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.

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 inner portion includes a narrow portion and a wide portion. The wide portion projects out of the narrow portion in the widthwise direction and has a larger width than the narrow portion. An outer surface of the wide portion is slidable on a wall surface of the corresponding cylinder bore when the double-headed piston reciprocates in the cylinder bores.

A composition for sliding member includes a binder resin, a solid lubricant, and an epoxy modified silicone oil having an epoxy group at both ends or at one end thereof. A weight ratio of the binder resin and the epoxy modified silicone oil is 97:3 to 75:25.

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 has bosses on the inner faces of the bridges of its pistons that contact the outer face of the swash plate only between the edges to eliminate wear at the edges and to thereby increase the life of the compressor.

A piston (1) having a piston shaft (2), a ball head (3) at one end of the piston shaft (2), and a slider shoe (4) mounted to the ball head (3), wherein the ball head (3) has a through channel (5), the slider shoe (4) has a sliding surface (6) and a through hole (7) in communication with an end of the through channel (5), and a plastic material (8) is arranged in a gap between the slider shoe (4) and the ball head (3) and forms an inner coating (9) of the through hole (7). The production of such a piston should be facilitated. To this end a sealing surface (14) is arranged at the end of the through channel (5) wherein the sealing surface (14) surrounds the opening of the through channel (5) into the through bore (7) and an inner diameter of the sealing surface (14) is smaller than an inner diameter of the inner coating (9) of the through bore (7).

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.

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

The invention relates to a swashplate (5) for a swashplate compressor (1) comprising a main swashplate body (8), which is made from a sintering material, and to a method for producing the swashplate (5).

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.