Shaft Axis Parallel To Axes Of Working Members (70) Patents (Class 92/71)
  • Patent number: 11401811
    Abstract: Stepper motor with a housing 1,2,4,6,16, in which a cylindrical rotor 11,15 fixed on a central shaft 12 can rotate but not translate along an axial direction. There are cylindrical translators 9, 14 on both sides of the rotors 11, 15, where the translators 9, 14 are sealed fit in a cylindrical space within the housing 6 and around the central shaft 12 and where the translators 9, 14 can only translate in an axial direction, where in one axial position of a translator 9, 14 a set of triangular asymmetric teeth 20 located on the translator 9, 14 can interact and fit into a set of triangular asymmetric teeth 21 on the rotor 11, 15, where the shape of the teeth 21 on both sides of the rotor 11, 15 is symmetric and where one of the sets of teeth 20, 21 between one translator 9 (14) and the rotor 11 (15) and a set of teeth 20, 21 between the other translator 9 (14) and the rotor 11 (15) are tangentially shifted, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Eindhoven Medical Robotics B.V.
    Inventor: Marc Janssens
  • Patent number: 10794372
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kensaku Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9850757
    Abstract: A hydrostatic axial piston machine (1) has a cylinder barrel (7) with a plurality of piston bores having pistons (10) fastened in an articulated manner to a drive flange (3). For articulated fastening of the pistons (10) to the drive flange (3), ball joints (20) are provided that are formed by a spherical cap-shaped receptacle socket (3a) in an end surface (3b) of the drive flange (3) and a ball head (10a) that is operatively connected with the piston (10). The receptacle sockets (3a) are each in the form of hemispheres that extend to the ball equator, and on one end surface (3b) of the drive flange (3), in the vicinity of the receptacle sockets (3a), there is a retaining web (30) that extends beyond the ball equator of the hemisphere to grip the ball head (10a) at an angle of greater than 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Linde Hydraulics GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Martin Bergmann
  • Patent number: 9808894
    Abstract: A swash plate fulfils the basic properties required for a swash plate, which are stable boundary lubricating state by lubricating oil, without forming a metal spray coating layer comprising a copper type or aluminum type material on the surface of a substrate 3a forming the swash plate 3 of the swash plate type compressor as an intermediate layer. The substrate 3a of the swash plate 3 comprises a disk-shaped steel sheet formed by pressing a rolled steel sheet into a disk shape, and both surfaces of the disk-shaped steel sheet are ground. Thus, resin coating layers 10 containing fluororesin, which has superior seizure resistance, can be strongly fixed to the substrate without the need to form a metal spray coating layer on the surface of the substrate. This improves the durability of the swash plate type compressor using carbon dioxide gas as a refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Naonari Tanigawa, Yoshio Oki
  • Patent number: 9586230
    Abstract: A method for coating a lubrication paint on a disk-shaped substrate, comprising: applying the lubrication paint on a sliding portion of the disk-shaped substrate from a paint supply nozzle while rotating the disk-shaped substrate in the horizontal plane; and leveling the lubrication paint applied on the sliding portion by contacting the lubrication paint with a doctor knife that is arranged at a downstream position in the direction of rotation of the disk-shaped substrate. The disk-shaped substrate may be the swash plate of a swash plate compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Tomita, Norio Taniyama, Hiromitsu Shishido, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9441620
    Abstract: A swash plate of a swash plate-type compressor is covered with a resin-based coating layer containing 5 to 60 mass % of spherical graphite particles having an average particle diameter of 5 to 50 ?m, the balance being one or more species selected from polyimide resin and polyamide-imide resin. The spherical graphite particles excepting minute particles having a particle diameter 0.5 times or smaller the average particle diameter, have an average shape coefficient (YAVE) falling within a range of 1 to 4, and 70% or more in number of the spherical graphite particles have a shape coefficient (Y) within a range of 1 to 1.5, YAVE=total[{PMi2/4?Ai}]/i Y=PM2/4?A wherein “total” indicates that a value in [ ] is totalized for number “i”, “PM” indicates the circumferential length of one particle, “A” indicates a cross sectional area of one particle, and “i” indicates the measurement number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nomura, Masanori Akizuki, Hiroshi Kanemitsu
  • Patent number: 9273780
    Abstract: A sliding block for a piston of a hydraulic piston machine, includes a concave recess to receive a piston head and a sliding surface to support the piston. A lubricant channel passes through the sliding block from the concave recess to the sliding surface, and the concave recess transforms with a constant tangent i.e. without kinking into a transition segment of a constantly narrowing taper segment of the lubricant channel. The transition segment is convex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Schnell, Alexander Nestler, Tobias Korte
