetically actuated by the clutch for controlling the pressure in the crank chamber such that the piston stroke can be minimized whenever the clutch is electrically deenergized.

Variable capacity swash-plate compressor with electromagnetic clutch

An axial multi-piston compressor having a drive shaft which rotates and a cylinder block having a multiplicity of cylinder bores and pistons within the cylinder bores. The cylinder block is associated with a crank chamber containing the fluid to be compressed and a lubricating oil mist. The peripheral wall of the crank chamber having a groove on the peripheral surface which groove collects oil and directs the oil to the shaft seal. The groove is partially curved in a direction counter to the direction of rotation of the shaft.

Axial multi-piston compressor with internal lubricating arrangement for

A plurality of pistons of a variable displacement compressor are reciprocatably disposed in cylinder bores which are formed in a housing. A drive shaft is rotatably supported in the housing. A lug plate is rotatable with the drive shaft. A swash plate is tiltably and slidably mounted on the drive shaft. The swash plate is operatively coupled with the pistons. A hinge mechanism connects the lug plate and the swash plate. The hinge mechanism causes the pistons to reciprocate via the lug plate and the swash plate, in response to the rotational motion of the drive shaft. The hinge mechanism includes a pin, which has a first and a second end portions. The first end portion of the pin is slidably inserted into the swash plate. A support arm protrudes from the lug plate, and further includes a bush. The bush rotatably supports the second end portion of the pin.

Variable displacement compressor

The housing of a swash plate type compressor includes a suction chamber and a discharge chamber. A plurality of cylinder bores are formed in a cylinder block connected to the housing. A plurality of pistons in corresponding cylinder bores are provided such that each piston reciprocates as a function of the rotation of a rotary shaft. A valve chamber communicates with at least one of the suction chamber and discharge chamber, and is provided between the housing and the cylinder block. The valve chamber is connected to the cylinder bores via respective passages. A rotary valve is accommodated rotatably in the valve chamber. A guide groove is provided in the outer surface of the rotary valve to permit communication between each cylinder bore and the associated passage in at least one of a suction stage and a compression stage of the coolant gas. A gas passage has one of its ends connected to the guide groove, and the other end connected to either the suction chamber or discharge chamber and is provided in the rotary valve. The rotary valve is coupled to the rotary shaft by a connecting member.

Coolant gas guiding mechanism in swash plate type compressor

A variable capacity wobble plate type compressor having an electromagnetic induction type rotation detector detecting an actual rotation of internal rotatable elements in the compressor, which has a flanged disc-like element having apertures formed in the flange of the element and attached to a drive plate support element rotatable with a drive shaft of the compressor and an electromagnetic induction type sensing element cooperable with the apertures of the flanged disc-like element to generate an electric voltage signal having a wave form having symmetrical peak absolute values of different polarities with reference to a reference voltage level and in no way influenced by the existence of a partial balancing rom portion of the drive plate support element.

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Kariya, Japan

Toru Takeichi