Abstract: Disclosed is a compressor designed to facilitate the assembling of the thrust bearing and reduce noise. A swash plate which moves in responsive to the drive shaft is arranged in a crank chamber defined in a pair of cylinder blocks. Ring washers are held between both bosses of the swash plate and seats formed on both cylinder blocks. Wedge-like clearances are formed between the washers and the seats of the cylinder blocks for the effective introduction of the refrigerant gas by the yawing of the swash plate which occurs as the compressor runs. At this time, the washers, together with the lubrication oil mist contained in the refrigerant gas, constitute the dynamic bearing to support the swash plate and permit the relative movement of the swash plate to the cylinder blocks.

Abstract: An apparatus for decoding a compressed and coded sound signal by applying thereto an inverse quantization processing and a synthesis processing is arranged to include a data extracting unit for extracting quantization level data, scale factor data and quantization data from a data stream of the compressed and coded sound signal, and an integrated processing unit for processing the extracted data by use of an integrated operational equation which is obtained by combining a first operational equation used for the inverse quantization processing with a second operational equation used for the synthesis processing.

Abstract: A reciprocating piston compressor adapted to receive a low pressure gas from an external circuit, and to supply a high pressure gas to the external circuit includes a cylinder block with front and rear ends. The cylinder block includes a central bore extending along the longitudinal axis, and a plurality of axially extending cylinder bores. The central bore has an open end at the front end of the cylinder block and an opposite closed end. Pistons are slidably provided within the cylinder bores for reciprocation. A drive shaft is inserted into the central bore for driving the motion of the reciprocating pistons. A pair of radial bearings, which are provided in the central bore, supports the axially extending drive shaft. An oil separator is provided between the compressor and the external circuit to remove lubricating oil contained in the high pressure gas.

Abstract: A compressor includes a drive shaft rotatably supported on cylinder block. A swash plate rotates in accordance with rotation of the drive shaft. A plurality of pistons reciprocate in the associated bores in the cylinder block in accordance with the rotation of the swash plate. First an second thrust bearings are provided in the cylinder block at both sides of the swash plate, and receive the axial loads applied to the swash plate and drive shaft according to the reciprocation of the pistons. The first thrust bearing has the first seat portion clamped at both sides by the swash plate and cylinder block and the second seat portion located apart from one of the swash plate and cylinder block.

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor includes reciprocating pistons moved by a swash plate. A housing member is attached to one end of the cylinder block via a valve plate. A discharge chamber is formed in the peripheral region in the housing member, and a suction chamber and an oil chamber are formed in the central region in the housing member in an axially juxtaposed relationship. Alternatively, a suction chamber is formed in the peripheral region, and a discharge chamber and an oil chamber are formed in the central region. The oil chamber is connected to the suction chamber by an oil return passage. A centrifugal type or collision type oil separating device is arranged in the discharge chamber above the oil chamber in the housing member.