  • Patent number: 8991300
    Abstract: The present invention provides a variable displacement swash plate type compressor that reduces wear of cylinder bores and the amount of blow-by gas. Each piston of the compressor has a piston main body, which has a distal portion located at an end corresponding to the compression chamber. A tapering portion and an arcuate portion are formed in the distal portion. The arcuate portion is continuous with an end of the tapering portion that is closer to the compression chamber. The tapering portion and the arcuate portion each have a diameter that increases toward the skirt. The tapering portion has a tapering angle that is in a range from 0.45 degrees to 1.5 degrees. The distance between the distal end of the piston main body and a starting point of the tapering portion on an end closer to the skirt is set in a range from 1.5 mm to 5.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Takahiro Moroi, Masakazu Obayashi, Naofumi Kimura, Yoshio Kimoto, Noritaka Nishimori, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Etsuko Hori
  • Patent number: 8985009
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding element, which comprises a support and a coating applied by means of thermal spraying on the support, wherein the coating comprises at least two phases and at least one of the at least two phases is recessed in respect of the other phase of phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Kennedy, Marc-Manuel Matz
  • Patent number: 8939063
    Abstract: A system comprises a first piston comprising a first piston shaft and a first drive pin. A first piston cylinder comprises a first body and a first groove, wherein the first groove defines a first aperture, the first aperture oriented axially along the first body and configured to receive the first drive pin. The first body encloses the first piston and allows the first piston to travel axially within the first piston cylinder. A drive shaft comprises an axis, a drive groove, and a surface, wherein the drive groove forms a continuous channel along the surface and receives the first drive pin. In one embodiment, a first distribution wheel comprises a first face, a second face, a first inlet aperture, and a first outlet aperture. The first distribution wheel couples to the first piston cylinder and to the drive shaft at a first end of the drive shaft, and rotates axially with the drive shaft along the axis of the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: BB Motor Corp, LLC
    Inventor: William Rhett Rechenmacher, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8899943
    Abstract: A double-headed piston type swash plate compressor is provided with a front housing including a suction chamber, a rear housing, a cylinder block, a rotation shaft, and double-headed pistons. The cylinder block includes cylinder bores, a rotation shaft accommodation bore, a communication conduit that communicates the suction chamber with the rotation shaft accommodation bore, and suction passages communicating the rotation shaft accommodation bore to front compression chambers. The rotation shaft includes a groove passage that communicates with the suction passages. Further, the rotation shaft includes an annular groove that communicates the communication conduit with the groove passage. The annular groove includes a front side surface, which is spaced toward the rear housing from an opening of the rotary shaft accommodation bore that faces the front housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Mitsuyo Ishikawa, Jun Kondo
  • Patent number: 8794124
    Abstract: The present embodiments disclose an axial hydraulic pump including a residual pressure regenerating circuit (30) which is a pipe line communicating with a top dead center side communication port (31) and a bottom dead center side communication port (32). Further, the axial hydraulic pump includes cylinder ports (26-1 to 26-8) which are provided in the respective cylinder bores of the cylinder block (6) and are operated with the rotation of the cylinder block (6). Even further, the axial hydraulic pump includes communication holes (41-1 to 41-8) which communicate with the top dead center side communication port (31) and the bottom dead center side communication port (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Iida, Tadashi Nakagawa, Tomohiro Sakai
  • Patent number: 8783161
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wobble plate type variable displacement compressor that uses a constant velocity universal joint mechanism, which comprises an inner ring and an outer ring, balls that are held between guide grooves of the inner ring and the outer ring to transmit power, wherein a wobble plate is connected and fixed to the outer ring. In the compressor, at least any one of the guide grooves opposing each other of the inner and outer rings is formed along a guide groove cross-sectional profile to come into contact with a ball at two points. With this wobble plate type variable displacement compressor using the specified constant velocity universal joint mechanism, the ball retaining structure between the inner and outer rings in the wobble plate rotation preventing mechanism can be improved, and desired power transmission can be stably performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Tagami
