Wobble plate compressor with swash plate guide member
AssigneeZexel Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Nomura, Kazuo Eitai, Minoru Kanaizuka, Hiroyuki Ishida
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Abstract
A guide member of a wobble plate compressor is slidably mounted in an inner wall surface of a housing of the wobble plate compressor. The guide member comprises a guide part having a U-shaped cross-section and defining a linear guide groove therein into which is slidably inserted a rotation-preventing member rigidly mounted on the wobble plate, and a pair of half cylinder shaped sliding parts mounted on opposite sides of the guide part for sliding in the inner wall surface of the housing. The inner surface of the guide member is hardened by surface treatment.
Claims9
In a wobble plate compressor including a housing, a drive shaft, a wobble plate mounted on said drive shaft for performing wobbling motion according to rotation of said drive shaft, a guide member slidably mounted in an inner wall surface of said housing such that said guide member is rotatable about an axis parallel to said drive shaft, said guide member being formed with a linear guide groove extending in parallel with said drive shaft, and a rotation-preventing member rigidly mounted on said wobble plate and slidably inserted into said linear guide groove of said guide member for preventing rotation of said wobble plate,
- the improvement wherein said guide member comprising:
- guide means having a U-shaped cross-section and defining said linear guide groove therein;
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- a pair of sliding means mounted on opposite sides of said guide means for sliding on said inner wall surface of said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.