Air-conditioner compressor for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorDong-Seok Oh
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Abstract
A vehicle air-conditioner compressor may include a housing having a front housing section and a rear housing section; a shaft rotatably installed in the housing; a lug fixed at a preset position on the shaft; a swash plate coupled with the lug at one side thereof and rotating together with the lug, a piston connected to the swash plate by a shoe and moved reciprocatingly by the swash plate; a cylinder that accommodates the piston therein, and a pressure-sensing chamber coupled with a rod at the other side of the swash plate, that operates the rod using a pressure provided from a high-pressure chamber of the rear housing.
Claims7
A vehicle air-conditioner compressor, comprising:
- a housing having a front housing section and a rear housing section;
- a first pressure chamber disposed in the rear housing section;
- a shaft rotatably installed in the housing;
- a lug fixed at a preset position on the shaft;
- a swash plate coupled with the lug at one side thereof and rotating together with the lug;
- a piston connected to the swash plate by a shoe and moved reciprocatingly by the swash plate;
- a cylinder disposed in the housing that accommodates the piston therein;
- a bushing coupled with the swash plate and sliding along the shaft;
- a spring installed between the lug and the bushing to elastically move the swash plate connected to the bushing;
- a second pressure-sensing chamber coupled with a rod at the side of the swash plate opposite the lug,
- wherein pressure provided from the first high-pressure chamber of the rear housing section causes the rod to move and thereby changes an inclination of the swash plate;
- the rear housing section further comprises:
- a first pressure-sensing chamber into which the shaft is press-fitted;
- a first low-pressure chamber surrounding the first pressure-sensing chamber;
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- the first high-pressure chamber surrounding the first low-pressure chamber;
- wherein a communicating channel is formed between the first high-pressure chamber and the first pressure-sensing chamber without a control valve therebetween, and the communicating channel extends between the first high-pressure chamber and the first pressure-sensing chamber across internal space of the first low-pressure chamber;
- wherein the first low-pressure chamber is separated from the first pressure-sensing chamber in the rear housing such that the first low-pressure chamber does not communicate with the first pressure-sensing chamber in the rear housing,
- wherein a communicating hole is formed in the shaft to transfer a pressure from the first pressure-sensing chamber to the second pressure-sensing chamber through the communicating hole;
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- wherein the inclination of the swash plate is changed by a difference between an operating force of the rod and a spring force of the spring, and the operating force of the rod is caused by the pressure transferred from the first high-pressure chamber to the second pressure-sensing chamber through the communicating channel and the communicating hole.
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