EP0992682A2 - Kolbenverdichter - Google Patents

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EP0992682A2
EP0992682A2 EP99119474A EP99119474A EP0992682A2 EP 0992682 A2 EP0992682 A2 EP 0992682A2 EP 99119474 A EP99119474 A EP 99119474A EP 99119474 A EP99119474 A EP 99119474A EP 0992682 A2 EP0992682 A2 EP 0992682A2
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shoe
piston
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Manabu Sugiura
Takayuki Kato
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Toyota Industries Corp
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Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho KK
Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B27/00—Multi-cylinder pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders
    • F04B27/08—Multi-cylinder pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders having cylinders coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main shaft axis
    • F04B27/0873—Component parts, e.g. sealings; Manufacturing or assembly thereof
    • F04B27/0878—Pistons
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B27/00—Multi-cylinder pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders
    • F04B27/08—Multi-cylinder pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders having cylinders coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main shaft axis
    • F04B27/0873—Component parts, e.g. sealings; Manufacturing or assembly thereof
    • F04B27/0878—Pistons
    • F04B27/0886—Piston shoes
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05C—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO MATERIALS, MATERIAL PROPERTIES OR MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR MACHINES, ENGINES OR PUMPS OTHER THAN NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F05C2253/00—Other material characteristics; Treatment of material
    • F05C2253/12—Coating

