Pump Fluid Biased Overcenter Load Equalizer Patents (Class 417/210)
  • Patent number: 8620527
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a vehicle control system. The control system includes a steering control coupled to at least one steerable wheel, the steering control having a first position, a second position and a plurality of positions therebetween. The control system also includes a steering sensor coupled to the steering control and configured to generate steering sensor signals based upon the position of the steering control. The control system also includes a control module coupled to the steering sensor, the control module configured to (i) record a first steering sensor signal value when the steering control is in the first position; (ii) record a second steering sensor signal value when the steering control is in the second position; and (iii) determine a current position of the steering control by comparing the first and second steering sensor signal values with a current steering sensor signal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Acellerated Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Terence Wade Stone, Robert Gordon Lankin
  • Patent number: 7798282
    Abstract: A hybrid electrical power assist system (EPAS) for an automotive vehicle that utilizes the advantages of a conventional EPAS system to provide power assist based upon several distinct sensor inputs, in a heavy duty vehicle that requires significantly more assistance forces than a conventional EPAS can provide. The hybrid system utilizes a hydraulic amplifier that is connected to receive the torque output from an EPAS motor actuator and responsively provide a fluid under differential pressure through a pair of high pressure lines to a steering piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: John C. Crossman
  • Patent number: 7445435
    Abstract: A positive displacement pump for pumping fluids from a downhole formation to the earth's surface is provided. The pump first comprises a plunger. The plunger is reciprocated axially within the wellbore by a linear actuator, such as a submersible electrical pump, in order to form an upstroke and a downstroke. A pump inlet is disposed near the bottom end of the plunger, while a pump outlet is disposed near the top end of the plunger. The pump is configured such that it is able to pump a first volume of fluid upward within the wellbore during the pump's upstroke, and a second volume of fluid upward within the wellbore during the pump's downstroke. Thus, the pump is “double-acting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Weatherford/Lamb, Inc.
    Inventor: William F. Howard
  • Publication number: 20080152522
    Abstract: A pump powered partly by a mechanical drive and partly by a pressurised fluid flow, offering energy savings up to 90% in reverse osmosis systems. The pump consists of one or more piston-in-cylinder assemblies. One face of each piston provides a pumping action while a pressurised driving fluid flow is applied to the opposite piston face, thus supplementing the drive force applied to each piston via a piston rod. Input and output of the pumped flow is controlled by pump valves of a non-return poppet type operated by the pumped flow. Input and output of the driving fluid is controlled by poppet-type valves controlled by connection to the pump valves. There are means to control piston movement relative to the cylinder and to the piston rod, and a two-part pump valve to simplify connection to the motor valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventor: Colin Pearson
  • Patent number: 6736604
    Abstract: First and second fluid pressure chambers are formed in both sides of a movement direction of a cam ring swingably placed within a pump body. A spool of a control valve is moved due to a pressure difference between the front and back of a metering orifice. Fluid pressures of the fluid pressure chambers are controlled. The cam ring is swung. Further, a solenoid for giving thrust in an axial direction thereof to the spool of the control valve and electronic control device for controlling driving of the solenoid are provided. The electronic control device has a steering sensor and determines a steering direction based on a signal from the steering sensor and also calculates a steering speed to the steering direction and controls a driving current of the solenoid in response to this steering speed and changes a discharge flow rate of a pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Unisia JKC Steering Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Okada, Yukihisa Kosugi, Minoru Masaki, Takashi Nakamura