Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Toshiyuki Nakajima

Hayato Ikeda

Naoya Yokomachi

Katsunori Kawai

Hideo Mori

Atsushi Fukaya

Shoji Takemoto

Tetsuya Takashima

Kazuhiro Tanikawa

A swash plate compressor in which a drive shaft is rotatably supported in a cylinder block having a crank chamber. The swash plate is rotatably disposed on the drive shaft. Thrust bearings are individually fitted between the movable thrust receiving faces of the swash plate and the stationary thrust receiving faces of the cylinder block. As the drive shaft rotates, the swash plate likewise rotates and reciprocates a piston to compress a refrigerant gas. Annular movable ridges are formed on the front and rear side faces of the swash plate concentric around the drive shaft. Stationary ridges are formed concentrically with the movable ridges on the cylinder blocks to face the individually movable ridges. The stationary ridge has a smaller radius than that of the movable ridge. At the front and rear sides of the swash plate, the facing circumferential portions of the movable ridges and the stationary ridges are individually formed with movable and stationary thrust receiving faces for supporting the elastically deformable thrust bearings. At least one of the movable and stationary ridges are formed with escape faces so as to merge into the movable and stationary thrust receiving faces, for establishing escape faces normally between the corresponding thrust bearings. These escape faces expand and reduce the gaps when the thrust bearings are elastically deformed by the action of the swash plate due to the compression reaction forces caused by the reciprocation of the piston.

Thrust bearing structure for swash plate compressor

A refrigerant compressor to be incorporated in a refrigerating circuit of a car air-conditioning system, having a suction side connected to the refrigerating circuit for receiving a refrigerant gas to be compressed, a discharge side for delivering the refrigerant gas after compression, and a bypass passageway arranged between the suction and discharge sides and constantly closed by a passageway-closing valve, and opened by the passageway-closing valve, only when the lowering of a suction pressure prevailing on the suction side to a pressure level below the atmospheric pressure level immediately after a start of the operation of the compressor at a high speed after a long non-operation of the car air-conditioning system.

Refrigerant compressor with an initial seizure prevention means

A gasket has a retainer element integrally formed therewith for a reed valve. The retainer element is defined by one or two pairs of contour lines or by a pair of geometrically combined contour lines, and these contour lines are arranged such that no contour line will act as if it were a hinge when the retainer element is subjected to a deformation force thereof, and thus the retainer element is able to sufficiently withstand a deformation force exerted thereon.

Gasket having retainer element for reed valve integrally formed therewith

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Kariya, Japan

Toshiyuki Nakajima