Patent ID: 8430650

Claim:
A reciprocative compressor comprising: a cylinder having a longitudinal cylinder axis; a swing piston having a longitudinal piston axis with one end side as a connecting portion rotatably connected to a crankshaft and the other end side swingably reciprocating in the cylinder as the piston moves between top dead center and bottom dead center, the piston comprising a receiving portion, a ring holding member, and a top flange portion at the other end side of the piston; and a piston ring groove located on an outer circumferential side of the piston formed by the top flange portion and the ring holding member; a piston ring attached to the piston ring groove to seal between the piston and an inner surface of the cylinder; a ring groove on the outer circumferential side of the piston at the crankshaft side of the piston ring groove; the ring groove provided separately from the piston ring groove and axially separated from the piston ring groove along the longitudinal piston axis; and a guide ring provided in the ring groove axially separated from the piston ring groove having a skirt section extending away from the piston ring and restricted from moving in a radial direction by contact between a skirt section outer surface and the inner surface of the cylinder such that the guide ring skirt section does suppress radial movement of said piston ring when said longitudinal piston axis is tilted with respect to said longitudinal cylinder axis.