Abstract:
Disclosed is a thrust bearing structure for supporting a driving shaft for use in a variable displacement swash plate type compressor. The inventive thrust bearing structure supports a driving shaft of the compressor, and has a specific correlation between the inner and the outer diameters of a stationary race and a driving race, between the races and a cylinder bore and a outer diameter of the driving shaft. That is, a distance (Lr1) between an inner diameter (d3) of the stationary race 82 and an outer diameter (d2) of the driving shaft 20 is greater than a distance (Lr2) between an outer diameter (D3) of the stationary race 82 and a surface 4a of the center bore 4 (Lr1>Lr2).