  • Patent number: 8720316
    Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump includes a housing and a swash plate which is mounted in the housing and is arranged in an oil space of the housing. A drive shaft is connected to the swash plate and passes through a housing opening, and with a seal for the drive shaft, which seal is mounted in the housing in the region of the housing opening. The high-pressure fuel pump has a plurality of pump elements for sucking up, compressing and ejecting fuel, which pump elements can be acted upon consecutively by the rotatable swash plate. In a pump of this type, the fuel pump has at least one magnet, the magnetic force field of which acts on the oil space of the housing. Premature wear of the pump, in particular premature wear of the seal, is avoided since the magnet separates off iron-containing dirt particles found in the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Deeg
  • Patent number: 8668469
    Abstract: The present disclosure sets forth an axial piston pump with greatly improved throughput. The axial piston pump provides cylinders, antechambers, and fluid flow apertures which are uniquely shaped and dimensioned so as to increase the overall flowability and expulsion rate of the piston pump. By providing curvilinear transition zones and fluid flow apertures, the cylinders can be completely filled and pressurized even at the extremely high pressures and RPMs required by modern machines. Such machines may include front-end loaders, excavators, pipe layers, graders, and the like wherein such pumps can be used to power hydraulic cylinders moving the implements, work arms and other tools associated with such machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Fritz, Jeremiah C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8627758
    Abstract: An axial piston pump, comprising a cylinder block having one or more cylinder bores; and one or more piston assemblies; wherein number of piston assemblies matches number of cylinder bores; wherein each of the piston assemblies having a piston being disposed reciprocating in each of the cylinder bores; and wherein each piston being fitted with a metallic sealing ring, which is a coiled felt seal (CFS), for reducing leakage and keeping concentric of the piston within its corresponding cylinder bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Neo Mechanics Limited
    Inventor: Kyong Tae Chang
  • Patent number: 8621977
    Abstract: A reciprocating piston engine, particularly a coolant compressor for motor vehicles, includes at least one piston movably supported in a cylinder. A pivot element in the form of a pivot ring is supported on a guide body attached to a shaft in an axially movable fashion such that the pivot element can execute a pivot motion. The pivot motion causes movement of the at least one piston. Spring forces of at least one return spring act on the pivot element in the direction of a start position in which the pivot element is pivoted at a starting pivot angle to a plane on which the rotary axis of the shaft stands upright. At least one further spring element acts on the return spring with an initial tension when the pivot element is in the start position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: IXETIC MAC GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Sieber, Tilo Schäfer, Jan Hinrichs
  • Patent number: 8549985
    Abstract: A compressor reciprocates pistons via a wabble plate wabbled while being prevented from rotating. A wabble plate rotation preventing mechanism is constructed as a mechanism comprising an inner ring axially movable relative to a main shaft, an outer ring connected to the wobble plate, a plurality of balls placed between guide grooves of the inner and outer rings and performing power transmission, and a sleeve axially movably engaged with the inner ring, provided so as to be axially movable together with the inner ring, and functioning as a central member for wabbling of the wabble plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Tagami
  • Patent number: 8485794
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a reciprocating compressor with a rotary valve comprises a cylinder block with plural cylinder bore, a drive shaft which is supported and permitted to rotate in relation to the cylinder block, a piston which is housed in the cylinder bore and allowed to reciprocate therein, a power transmitting unit which connects the piston and drive shaft, a rear housing wherein an intake chamber and exhaust chamber are formed, and a rotary valve which rotates with the drive shaft and is installed in the inner surface of a coupling hole formed in the cylinder block and permitted to slide and rotate therein. In the inner circumference of the cylinder block, connection holes are respectively connected to the cylinder bore. A bypass unit is included between the coupling hole and rotary valve and bypasses the refrigerant remaining in the connection hole of one cylinder bore during the compressive stroke of the piston, then discharges it through the connection hole of another cylinder bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignees: Doowon Technical College, Doowon Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geon Ho Lee, Dong Hui Lee, Seok Bong Lee, Ki Beom Kim, Joung Hyun Park
