In a variable displacement type swash plate compressor, a connecting mechanism that connects a movable body and a swash plate includes a first arm having a first guide surface and a second arm having a second guide surface. The first and second arms extend from the movable body toward the swash plate and disposed on opposite sides of an imaginary plane that is defined to extend passing through a top dead center portion and an axis of rotation. The first arm and the second arm have a first opening and a second opening, respectively, that are open in a direction opposite to a direction in which a link pin moves on the first guide surface and the second guide surface with an increase of the inclination angle of the swash plate.

A variable displacement compressor having means for regulating the minimum inclination angle of a swash plate, a spring urging the swash plate in the inclination angle-increasing direction, and a spring urging the swash plate in the inclination angle-decreasing direction. The swash plate inclination angle is a as the sum of the urging forces of both springs is zero, when the drive shaft is not rotated; and, when the drive shaft is rotated, its inclination angle is b at which the sum of moments MS, MF is zero. Moment MS of rotational motion is based on selling the product of inertia in the variable-angle direction of the swash plate to decrease the inclination angle of the swash plate from a. Moment MF is based on the combined urging force of both springs set so that the inclination angle b is positioned at a minimum angle at maximum rotational speed.

A bearing arrangement for a wobble plate piston pump includes first, second, third, and fourth bearing assemblies. The first and second bearing assemblies support the drive shaft portion for rotation within the housing about the central longitudinal axis, while the third and fourth bearing assemblies support the load plate for rotation relative to the offset shaft portion of the shaft. The second bearing assembly is distally disposed from the first, the third disposed distally to second, and the fourth disposed distally to third. The fourth bearing assembly is the most distally disposed bearing assembly along the shaft.

A compressor includes a swash plate rotated with a drive shaft in a swash plate chamber, a link mechanism that changes an inclination angle of the swash plate, an actuator rotated integrally with the drive shaft, and an actuator control mechanism. The actuator includes a partitioning body fitted to the drive shaft in the swash plate chamber, a movable body that is coupled to the swash plate and moved relative to the partitioning body along the axis of the drive shaft, and a control pressure chamber, the pressure of which moves the movable body. The control mechanism changes the pressure of the control pressure chamber to move the movable body. The swash plate includes a fulcrum point, coupled to the link mechanism, and an action point, coupled to the movable body. The fulcrum point and the action point are located at opposite sides of the drive shaft.

An actuator of a variable displacement swash compressor includes a partitioning body that is movable along the axis of a drive shaft, a movable body that changes the inclination angle of a swash plate, and a control pressure chamber defined by the partitioning body and the movable body. The movable body is moved by drawing refrigerant in the control pressure chamber from a discharge chamber. The swash plate is configured to contact and move the partitioning body as the inclination angle increases.

An actuator of a compressor includes a partitioning body, which is rotatable integrally with a drive shaft and loosely fitted to the drive shaft in the swash plate chamber, a movable body, which is coupled to a swash plate and movable relative to the partitioning body along the axis of the drive shaft, and a control pressure chamber, the pressure of which moves the movable body. A control mechanism changes the pressure of the control pressure chamber to move the movable body. A link mechanism shifts a top dead center of a first head of a piston over a longer distance than a top dead center of a second head of the piston when the inclination angle of the swash plate changes. The actuator is located at the same side as the first cylinder bore, which accommodates the first head, as viewed from the swash plate.

The whirling vibration of a rotating main shaft is reduced to decrease abnormal wear of a wobble plate rotation preventing mechanism, so that durability is improved. A inner ring 27 of a wobble plate rotation preventing mechanism 21 has a first support portion 52 of which an outer peripheral surface is supported by an inner peripheral surface of a guide hole 2A of a cylinder block 2 and a second support portion 53 of which an inner peripheral surface supports the rotating main shaft via a plain bearing 51, and the first support portion 52 and the second support portion 53 are arranged to overlap within a range from a minimum inclination angle of a swash plate 8 to a maximum inclination angle of the swash plate 8 in an axial direction of a rotating main shaft 5.

Disclosed herein is a double-headed swash type compressor, and a distance between an outer peripheral surface of a shaft (20) and an inner peripheral surface of a shaft bore (11) is greater than a distance between the outer peripheral surface of the shaft (20) and an inner peripheral surface of a journal bearing (30).

A variable-capacity swash plate-type compressor including: a lug plate coupled to a swash plate so as to be fixed to a driving shaft; and the swash plate coupled to the lug plate and having a varying inclination angle while making a rotational motion. The swash plate includes a body, and first and second arms that protrude from the body toward the lug plate and are spaced apart from each other. The lug plate includes a plate, a center lug arm that protrudes from the plate to be inserted between the first and second arms and is coupled to the body of the swash plate, and left and right lug arms that protrude from the plate to be spaced apart from each other and support both sides of each of the first and second arms.

An oxygen concentrator includes a wobble plate compressor having one or more double-headed pistons and cylinders. A wobble plate of the compressor does not spin as an axle rotates, but orbitally tilts relative to the axle, thereby causing the double-headed pistons to move within the respective cylinders.