Abstract: A hydraulic actuation system includes a metering valve; and a piston arrangement hydraulically in parallel with the metering valve, the system configured to preferentially move the piston to precharge an end device with hydraulic fluid prior to supplying an actuation fluid volume to the end device and method for actuating a hydraulic end device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 26, 2009
Publication date:
September 30, 2010
Applicant:
BAKER HUGHES INCORPORTATED
Inventors:
Darrin L. Willauer, Conrad G. Weinig, Walter S. Going