  • Publication number: 20130167713
    Abstract: A shoe for a swash plate type compressor is disposed between a swash plate provided on a rotational shaft in an inclined manner, the swash plate being configured to be rotated together with the rotational shaft, and a piston configured to be reciprocated in a direction in which the rotational shaft extends, by means of the rotation of the swash plate. The shoe for swash plate type compressor includes a flat surface in contact with the swash plate, and a spherical surface in contact with a semispherical slide surface formed on the piston. A through-hole communicating the flat surface and the spherical surface with each other is formed between the flat surface and the spherical surface. The through-hole is composed of a first through-hole having a first diameter and a second through-hole having a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Naitoh Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuichi Naitoh
  • Patent number: 8475141
    Abstract: A pump assembly 10 for high pressure cleaners having a pump body 12 encasing the free end 14 of a motor shaft provided with a keyed-on wobble plate 16 which moves one or more than one axial pistons 18 that are elastically tensioned by helical springs 20. The pump assembly also includes a pump head 32 fixed to the pump body 12 provided with fluid inlet and outlet conduits and relative valves, and an intermediate housing 34 for receiving and guiding the piston 18. The intermediate housing 34 has a frustoconical-shaped body with its larger diametered bottom section facing the same-diametered pump body 12 and being secured thereto by screws 36.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: IP Cleaning S.p.A.
    Inventor: Italo DaRif
  • Patent number: 8430018
    Abstract: A device for coupling a piston to an annular disc, in particular to a captive C-washer/swash plate or to a pivot ring of the working unit of a reciprocating-piston machine, preferably of a compressor of the air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, having a piston bridge which is assigned to the piston and sliding shoes which are assigned to the annular disc, wherein the piston bridge engages at least partially around or over the annular disc and is in sliding engagement with the annular disc by means of the sliding shoes, is characterized in that the piston bridge is of two-layer design at least on the side facing towards the piston. The invention also relates to a reciprocating-piston machine having a device according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: ixeric MAC GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Hohmann
  • Patent number: 8419382
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a cam, a cylinder block, pistons, a thrust bearing, a rotary valve, and an oil passage. The rotary shaft has an in-shaft passage formed therein. The in-shaft passage has an outlet open to the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft. The cam rotates integrally with the rotary shaft. The pistons are coupled to the rotary shaft through the cam. The thrust bearing is provided between the cam and the cylinder block. The thrust bearing includes a first race in contact with the cam, a second race in contact with the cylinder block, and rolling elements retained between the first and second races to form a gap therebetween. The oil passage is formed in the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft so as to extend from the gap to the outlet of the in-shaft passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shinichi Sato, Manabu Sugiura, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8348631
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lubricant or hydraulic pump for delivering oil or the like having a housing which is formed from two housing shells which are of at least substantially similar or identical construction. An inlet is provided on or in the housing. Furthermore, a rotatably mounted drive element, which is configured, in particular, as a swash plate, and at least one pump element which interacts with the drive element to deliver oil or the like are arranged in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Lincoln GmbH
    Inventors: Zdravko Paluncic, Andreas Schoenfeld
  • Patent number: 8333571
    Abstract: A pump is disclosed. The pump may have a housing, and a body disposed within the housing and at least partially defining a plurality of barrels. The pump may also have a plurality of plungers associated with the plurality of barrels, and a plunger engagement surface. The plunger engagement surface may have geometry configured to reciprocate the plurality of plungers within the plurality of barrels as the plurality of plungers rotate relative to the plunger engagement surface, and a plurality of undulations configured to reduce a flow pulsation of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Viral S. Mehta, Bryan E. Nelson
