Abstract: A variable displacement compressor including a drive shaft through which a gas passage extends between front and rear ends of the drive shaft. The gas passage is connected to a suction chamber at the rear end of the drive shaft. The drive shaft includes a first gas inlet passage, which connects the gas passage to a crank chamber through a lip seal, an oil chamber, and a thrust bearing, and a second gas inlet passage, which connects the gas passage to a central portion of the crank chamber. The drive shaft further includes a sleeve movable along the drive shaft as a swash plate inclines to adjust an open amount of the second gas inlet passage in accordance with the inclination angle of the swash plate, that is, the displacement of the compressor.

Abstract: A suction throttle valve of a variable displacement compressor having a compressor housing includes a suction chamber, a crank chamber, an inlet, a suction passage, a valve body, a valve housing, an urging member, a valve chamber, and a communication hole. The valve body is provided for adjusting an opening area of the suction passage and movably arranged in the suction passage. The urging member urges the valve body in the direction that decreases the opening area of the suction passage. The communication hole is provided for connecting the suction chamber to the valve housing. An opening area of the communication hole is variable in accordance with the movement of the valve body. Accordingly, the opening area of the communication hole becomes maximum during the maximum displacement operation of the compressor and becomes reduced during the intermediate displacement operation of the compressor.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a device for reducing pulsation in a variable displacement compressor. The compressor is connected to an external refrigerant circuit. The device for reducing pulsation includes a flow passage and a control valve. The control valve includes a valve housing, a spool valve and a damper chamber. The spool valve has formed therethrough a flow hole. The damper chamber communicates with the flow passage adjacent to the external refrigerant circuit through the flow hole. Effective cross-sectional area and effective length of the flow hole are determined based on frequency of a specific pulsation of the refrigerant gas and volume of the damper chamber at the time of the development of the specific pulsation in such a manner that the specific pulsation is developed, resonance effect of a Helmholtz resonator takes place in the damper chamber.

Abstract: A compressor has a suction throttle valve, which includes a suction passage, a suction port, a valve body, an urging member, a valve chamber, a first communication hole, a closing valve and a valve seat. The closing valve closes the hole of the valve body by pressure difference between the valve chamber and the suction port. The valve seat limits movement of the closing valve toward the suction port. The hole of the valve body is closed when the closing valve is in contact with the valve body, and open when the closing valve is in contact with the valve seat. A communication passage is formed in the closing valve or the valve seat, which enables communication between the hole of the valve body and the suction port when the closing valve is in contact with the valve seat.

Abstract: A suction throttle valve of a compressor has a compressor housing having a suction chamber and a crank chamber. The suction throttle valve includes a suction passage formed in the housing, a suction port provided at an inlet of the suction passage, a valve body movably arranged in the suction passage for adjusting opening of the suction passage, an urging member for urging the valve body toward the suction port, and a valve chamber provided in the suction passage. Refrigerant is drawn into the suction passage through the suction port and then received in the suction chamber. A first communication hole is formed through the housing, through which the valve chamber and the suction chamber are in constant communication with each other. A second communication hole is formed through the housing, through which the valve chamber and the crank chamber are in constant communication with each other.

Abstract: In a hologram recording medium and a hologram cartridge media accommodating therein the hologram recording medium, in order to fill a hologram recording material over substrates at every nook and corners of the latter, the hologram recording medium is constructed such that the hologram recording material such as photopolymer is filled between the top and bottom planar substrates. Further, a frame is interposed between the top and bottom substrates so as to ensure a hologram material filling space. Further, the frame has at least one notch portion formed in the inner peripheral part thereof, and the hologram recording material is filled in both notch portion and filling space. The notch portion is adapted to allow the hologram recording material to be uniformly spread over in the entire filling space so as to have a recording layer having a substantially uniform thickness.

Abstract: The invention provides a disc cartridge for a changer having a compact size and a high strength. In a disc cartridge accommodating a plurality of disc trays within an opening portion and structured such that each of disc trays is held by guide ribs formed in an inner side surface of a cartridge case, the cartridge case is constituted by an upper case, a lower case and right and left side plates having guide ribs. The respective members are integrally connected in accordance with a fitting operation utilizing a fitting means formed between the upper case and the right and left side plates and between the lower case and the right and left side plates, in an opening portion side than a center portion of the cartridge case. The respective members are integrally connected in accordance with a thread fastening, in a depth side than the center portion of the cartridge case.

Abstract: A disk cartridge, which is compact, which requires a small number of parts, and which is easily assembled, is provided. The disk cartridge of the present invention comprises an upper case and a lower case. Each of the upper case and the lower case is formed to be substantially circular. The upper case and the lower case define a disk-accommodating section when the lower case and the lower case overlap with each other. The disk cartridge is opened/closed by rotating the upper case relative to the lower case about a base point of a movable section which is provided for the upper case and/or the lower case. An information-recording disk is accommodated and removed in a state in which the disk cartridge is open.

Abstract: An upper die holder apparatus having a holder body has an upper die clamp supported to the holder body with a supporting point supporting the upper die clamp in a vicinity of a center in a vertical direction of the holder body. A clamping force applier is provided to the holder body for pressing an upper portion of the upper die clamp so that the upper die clamp clamps the upper die. A pressure receiver is provided to an upper portion of the upper die clamp. The pressure receiver, having a pressure sensing surface, is provided so that its advancing and retreating are adjusted to a pressing direction by the clamping force applier and the pressure receiver is provided so that an opening amount of the upper die clamp at the time of unclamping is freely selected between a plurality of stages.