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  • the present invention relates to a piston compressor for compressing a coolant gas for a vehicle air conditioner, etc.
  • the above-recited piston compressor has a piston connected to a cam plate in the form of a swash plate via a shoe.
  • the swash plate is driven to rotate by a vehicle engine or other external drive means and the rotary motion is converted to a linear reciprocal motion of a piston via a shoe to compress a coolant gas. Therefore, an improved wear resistance must be provided on the sliding surface of the shoe that slides on the cam plate, the sliding surface of the shoe that slide on the piston, and the sliding surface of the piston that slides on the shoe, to prevent backlash from occurring at the sliding surfaces and to ensure a smooth linear reciprocal motion of the piston.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a piston compressor in which a smooth linear reciprocal motion of the piston is ensured for a long period of time.
  • a piston compressor having a rotary cam plate, a shoe and a reciprocal piston, in which a rotary motion of the cam plate is converted to a linear reciprocal motion of the piston via the shoe to compress a gas
  • said piston compressor comprises a metal sprayed layer formed on at least one of a sliding surface of the shoe that slides on the cam plate, a sliding surface of the shoe that slides on the piston and a sliding surface of the piston that slides on the shoe.
  • the metal sprayed layer has a porous surface which facilitates penetration of a liquid lubricant to provide a reduced friction coefficient with respect to that of the original uncoated surface. Therefore, the metal-sprayed sliding surface of the shoe that slides on the cam plate, the metal-sprayed sliding surface of the shoe that slides on the piston, and/or the metal-sprayed sliding surface of the piston that slides on the shoe has an improved wear resistance to prevent a backlash from occurring either between the cam plate and the shoe and/or between the shoe and the piston, thereby maintaining a smooth linear reciprocal motion of the piston for a long period of time.
  • the metal sprayed layer contains a solid lubricant which facilitates a low friction sliding at the sliding surface of the shoe that slides on the cam plate, the sliding surface of the shoe that slides on the piston and/or the sliding surface of the piston that slides on the shoe.
  • the original, uncoated sliding surfaces are pretreated by a surface roughening process to have an increased surface roughness, so that the adhesivity of the metal sprayed layer to the original sliding surface is improved to prevent exfoliation of the metal sprayed layer.
  • FIG. 1 shows a piston compressor according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • a front housing 11 is sealingly connected to the front end of a cylinder block 12.
  • a rear housing 13 is sealingly connected to the rear end of the cylinder block 12 via a valve/port assembly 14.
  • a crank chamber 15 is defined by the surrounding front housing 11 and cylinder block 12.
  • a rotary shaft 16 extends across the crank chamber 15 and is rotatably held between the front housing 11 and the cylinder block 12.
  • the rotary shaft 16 is linked to a vehicle engine or an external drive mechanism via a solenoid clutch or other clutch mechanism. The rotary shaft 16 is thus driven to rotate by connecting the clutch mechanism during operation of the vehicle engine.
  • a rotary support 19 is fixed to the rotary shaft 16 within the crank chamber 15.
  • a swash plate 20 forming a cam plate is made of an aluminum-based metal material.
  • the swash plate 20 is held on the rotary shaft 16 so that it can slide in the direction of, and can tilt about, the axis L of the rotary shaft 16.
  • a hinge mechanism 21 intervenes between the rotary support 19 and the swash plate 20.
  • the intervening hinge mechanism 21 enables the swash plate 20 to tilt about, and to rotate integrally with, the rotary shaft 16.
  • the inclination angle of the swash plate 20 is decreased when the radial center of the swash plate 20 is moved toward the cylinder block 12 and is increased when the radial center is moved toward the rotary support 19.
  • Plural cylinder bores 12a are formed in the cylinder block 12 at a selected interval around the axis L.
  • Plural single-headed pistons 22 have a cylindrical head 35 received in the corresponding cylinder bore 12a and have a neck 36 which engages with the peripheral portion of the swash plate 20 via a shoe 23.
  • Figure 2 shows a pair of opposite shoe seating surfaces 36a formed inside the neck 36.
  • the shoe seating surfaces 36a are composed of parts of a single sphere.
  • a pair of shoes 23 each has a substantially hemispherical shape, intervenes between the shoe seating surface 36a and the peripheral portion of the swash plate 20, has a convex spherical surface 23a fittingly received in the shoe seating surface 36a and has a flat surface 23b in fitting contact with the swash plate 20.
  • the piston 22 is a casting, a forging, etc., of an aluminum-based metal material.
  • the shoes 23 are a casting, a forging, etc., of an iron-based metal material.
  • a suction chamber 24 and a discharge chamber 25 are separately formed in the rear housing 13.
  • a suction port 26, a suction valve 27, a discharge port 28 and a discharge valve 29 are formed in the valve/port assembly 14.
  • a gas withdrawal passage 30 is composed of a passage 30a formed along the axis of the rotary shaft 16 and a through hole 30b formed through the cylinder block 12 and the valve/port assembly 14.
  • the gas withdrawal passage 30 communicates the crank chamber 15 with the suction chamber 24.
  • a gas supply passage 31 communicates the discharge chamber 25 with the crank chamber 15.
  • a displacement control valve 32 is inserted in the gas supply passage 31 and has a solenoid 32a and a valve body 32b which is operated by energization and deenergization of the solenoid 32a to open and close the gas supply passage 31.
  • the energization and deenergization of the solenoid 32a is computer-controlled corresponding to the refrigerating load, etc.
  • the opening degree of the gas supply passage 31 is adjusted by the valve body 32b to vary the pressure in the crank chamber 15, thereby adjusting the difference between the pressures in the crank chamber 15 and in the cylinder bore 12a, the pressures acting on the front and rear sides of the piston 22.
  • the inclination angle of the swash plate 20 is varied to vary the stroke of the piston 22, thereby adjusting the discharge.
  • the valve body 32b opens the gas supply passage 31 to communicate the discharge chamber 25 with the crank chamber 15, so that a compressed coolant gas is supplied from the discharge chamber 25 to the crank chamber 15 through the gas supply passage 31 to raise the pressure in the crank chamber 15.
  • the inclination angle of the swash plate 20 is minimized to minimize the stroke of the piston 22, thereby minimizing the discharge.
  • valve body 32b closes the gas supply passage 31 and the pressure in the crank chamber 15 is allowed to be reduced depending upon an withdrawal pressure through the gas withdrawal passage 30.
  • the pressure in the crank chamber 15 is thus reduced, the inclination angle of the swash plate 20 is maximized to maximize the stroke of the piston 22, thereby maximizing the discharge.
  • the neck 36 of the piston 22 has both shoe seating surfaces 36a provided with a metal-sprayed layer.
  • a metal spraying includes using a high speed flow of a pressurized gas to atomize a molten metal and to blow the atomized molten metal particles onto the shoe seating surface 36a. The thus deposited molten metal particles are rapidly solidified on the shoe seating surface 36a to cumulatively form a metal-sprayed layer or a metal coating Y on the surface 36a.
  • Metals suitably used for the metal spraying include aluminum-based metal materials, copper-based metal materials, iron-based metal materials, etc.
  • both shoe seating surfaces 36a are metal-sprayed, only one of which is represented by cross-hatching.
  • a metal suitably used for the metal spraying contains an additive of a solid lubricant, so that the metal-sprayed layer formed on the shoe seating surface 36a contains the solid lubricant.
  • the solid lubricant may be molybdenum disulfide, carbon graphite, polytetrafluoroethylene or other fluorocarbon resin, tin, lead, etc.
  • a pretreatment for metal spraying includes roughening the original shoe seating surface 36a by shot blasting.
  • the shot blasting may be effected either by shot peening in which broken steel grains, rounded steel grains or abrasive grains are blown onto the shoe seating surface 36a, or by liquid honing in which a liquid containing abrasive grains is blown onto the original shoe seating surface 36a.
  • This embodiment provides the following advantages.
  • the present invention may be also embodied as follows.
  • the present invention also provides a piston of a piston compressor in which a rotary motion of a cam plate 20 is converted to a linear reciprocal motion of a piston 22 via a shoe 23 to compress a gas, wherein the piston has a metal sprayed layer formed on a sliding surface 36a thereof that slides on the shoe 23.
  • the present invention further provides a shoe of a piston compressor in which a rotary motion of a cam plate 20 is converted to a linear reciprocal motion of a piston 22 via a shoe 23 to compress a gas, wherein the shoe has a metal sprayed layer formed on one or both of a sliding surface 23b thereof that slides on the cam plate 20 and a sliding surface 23a thereof that slides on the piston 22.
  • the present invention provides a piston compressor in which backlash is prevented from occurring at a sliding surface between a cam plate and a shoe and/or at a sliding surface between a shoe and a piston, thereby ensuring a smooth linear reciprocal motion of the piston for a long period of time.

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EP99119474.7A 1998-10-05 1999-09-30 Kolbenverdichter Pending EP0992682A3 (de)

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JP10282744A JP2000110716A (ja) 1998-10-05 1998-10-05 ピストン式圧縮機
JP28274498 1998-10-05

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EP0992682A3 EP0992682A3 (de) 2001-10-24

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Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1249604A1 (de) * 2001-04-11 2002-10-16 Zexel Valeo Climate Control Corporation Kolben für Taumelscheibenverdichter
EP1236897A3 (de) * 2001-02-28 2003-12-03 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki Verdichterbeschichtung
EP1172555A3 (de) * 2000-07-14 2004-05-12 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki Kolbenschuhanordnung in einem taumelscheibenkompressor

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1172555A3 (de) * 2000-07-14 2004-05-12 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki Kolbenschuhanordnung in einem taumelscheibenkompressor
EP1236897A3 (de) * 2001-02-28 2003-12-03 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki Verdichterbeschichtung
US6829980B2 (en) 2001-02-28 2004-12-14 Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki Component having slide contact area of compressor
EP1249604A1 (de) * 2001-04-11 2002-10-16 Zexel Valeo Climate Control Corporation Kolben für Taumelscheibenverdichter

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