  • Patent number: 8327751
    Abstract: A wabble plate type variable displacement compressor comprises a rotation preventing mechanism of the wabble plate which includes (a) an inner ring provided movably in the axial direction although rotation is prevented, supporting a main shaft at the inner diameter portion to rotate relatively and to move relatively in the axial direction and having a plurality of guide grooves for guiding a plurality of balls provided for power transmission, (b) a sleeve functioning as a wabble central member of wabble movement of the wabble plate, provided on the main shaft to rotate relatively thereto and to move in the axial direction and engaging with the inner ring movably in the axial direction, (c) an outer ring having a plurality of guide grooves for guiding balls at positions opposing respective guide grooves in the inner ring, supported on the sleeve wabblingly, supporting the wabble plate fixedly on the outer circumference and supporting a swash plate rotatably via a bearing, and (d) a plurality of balls held by t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Tagami
  • Patent number: 8322270
    Abstract: A reciprocating piston machine, such as an air-conditioning compressor for motor vehicles, having a housing, a rotationally drivable shaft, a shaft sealing device, in particular a mechanical shaft seal, at least one radial shaft bearing, especially a radial rolling-contact bearing, and at least one axial shaft bearing, in particular an axial rolling-contact bearing, a bearing sleeve which accommodates at least the radial shaft bearing, being configured within an opening in the housing, extending into the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: LUK Fahrzeug-Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jan Hinrichs
  • Publication number: 20120291625
    Abstract: A swash plate assembly includes a mounting flange. A center ring is disposed in the mounting flange and is rotatable relative to the mounting flange about a center ring axis of rotation. A swash plate is disposed in the center ring and is rotatable relative to the center ring about a swash plate axis of rotation. The swash plate assembly includes a first plurality of balls disposed between the mounting flange and the center ring and a second plurality of balls disposed between the center ring and the swash plate. The center ring defines an inner raceway adapted to receive the first plurality of balls and the center ring defines an outer raceway adapted to receive the second plurality of balls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLER BEARING COMPANY OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Alex Habibvand
  • Publication number: 20120279387
    Abstract: An axial piston machine having a swashplate design includes a cylinder drum that is rotatably supported in a housing and that has a plurality of cylinder bores, which have pistons that can be slid longitudinally in said cylinder bores and that are supported on a swashplate. The aim of the disclosure is to achieve an improvement in the efficiency with a short length design by means of reducing the lost forces. The aim is achieved in that no force components act on the pistons in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Spielvogel
  • Patent number: 8276503
    Abstract: An axial piston machine includes a housing and pistons situated in cylinder bores of a rotatable cylinder member, which pistons are supported on a pivoting cradle, the pivoting cradle being supported via at least one pivoting bearing having a bearing gap that has fluid acting on it. The axial piston machine further includes a control and/or regulating device is provided for the control and/or regulation of the fluid pressure in the bearing gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Cichon
  • Patent number: 8272315
    Abstract: A dual pump apparatus having two pumps mounted in a housing, where the housing comprises two elements mounted on opposite sides of a hydraulic mounting member or center section. The pumps are mounted on one side of the hydraulic mounting member in a pump cavity, and the hydraulic mounting member and second housing element form a drive cavity in which gears or an endless coupling member such as a chain or belt to connect the two pump input shafts are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Raymond Hauser, Lonnie E. Holder
  • Patent number: 8267006
    Abstract: An axial piston intended for an axial piston machine and comprised of at least two components forming a driving part and a compressing part. To enable manufacture of the axial piston in an easy and inexpensive way while simultaneously reducing the weight, the components are manufactured by a solid forming process and joined together by a capacitor discharge welding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Neumayer Tekfor Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Malm, Renald Kuempel
  • Patent number: 8262368