Abstract: A cartridge and a drive unit that drives a cartridge and has an insertion opening into which the cartridge is inserted are provided. The drive unit includes a shutter which opens and closes the insertion opening, and a mechanism for locking a close state of the shutter so as to prohibit a different type of cartridge and the cartridge not facing a predetermined direction from proceeding to an inside of the drive unit, and for unlocking the close state so as to allow the shutter to proceed to the inside of the drive unit. The cartridge includes a unlock member that unlocks the close state of the shutter in cooperation with the mechanism.

Abstract: A variable displacement compressor including a drive shaft through which a gas passage extends between front and rear ends of the drive shaft. The gas passage is connected to a suction chamber at the rear end of the drive shaft. The drive shaft includes a first gas inlet passage, which connects the gas passage to a crank chamber through a lip seal, an oil chamber, and a thrust bearing, and a second gas inlet passage, which connects the gas passage to a central portion of the crank chamber. The drive shaft further includes a sleeve movable along the drive shaft as a swash plate inclines to adjust an open amount of the second gas inlet passage in accordance with the inclination angle of the swash plate, that is, the displacement of the compressor.

Abstract: A piston type compressor includes a housing forming a cylinder bore. A drive shaft is supported by the housing. A cam plate is coupled to the drive shaft and is rotated by the rotation of the drive shaft. A piston is accommodated in the cylinder bore and is coupled to the cam plate. The rotation of the cam plate is converted into the reciprocating movement of the piston. In accordance with the reciprocating movement of the piston, gas is introduced into the cylinder bore, is compressed and is discharged from the cylinder bore. Compression reactive force is generated in compressing the gas by the piston, is transmitted to the housing through a compression reactive force transmission path and is received by the housing. A vibration damping member is made of a predetermined vibration damping alloy and is placed at least one location along the compression reactive force transmission path.

Abstract: A disk cartridge, which is compact, which requires a small number of parts, and which is easily assembled, is provided. The disk cartridge of the present invention comprises an upper case and a lower case. Each of the upper case and the lower case is formed to be substantially circular. The upper case and the lower case define a disk-accommodating section when the lower case and the lower case overlap with each other. The disk cartridge is opened/closed by rotating the upper case relative to the lower case about a base point of a movable section which is provided for the upper case and/or the lower case. An information-recording disk is accommodated and removed in a state in which the disk cartridge is open.

Abstract: A piston type compressor includes a housing forming a cylinder bore. A drive shaft is supported by the housing. A cam plate is coupled to the drive shaft and is rotated by the rotation of the drive shaft. A piston is accommodated in the cylinder bore and is coupled to the cam plate. The rotation of the cam plate is converted into the reciprocating movement of the piston. In accordance with the reciprocating movement of the piston, gas is introduced into the cylinder bore, is compressed and is discharged from the cylinder bore. Compression reactive force is generated in compressing the gas by the piston, is transmitted to the housing through a compression reactive force transmission path and is received by the housing. A vibration damping member is made of a predetermined vibration damping alloy and is placed at least one location along the compression reactive force transmission path.

Abstract: In a piston-type variable displacement compressor according to the present invention, a rotary valve includes a guide passage having a main suction port for securing a flow rate corresponding to maximum displacement operation and a sub suction port for effecting throttling to a flow rate low enough to suppress pressure fluctuation during variable displacement operation, and during maximum displacement operation, the spool is moved by a suction gas flow to totally open both the main suction port and the sub suction port, and during variable displacement operation, the spool is moved by a pressure difference between the suction chamber pressure and the crank chamber pressure to close the main suction port while keeping the sub suction port open.

Abstract: A variable displacement compressor in which variable control of displacement is effected through adjustment of a crank chamber pressure, includes: a suction port; a suction chamber; a suction passage establishing communication between the suction port and the suction chamber; and an opening control valve arranged in the suction passage and adapted to adjust the opening of the suction passage based on a pressure difference between a suction pressure in the suction port and the crank chamber pressure.

Abstract: A disk cartridge, which is compact, which requires a small number of parts, and which is easily assembled, is provided. The disk cartridge of the present invention comprises an upper case and a lower case. Each of the upper case and the lower case is formed to be substantially circular. The upper case and the lower case define a disk-accommodating section when the lower case and the lower case overlap with each other. The disk cartridge is opened/closed by rotating the upper case relative to the lower case about a base point of a movable section which is provided for the upper case and/or the lower case. An information-recording disk is accommodated and removed in a state in which the disk cartridge is open.

Abstract: A piston compressor includes a rotary valve having a suction guide hole. A plurality of introducing passages are formed in a cylinder block to connect compression chambers to the rotary valve. The inner circumferential surface of each cylinder bore has a suction auxiliary recess, which is connected to the outlet of the corresponding introducing passage in the circumferential direction of the cylinder bore at the end of the cylinder bore facing a valve assembly. Therefore, the compressor reduces suction resistance of gas at the beginning of the suction stroke without enlarging introducing passages formed in the cylinder block.

Abstract: A piston type compressor includes a housing forming a cylinder bore. A drive shaft is supported by the housing. A cam plate is coupled to the drive shaft and is rotated by the rotation of the drive shaft. A piston is accommodated in the cylinder bore and is coupled to the cam plate. The rotation of the cam plate is converted into the reciprocating movement of the piston. In accordance with the reciprocating movement of the piston, gas is introduced into the cylinder bore, is compressed and is discharged from the cylinder bore. Compression reactive force is generated in compressing the gas by the piston, is transmitted to the housing through a compression reactive force transmission path and is received by the housing. A vibration damping member is made of a predetermined vibration damping alloy and is placed at least one location along the compression reactive force transmission path.