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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F04B 2/314 ; F01B 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F04B 2/314 ; F01B 3/00 ;
Abstract
A variable swash plate compressor ( ), including a housing ( ), a top inlet ( A), a bottom inlet ( B), a pumping chamber ( ), a compression piston ( ), a top outlet ( A), a bottom outlet ( B), a drive shaft ( ), a control surface element ( ), a pinnacle element ( ), a swash plate ( ), a bore ( ) and a pocket ( ) formed in the swash plate ( ), a pivot element tip ( ) and fulcrum piston assembly ( ). Wherein the angle of the swash plate ( ) relative to the drive shaft ( ) is varied to bring about a larger or smaller travel path of the double-sided compression piston ( ) and thereby increasing or decreasing the output capacity of the variable swash plate compressor ( ).