    Abstract: A hydraulic piston machine includes a plurality of pistons (12, 14) which are driven by a drive/output shaft (40), guided in an axially displaceable manner in a piston barrel (4) of a housing (2), and, in each case, bound one working chamber (44) into which the pressure medium may be fed via a suction valve (46), and from which the pressure medium may be discharged via a pressure valve (48). The housing (2) includes at least one further housing part (6) which is connected to the piston barrel (4) on the front side. The suction valves (46) and pressure valves (48) are situated in the region of a parting plane (50) between the housing parts (4, 6), in housing receptacles (52, 54), approximately axially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the piston machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Brian Kane, Thomas Seufert
  • Patent number: 8230773
    Abstract: Axial piston compressor, especially a compressor for the air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, having a housing and, for drawing in and compressing a coolant, a compressor unit arranged in the housing and driven by means of a drive shaft, the compressor unit comprising pistons, which move axially back and forth in a cylinder block, and a tilt plate 10 (tilt ring; wobble plate or swash plate), which drives the pistons and rotates together with the drive shaft, wherein the tilt plate 10 or a tiltable part thereof associated therewith has locations 14, 15 of reduced amassing of material and/or locations which consist of a material which is different from the material from which the rest of the tilt plate 10 or tiltable part thereof is made, those locations bringing about a specific effect on the regulation behavior of the compressor in such a way that in a region of small tilt angles of the tilt plate 10 or tiltable part thereof, especially in a tilt angle range from 0° to 8°, especially 0° to 3°, a moment
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Valeo Compressor Europe GmbH
    Inventor: Otfried Schwarzkopf
  • Patent number: 8197229
    Abstract: A double-headed piston type compressor includes front and rear housings, a cylinder block defining therein a crank chamber and a plurality of cylinder bores and having a shaft hole therethrough, a double-headed piston accommodated in the cylinder bores for reciprocating therein, a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the shaft hole, compression chambers defined by the cylinder bores, a suction chamber defined by the front housing and an introduction passage having a rotary valve for introducing refrigerant from the suction chamber into the compression chambers. The introduction passage includes a communication passage formed in the cylinder block for connecting the suction chamber to the shaft hole, suction passages connecting the shaft hole and the compression chambers and a recessed passage formed in the outer circumferential surface of the rotary shaft for connecting intermittently between the communication passage and the respective suction passages in accordance with the rotation of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Tsubasa Mitsui, Shinichi Sato, Manabu Sugiura, Keishi Nakagaki, Akio Saiki
  • Patent number: 8147214
    Abstract: Provided is a compressor having an enhanced capability of supplying oil to a thrust bearing and a radial bearing which are interposed between a center through-hole in a cylinder block and a driving shaft. To this end, the compressor 1 has an air bleed passage 31 which is configured to allow crank chamber 5 and intake chamber 7 to communicate with each other, including: a first space S1 in the center through-hole 14; a communicating part 41 for allowing the first space S1 and a second space S2 to communicate with each other; the second space S2 in the center through-hole 14; a penetrating passage 43 formed to pass through the driving shaft 10, thereby allowing the second space S2 and a third space S3 to communicate with each other; the third space S3; and a communicating passage 45 for allowing the third space S3 and an intake chamber 7 to communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuichi Hirose
  • Patent number: 8137078
    Abstract: An axial piston machine, especially an air-conditioning compressor for motor vehicles, including a power unit which is rotatably driven by a shaft and in which the rotary movement is converted, via a swash plate, a wobble plate, or a pivot ring, into a fore-and-aft movement of pistons that suction in and compress pressure media. The shaft is mounted in a forward, first axial bearing, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: ixetic MAC GmbH
    Inventor: Jan Hinrichs
  • Patent number: 8133036
    Abstract: A low pressure fluid powered motor or pump comprises a non-rotatable cover (k); an undulating lobe cam track (e) attached to the cover (k) and defining multiple crests and troughs; a rotatable cylinder block (c); at least three reciprocating pistons (d) each housed within a bore of the cylinder block (c) and each providing at one end a crown (d1), and at the other end a spherical seating cup (d2); a ball (f), adapted to engage with the cam track (e); a non-rotatable manifold block (n) incorporating a plurality of ports (s), each being radially disposed at equal intervals in an end face of the manifold block adjacent the pistons (d), with the ports (s) linked to galleries connected to a higher pressure delivery circuit, and a lower pressure return circuit, with the angular arrangement of the ports (s) being such that the higher pressure is supplied to the crown (d1) of each piston (d) only while the piston (d) is moving from a crest to a trough of the cam track (e), with a switch to the lower fluid pressure ci
