The present invention provides a method for producing a durable semispherical shoe which can be prevented from being subjected to seizure even in a dry lubrication state in which there is no lubricating oil at a start time of an operation of a swash plate compressor, can be restrained from deteriorating in its lubricating property due to generated frictional heat, and can be restrained from deteriorating in its strength at a production time and an injection molding die. A semispherical shoe (4), for a swash plate compressor, to be produced by the production method has a base material (5), consisting of a hard material, which has a hollow part along a central axis thereof and a resin layer, consisting of a resin composition, which is formed on a surface of a planar part, disposed on a periphery of the base member, which is to be subjected to sliding contact with the swash plate and on a surface of a spherical part, disposed on the periphery thereof, which is to be subjected to sliding contact with a piston. A resin-filled portion (8) where the resin composition is filled and an empty portion where the resin composition is not filled are formed in the hollow part of the base material. The resin-filled portion (8) and the resin layer are formed by injecting and filling the resin composition into a portion to be formed as the resin-filled portion (8) with the base material (5) being disposed inside a cavity (22) of the injection molding die.

A swash plate compressor in which a lubricating film is not formed on a sliding contact surface of the swash plate and the piston owing to the use of the semispherical shoe. The semispherical shoe (4) is subjected to sliding contact with the swash plate of the swash plate compressor and the piston thereof. A base material (5) consists of a metallic member having a resin layer (6b) formed on a surface of a planar part (4b) that is subjected to sliding contact with the swash plate. A resin layer (6a) is formed on a surface of a spherical part (4a) to be subjected to sliding contact with the piston. The resin layer (6a) and the resin layer (6b) are integral with each other. At least one portion of the base material (5) is exposed.

A swash plate compressor according to the present invention includes a first slide layer formed between a swash plate and shoes; and a second slide layer formed between cylinder bores and pistons. The first slide layer and the second slide layer each contain binder resin and solid lubricant. The first slide layer has a smaller contact angle of lubricating oil than the second slide layer.

A piston shoe as a sliding component includes a base section, which is made of steel, and a sliding section having a sliding surface, which is made of copper alloy and joined to the base section. The base section and the sliding section are joined, with a base section joint region being formed in the base section, the base section joint region including a base section joint surface that is a surface joined to the sliding section and having smaller grains than other regions in the base section.

There is provided a shoe for a compressor with improved seizure resistance. The shoe for the compressor includes: a first sliding face that slides on a piston; a second sliding face that slides on a swash plate; and a recess formed in the second sliding face. In a section along a height direction and scaled up 1000 times in the height direction and 10 times in a radial direction, a connecting portion between the second sliding face and the recess 53 is formed in a rounded shape with a radius R2 larger than 5 mm.

A double-headed piston type swash plate compressor includes a rotation shaft, a housing, a swash plate, two cylinder bores, a double-headed piston, and two shoes. The double-headed piston includes two shoe holders, a neck, two heads, and two coupling portions. Each of the coupling portions includes an outer portion and an inner portion. A direction orthogonal to both of an opposing direction of the inner portion and the outer portion and the axial direction of the double-headed piston is referred to as a widthwise direction. The neck is larger in the widthwise direction than in the opposing direction so that the neck is deformable in the opposing direction. Each of the two coupling portions has a width that is less than or equal to a width of the neck. The inner portion includes a narrow portion. The narrow portion is at least partially located closer to the head than the shoe holder in the inner portion. The two coupling portions are deformable in the widthwise direction when the swash plate applies load to the double-headed piston.

There is provided a shoe capable of suppressing deformation of a member on which the shoe slides. The shoe includes: a first sliding surface 210 which slides on a concave surface of a piston (first movable member); and a second sliding surface 220 which bulges toward a side opposite to the first sliding surface 210 and slides on a flat surface of a swash plate (second movable member). The second sliding surface 220 includes: a curved outer peripheral portion 221 which is provided along an outer periphery of the second sliding surface 220; and a central portion 222 which is provided at a center of the second sliding surface 220 so as to be continuous with the curved outer peripheral portion 221 and has a radius of curvature greater than a radius of curvature of the curved outer peripheral portion 221.

Provided is a sliding member, method for manufacturing sliding member, and compressor swash plate using sliding member in which adhesion between the substrate and the resin is enhanced, and which has the excellent durability whereby peeling of the resin film from the substrate does not occur due to prolonged sliding even under harsh load conditions. The sliding member provides a substrate irradiated laser light with energy intensity per unit area of 0.053 J/mm.sup.2 or more and configured an uneven part formed toward a vertical direction by the irradiated laser light and a melted and solidified portion on the uneven part and a resin film including solid lubricant and a binder resin on the substrate.

A compression mechanism that can suppress generation of galling and seizure is provided. The compression mechanism includes a bush 60 including a first sliding surface 61 sliding with an inner surface 45a of a bush hole 45 and a second sliding surface 63 sliding with a side surface 52a of a blade of a piston, and includes at least one of a first bulge 62 formed on one of the first sliding surface 61 and the inner surface 45a such that a gap X between the first sliding surface 61 and the inner surface 45a gradually decreases toward a direction in which lubricant Y is drawn between the first sliding surface 61 and the inner surface 45a along with rocking of the bush 60, and a second bulge 64 formed on the second sliding surface 63 such that the gap X between the second sliding surface 63 and the side surface 52a gradually decreases toward a direction in which the lubricant Y is drawn between the second sliding surface 63 and the side surface 52a along with forward and backward movement of the blade.

A swash plate type compressor includes a number of cylinders engaged in a receptacle, a number of pistons slidably engaged in the cylinders and movable relative to the cylinders in a reciprocating action, a spindle rotatably engaged in the receptacle, the receptacle includes a bore for partially receiving the spindle, a spring biasing member is engaged with the spindle, a holder is engaged onto the spindle, a swash plate is attached to the holder and coupled to the pistons for moving the pistons in the reciprocating action in the cylinders, and a control valve plate device is engaged with the cylinders for guiding the air to flow from the inlet chamber of the receptacle into the cylinders and from the cylinders into the discharge chamber of the receptacle.