Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Yasunori Makino

Masaki Ota

Hisakazu Kobayashi

Masaru Hamasaki

Masayoshi Hori

Ken Suitou

Taku Adaniya

Kenji Takenaka

Hirotaka Kurakake

Osamu Hiramatsu

Kenta Nishimura

Sokichi Hibino

Satoshi Koumura

A variable displacement compressor that decreases displacement to reduce compression load without imbalancing the rotation of the drive shaft when the rotating speed of the compressor's drive shaft exceeds a predetermined limit value. The compressor includes a pressurizing passage connecting a crank chamber to a discharge chamber. A rotated guide rotates integrally with the drive shaft. The pressurizing passage is opened and closed by a valve body. Orbiting balls, which contact the valve body, are arranged about the axis of the drive shaft and the rotated guide. The balls follow the rotation of the rotated guide and orbit about the axis. The orbiting radius of the balls varies. A spring urges the balls in a direction decreasing the orbiting radius of the balls. When the rotating speed of the drive shaft exceeds the limit value, centrifugal force moves the balls against the force of the spring and increases the orbiting diameter of the balls. This moves the valve body and increases the size of the pressurizing passage.

Variable displacement compressor

A variable type compressor has a housing that houses a crank chamber and rotatably supports a drive shaft. Part of the housing is constituted by a cylinder block. Cylinder bores extend through the housing about the drive shaft. A piston is accommodated in each cylinder bore. A discharge chamber is defined in the housing and connected to the crank chamber by a pressurizing passage. An inclinable cam plate is supported on the drive shaft. The reciprocation of each piston draws refrigerant gas into the associated cylinder bore from a suction chamber and discharges the refrigerant gas into the discharge chamber through a discharge port. The displacement and the discharge of refrigerant gas is controlled by altering the inclination of the cam plate. A collection compartment is provided to receive the refrigerant gas discharged from the cylinder bores. Oil is separated from the refrigerant gas in the collection compartment. The inlet of the pressurizing passage is connected with the collection compartment to supply the separated oil to the crank chamber.

A variable capacity swash-plate-type refrigerant compressor incorporating therein single-headed pistons reciprocating in the cylinder bores to compress refrigerant gas, a drive shaft rotatably supported and driven by an external drive source, a swash-plate element mounted around the drive shaft and rotated by the drive shaft so that the rotation of the swash-plate element causing the reciprocation of the single-headed pistons, and a hinge mechanism arranged between the drive shaft and the swash-plate element to permit the swash-plate element to change its angle of inclination with respect to the axis of rotation of the drive shaft to thereby adjustably change the delivery capacity of the compressor, the swash-plate element being constituted by a swash-plate-body member made of an aluminum alloy material and functioning as a sliding contact member cooperating with the single-headed pistons via shoes, and a guide-bracket member made of an iron based material and functioning as a hinge mechanism forming member. The swash-plate-body member and the guide-bracket member are connected together by press-fitting and prevented, by a rotation-preventing unit, from being relatively rotated against one another.

Variable capacity swash-plate-type refrigerant compressor

Reciprocating type compressor

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Kariya, Japan

Yasunori Makino