A double-headed piston swash plate type compressor includes a rotary shaft, a drive force transmitting member, a tiltable swash plate, a movable body that changes the inclination angle of the swash plate, and a control pressure chamber defined by the movable body and the drive force transmitting member, which are arranged on one side with respect to the swash plate in the axial direction of the rotary shaft. The movable body includes a bottom portion, through which the rotary shaft extends, and a cylindrical portion, which extends from the bottom portion in the axial direction of the rotary shaft to surround the rotary shaft. The cylindrical portion is permitted to move in the axial direction while sliding along a part of the drive force transmitting member, so that the inclination angle of the swash plate is changed in accordance with the internal pressure of the control pressure chamber.

A capacity control valve includes, a valve housing having a discharge port, a suction port and a control port; a rod driven by a solenoid, a main valve configured to open and close a communication between the discharge port and the control port; an opening and closing valve biased in a valve closing direction, and configured to open and close a CS communication passage communicating with the suction port and a control fluid supply chamber formed in the valve housing; and a CS valve to open and close a communication between the control port and the suction port, the CS valve body being movable relative to the main valve body, wherein the main valve body and the CS valve body move together as the rod moves in a closed state of the main valve.

A capacity control valve includes a main valve that opens and closes communication between a discharge port and a control port formed in a valve housing by movement of a rod driven by a solenoid, a CS communication passage providing communication between a control fluid supply chamber formed in the valve housing and a suction port, and an on-off valve formed by a communication passage forming member having an annular valve seat in an outer periphery of the CS communication passage and an on-off valve element biased in the valve closing direction with respect to the valve seat.

A swash plate type variable displacement compressor includes a housing having therein a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, a swash plate chamber and a cylinder bore. The compressor further includes a drive shaft and a swash plate that is mounted on the drive shaft for rotation therewith. The compressor further includes a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator and a control mechanism. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a moving body and a pressure control chamber formed between the partitioning body and the moving body into which a refrigerant is introduced from the discharge chamber for moving the moving body. A connecting member and a connecting unit are disposed on radially opposite side of the drive shaft. The compressor further has an urging member that urges the moving body that reduces the inclination angle of the swash plate.

A variable displacement swash compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The swash plate is rotatable together with the drive shaft in a swash plate chamber. The conversion mechanism reciprocates the piston in a cylinder bore. The actuator is operative to change the inclination angle of the swash plate. The actuator is rotatable integrally with the drive shaft. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a movable body, and a control pressure chamber. The control mechanism changes the pressure of the control pressure chamber to move the movable body. The movable body and the link mechanism are located at opposite sides of the swash plate.

A displacement control valve includes a valve housing, a valve element fitted in a guide passage of the valve housing, and a solenoid for driving the valve element to open and close it, a tapered portion is provided at one of an outer peripheral surface of the valve element and a guide surface of the guide passage, and a spiral groove is provided in the other, wherein the tapered portion is set such that a gap between the valve element and the guide passage is larger toward the low-pressure side than on the high-pressure side, and the tapered portion and the spiral groove are provided such that a starting point of the tapered portion is located within the region of the spiral groove in the entire range between the starting point and the ending point of the stroke of the valve element.

A control valve for discharging a liquid refrigerant in a control chamber at the time of start-up of a variable capacity compressor has a movable a center post for increasing the area of a passage for discharging the liquid refrigerant when discharging the liquid refrigerant.

A capacity control valve includes a valve housing provided with a main valve seat; a main valve body that is inserted into the valve housing and includes a main valve portion which is capable of seating on the main valve seat 10a to open and close a communication between a suction port and a control port using a driving force of a solenoid; and a pressure-sensitive body that applies a biasing force to the main valve body in an opening direction according to pressure of a fluid surrounding the pressure-sensitive body. The fluid is supplied from the control port to around the pressure-sensitive body, and the fluid is supplied from the suction port to a back pressure side of the main valve body.

A control valve according to an exemplary embodiment includes an interlocking mechanism that achieves a first operation and a second operation simultaneously or continuously. In the first operation, a sub-valve is opened by having an actuating rod displaced integrally with a sub-valve element in accordance with the magnitude of solenoidal force. In the second operation, a load, by which to bias a main valve element in a closing direction of a main valve, is increased by displacing the actuating rod relative to the main valve element.

A variable-capacity compressor control valve is configured for easily regulating the opening degree of an in-valve release passage, and thus can effectively reduce internal circulation of refrigerant within the compressor and effectively improve the operation efficiency of the compressor. An in-valve large-opening release passage with a relatively large opening degree, which is used during the compressor actuation time, and an in-valve small-opening release passage with a relatively small opening degree, which is used during both the compressor actuation time and the normal control time (i.e., Pd.fwdarw.Pc control time), are formed using different passages.