General

1. GENERAL
The compressor consists of three cylinders arranged around the drive shaft, in parallel with the drive shaft. Since the piston in each cylinder is driven by a swash plate, the compressor is called a swash plate type compressor

The engine torque is transmitted through a belt from the magnetic clutch to the drive shaft.

The drive shaft on which the swash plate is mounted is supported by a radial bearing and thrust bearing.

The swash plate is made to oscillate by rotation of the drive shaft and causes the piston to make reciprocating motion.

The piston has compression heads at both its ends, which are mounted astride the swash plate in the cylinder. Oscillating motion of the swash plate via the shoes inside the piston causes the piston to make reciprocating motion in parallel with the drive shaft.

The cylinders are arranged around the drive shaft, each equally spaced 120° apart. Each cylinder is split into two halves, each having three bores. Since the individual pistons perform the actions of suction and compression at both ends of the respective bores, the cylinders serve as six cylinders. At both ends of the cylinders, cylinder heads are provided. The front one is called the front head, and the rear one called the rear head. Between the cylinders and cylinder heads, suction and discharge valves are respectively provided for division between the suction and discharge sides.

Since the swash plate piston performs well-balanced suction and compression at both ends, it causes little pulsation and oscillation, assuring outstanding silence.