Abstract:
An axial multi-piston compressor includes a drive shaft, a cylinder block having cylinder bores formed therein and surrounding the drive shaft, and a plurality of pistons slidably received in the respective cylinder bores, wherein the pistons are successively reciprocated in the cylinder bores by a rotation of the drive shaft so that a suction stroke and a discharge stroke are alternately executed in each of the cylinder bores. During the suction stroke, a fluid is introduced into the cylinder bore, and during the compression stroke, the introduced fluid is compressed and discharged from the cylinder bore such that a residual part of the compressed fluid is inevitably left in the cylinder bore when the compression stroke is finished. The compressor further includes a rotary valve for allowing the residual part of the compressed fluid to escape from the cylinder bore into another cylinder bore after the suction stroke is executed in the former cylinder bore over a given short period of time.
Abstract:
A cylinder and piston construction for a compressor or vacuum pump has a cylinder defined by co-axial cylinder and guideway sleeves. The guideway sleeve is larger in diameter than the cylinder sleeve and the cylinder sleeve extends axially into the guideway sleeve. A piston has a cylindrical base which is guided via skirt bearings in the guideway and a head which extends from the base into the compression chamber defined by the cylinder sleeve and has a piston ring which forms a sliding seal with the cylinder sleeve. An annular cavity is defined between the piston head and the piston base into which the cylinder sleeve extends so that the top skirt bearing is positioned closer to the top of the piston head and further away from the bottom skirt bearing so as to steadily guide the piston head in the cylinder sleeve, thereby reducing wear and increasing the life of the pump.
Abstract:
A hydraulic transmission device operable to translate hydraulic energy into mechanical energy and vice versa. The device has a housing 14 having a close end portion and an open end portion in the longitudinal direction. The housing supports therein a drive shaft 11, a retainer 12, and a cylinder block 13 which have an integral structure. A recess is formed at a substantially central location of the end surface of the cylinder block 13 that is on the side of an open end of the housing, and a cover 15 closing the open end of the housing has a protruding portion 15A which extends through a port plate 23 to be engaged with the recess of the cylinder block through a bearing 17. A plurality of pistons are disposed in the cylinder block and are kept in tight engagement with a swash plate fixed to the closed end portion of the housing at a constant tilt angle. The device acts as either a swash plate type axial piston pump or motor of this type as the drive shaft rotates.
Abstract:
A fluid pressure device of the axial plunger type including a housing, a rotatable shaft within the housing, a rotatable cylinder block operatively connected to the shaft and having a plurality of axial bores, plungers slidably mounted, respectively, within the bores, a valve plate located in abutment with an end surface of the cylinder block and having inlet and outlet ports which communicate successively with the bores as the cylinder block rotates, a swash plate pivotally supported upon the housing and operatively connected to the plungers for causing the plungers to reciprocate, and plunger shoes positioned between the plungers and the swash plate, the shoes being made of either a high tensile aluminum alloy, titanium, or a high tensile titanium alloy and comprising a slidable bearing surface made of a high load-bearing alloy which is adapted to bear against a planar surface of the swash plate.
Abstract:
A single-side compression type swash-plate compressor wherein, in order to improve the sliding contact performance on the compression side of the iron or aluminum material used therein, at least that plane of a swash plate (14) which is in sliding contact with a shoe (15b) on the compression space side is coated with a sprayed coating layer comprising a copper alloy containing 0.5-50 % of at least one member selected from the group consisting of at most 40 % lead, at most 30 % tin, at most 0.5 % phosphorus, at most 15 % aluminum, at most 10 % silver, at most 5 % silicon, at most 5 % manganese, at most 5 % chromium, at most 20 % nickel and at most 30 % zinc, and the balance consisting substantially by copper and impurities, while at least that plane of the swash plate (14) which is in sliding contact with a shoe (15a) on the side opposite to the compression space is subjected to electrolytic plating, nonelectrolytic plating, lubricant coating, phosphate coating, or hardening.
Abstract:
In order to increase the anti-seizing properties of a swash plate which is a sliding component of a swash plate type compressor, a copper alloy is sprayed onto the swash plate and the following texture/composition controls are performed as required: (a) to produce a mixed texture of a dissolved texture into which atomized bronze powder is dissolved during spraying and an atomized texture into which the same bronze powder is not dissolved, (b) to add no or a small amount of Pb to the dissolved texture, (c) to add Sn, P, Al, Ag, Si, Mn, Cr, Ni, Zn, Pb and/or Bi to copper, (d) to add a hard material to a copper alloy, and (e) to form an intermediate layer comprising an Ni alloy or the like between the sprayed layer and a substrate.
Abstract:
L'invention a pour objet une pièce moulée à haute résistance mécanique, tant statique qu'en fatigue et au fluage à chaud, en alliage d'aluminium de composition : Si : 3 -11 %, de préférence 5.0 - 9.0 % Fe
Abstract:
A swash plate which is made of an iron-based or aluminum-based material and is used in a single-side compression type swash-plate compressor. A flame-sprayed copper-based alloy layer is formed on at least a sliding surface with a first shoe in a compression space side. The flame-sprayed copper-based alloy layer contains in total, by weight percentage, not less than 0.5% and not more than 50% of one or more kinds selected from not more than 40% of lead, not more than 30% of tin, not more than 0.5% of phosphorus, not more than 15% of aluminum, not more than 10% of silver, not more than 5% of silicon, not more than 5% of manganese, not more than 5% of chromium, not more than 20% of nickel, and not more than 30% of zinc and the balance essentially copper and impurities. Electrolytic plating, electroless plating, lubricant coating, phophatizing or hardening is applied on at least a second sliding surface with a second shoe in the side opposite to the compression space.
Abstract:
An axial multi-piston compressor includes a drive shaft, a cylinder block having cylinder bores formed therein and surrounding the drive shaft, and a plurality of pistons slidably received in the respective cylinder bores, wherein the pistons are successively reciprocated in the cylinder bores by a rotation of the drive shaft so that a suction stroke and a discharge stroke are alternately executed in each of the cylinder bores. During the suction stroke, a fluid is introduced into the cylinder bore, and during the compression stroke, the introduced fluid is compressed and discharged from the cylinder bore such that a residual part of the compressed fluid is inevitably left in the cylinder bore when the compression stroke is finished. The compressor further includes a rotary valve for allowing the residual part of the compressed fluid to escape from the cylinder bore into another cylinder bore governed by the compression stroke.
Abstract:
An axial multi-piston compressor having a drive shaft which rotates and a cylinder block having a multiplicity of cylinder bores and pistons within the cylinder bores. The cylinder block is associated with a crank chamber containing the fluid to be compressed and a lubricating oil mist. The peripheral wall of the crank chamber having a groove on the peripheral surface which groove collects oil and directs the oil to the shaft seal. The groove is partially curved in a direction counter to the direction of rotation of the shaft.