Swash plate type compressor shoe
AssigneesTaiho Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
InventorsKenichiro Futamura, Keiichiro Ohtsu
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Abstract
A swash plate type compressor is provided with a compressor shoe having a sliding contact surface for making sliding contact with a swash plate. The sliding contact surface is formed with a central hole. A crest portion is formed between the hole and the outer periphery of the shoe, and smooth surface portions connect the crest portion with the hole and the outer periphery, the crest portion being located substantially at or inwardly of a radially middle point of the sliding contact surface between the hole and the outer periphery.
Claims4
In a swash plate type compressor shoe having a sliding contact surface for making sliding contact with a swash plate, said sliding contact being formed with a hole, the improvement wherein a sliding contact surface between said hole and an outer periphery of said shoe is formed as a convex surface comprising a crest portion and surfaces smoothly continuous with both sides of said crest portion and lower than said crest portion, said crest portion being located substantially at or inwardly of a radial middle point of said sliding contact surface between said hole and said outer periphery of said shoe.
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