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hydrodrives Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Brisland, Margaret Lavina Brisland, legal representative
  • Patent number: 8118566
    Abstract: In a piston-type compressor in which a working fluid is taken in through an intake port is first compressed with pistons and is then let out through an outlet port, an axial hole ranging along the axial direction and a radial hole communicating with the axial hole and opening into a crankcase are formed within the shaft. Additionally, a first intake passage through which the working fluid having flowed in through the intake port is guided via the crankcase to the radial hole and the axial hole and a second intake passage through which the working fluid having flowed in through the intake port is guided to join the working fluid having been drawn into the first intake passage by bypassing the crankcase are formed in the compressor. The working fluid is taken into cylinders from the area where the first working fluid and the second working fluid join each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Valeo Thermal Systems Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Takahashi, Yoshihiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 8096228
    Abstract: A bent axis hydromodule that has a yoke that is rotatable about trunnions and rotating kits having rotating kit shafts that are in fluid communication with the yoke. Servo piston porting is integrated within the yoke and positioned about the trunnion such that servo pistons are in fluid communication with the servo piston porting and operable to rotate the yoke about a trunnion axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sauer-Danfoss Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Wright, Doug Kardell, Russell Peters
  • Patent number: 8092193
    Abstract: A self-lubricating water-cooled piston-style water pump has a unitary pump housing with a crankcase in direct water communication with the water pump inlet. A low pressure chamber is in direct water communication with the crankcase. A compression chamber is in direct pressurized water communication with a high pressure water manifold through a one-way valve. A high pressure water pump outlet extends outwardly from the manifold to the exterior of the housing. A crankshaft is connected to a connecting rod and a plunger rod, both of which are lubricated and water-cooled in the crankcase. A compression plunger has water channels therethrough connected to the plunger rod and in water communication with the low pressure chamber. The plunger is reciprocal within the compression chamber. A second one-way valve is on the plunger in the compression chamber to let water into the compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Diversified Dynamics Corporation
    Inventor: Steve Larson
  • Patent number: 8047810
    Abstract: A double-headed piston type compressor connected with an external device is provided. The compressor includes a plurality of cylinder bore pairs, double-headed pistons, a first rotary valve, a second rotary valve, first suction passages, and second suction passages. In each cylinder bore pair, a first time period from a first top dead center timing, which is timing when the double-headed piston reaches a top dead center in a first compression chamber, to a first communication start timing, which is timing when a first introduction passage starts to communicate with a first suction passage, is different from a second time period from a second top dead center timing, which is timing when the double-headed piston reaches a top dead center in a second compression chamber, to a second communication start timing, which is timing when the second introduction passage starts to communicate with a second suction passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Manabu Sugiura, Akio Saiki, Norikazu Deto, Kazuhiro Hotta
  • Patent number: 8047166
    Abstract: A machine includes a piston disposed in a housing and configured to reciprocate in the housing. At least one valve is coupled to the housing. A magnetically-geared valve actuation system is coupled to the at least one valve. A plurality of sensors is configured to detect a plurality of parameters related to the machine. A control system is coupled to the plurality of sensors and the magnetically-geared valve actuation system. The magnetically-geared valve actuation system is configured to actuate the at least one valve in response to reciprocation of the piston in the housing, signals originating from the sensors or control system, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Herbert Kopecek, Michal-Wolfgang Waszak
  • Patent number: 8037808
