Abstract: A variable capacity wobble plate compressor includes a wobble plate (36) in the crank chamber (7) for adjusting the piston stroke; a control valve (45) for controlling the chamber pressure in the crank chamber to adjust the angle of the wobble plate; a pressure sensor (53); a rotary speed sensor (56); a heat load sensor (61); and/or a vibration sensor (62); and a control unit responsive to a signal from at least one of the sensors for controlling the control valve to prevent the compressor from entering an unstable zone.

Abstract: A swash-plate type rotary compressor includes a plurality of cylinders disposed in circumferentially equi-distantly spaced relation to each other around a drive shaft having mounted thereon a swash plate for rotation therewith. The swash plate is rotated to cause pistons to be slidingly reciprocated in the respective cylinders to draw gas containing lubricant and to compress same. Guide walls are provided on both sides of a swash plate chamber for guiding gas introduced into the swash plate chamber to flow over entire side surfaces of the swash plate from an outer periphery toward a center thereof. A plurality of gas guiding passageways are each located between each pair of adjacent cylinders, for guiding the gas flowing to a central portion of the swash plate into at least one low pressure space.

Abstract: In an improved swash plate type compressor in which a first end block, holding a first valve plate against one end of the cylinder block, defines a first input plenum and an output plenum with input and output valve means for a first set of cylinder chambers, a partition plate is secured between the other end of the cylinder block and a second end block and holds a second valve plate against that end of the cylinder block, defining for a second set of cylinder chambers a second input plenum with input valve means and an output chamber with an output valve means. The second end block defines inlet and outlet buffering chambers to which an inlet and an outlet open. The cylinder block is formed with an input transfer passage communicated at its ends to the first and second input plenums. The partition plate is formed with an output transfer aperture for the output chamber, communicating it to the outlet buffering chamber. Also, a means communicates from the inlet buffering chamber to the input transfer passage.