    Abstract: An axial piston machine utilizing a swashplate design has a cylinder drum (3) that is mounted so that it can rotate around an axis of rotation (2). The cylinder drum (3) is provided with cylinder bores (4), in each of which a piston (5) is mounted so that it can be displaced longitudinally. The pistons (5) are each supported by a sliding shoe (7) on a swashplate (8). The sliding shoes (7) are in a functional connection by means of a retaining device (16), in particular a retaining plate (15), that rotates synchronously with the cylinder drum (3). The sliding shoes (7) are in a functional connection with a moment generating device (25), by means of which an opposing moment can be generated on the sliding shoes (7) that counteracts the tipping moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Linde Material Handling GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Bergmann
  • Patent number: 8007250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressor, which includes a main refrigerant supply channel for supplying refrigerant by passing through the inside of a driving shaft and an auxiliary refrigerant supply channel for supplying refrigerant by passing through a suction chamber of front and rear housings and a slot of the driving shaft after passing through cylinder blocks in order to supply the refrigerant inhaled into a swash plate chamber to cylinder bores, thereby enhancing performance and lubricating ability of a driving shaft seal area since the refrigerant of the swash plate chamber can be used effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Halla Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Kweonsoo Lim, Mingyu Kim, Duckbin Yoon
  • Patent number: 7997879
    Abstract: An axial piston machine of swash-plate construction includes a cylinder block (2) rotatable in a housing (1) and supported in the axial direction against a valve plate (6a) arranged on a housing component (7), a driving shaft (8) coupled in a rotationally synchronous manner to the cylinder block (2), and a cylinder block bearing (10) absorbing transverse forces. In order to achieve a simple construction which is axially and radially compact, the cylinder block bearing (10) is arranged between a central recess (9) of the cylinder block (2) and a supporting journal (7a) fastened to the housing component (7) and extending into the recess (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Linde Material Handling GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Bergmann
  • Patent number: 7997880
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressor, which can inhale refrigerant supplied to a swash plate chamber to cylinder bores through the inside of a driving shaft so that a flow channel structure is simplified, thereby enhancing a suction volumetric efficiency by reducing a loss due to flow channel resistance and elastic resistance, and enhancing a compression efficiency by uniformly distributing refrigerant to the cylinder bores located at both sides of the swash plate chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Halla Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Kweonsoo Lim, Mingyu Kim, Jeongjae Lee, Duckbin Yoon
  • Publication number: 20110192276
    Abstract: An axial piston machine of swashplate design includes a cylindrical drum which is rotatably supported in a housing and has a plurality of cylindrical bores with pistons longitudinally displaceable therein which rest against a swashplate via a joint. The joint has a first joint part with a spherical head and a second joint part with a spherical seat for the head. The joint can be manufactured quickly and using simple, economical production engineering, in that the first joint part is rotatably held in the second joint part, which has an annular groove in the inner surface of a tubular edge, into which a wire has been introduced through a bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventor: Christian Spielvogel
  • Patent number: 7988428
    Abstract: A pressure pump in a primary liquid flow is combined with a pressure exchanger for energy recovery from a secondary liquid flow. A motor-driven rotor portion, including two (primary and secondary) rotatable drum-type cylinder assemblies, is disposed between end blocks configured with input/output ports and cavities forming sliding synchronous reversing valves. Interconnected piston assemblies, including at least one primary piston and one secondary piston, are reciprocated axially by a central angled swash-plate in a progressive sequential manner by rotation of the rotor portion. The combination machine can be optimized for beneficial deployment in a reverse osmosis seawater desalination system to provide unusual simplicity, high efficiency energy recovery from the brine discharge flow and low overall operating cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Inventor: John P. MacHarg
  • Patent number: 7975600
    Abstract: The invention relates to an axial piston machine, in addition to a swash-plate for said machine and a method for producing a swash-plate. The swash-plate (24) is configured as a disc and has a central bore (32), which is encompassed by a collar (39), extending in an axial direction from a first surface (34, 34?) of the swash-plate (24). In addition, the swash-plate (24) has several sliding block receiving openings (36), each of the latter (36) being encompassed by a guide collar (38), which extends in an axial direction from a second surface of the swash-plate (24), in the opposite direction to the collar (39) of the central bore (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Brueninghaus Hydromatik GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Beck