Patents Assigned to Mannesmann Rexroth
  • Patent number: 6021813
    Abstract: An electromagnetically actuated directional valve wherein the armature chambers are in communication with the source of working fluid via an inlet throttle and with the tank connection via an outlet throttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Rainer Imhof, Manfred Siegler
  • Patent number: 5996615
    Abstract: Disclosed is a 2-way flow control valve whereby a constant hydraulic fluid volume flow may be adjusted by serial arrangement of a restrictor orifice and a control orifice. In the case of a reverse flow through the flow control valve of the present invention, a check actuating element of the flow control valve may be displaced against the bias of its own check spring in such a way that a bypass channel which bypasses the restrictor orifice can be controlled open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Juergen Zuegner, Karl Cords, Hans Mueller, Michael Schulte
  • Patent number: 5974800
    Abstract: A device for the operation of a hydrostatic drive (1) having a periodically operable switch valve (2) which connects a resonant pipe (4) connected with the hydrostatic drive (1) for the formation of standing pressure waves in the hydraulic fluid under resonant conditions alternately to a pressure-fluid supply line (5) and to a return line (6). In order to create advantageous control condition, the resonant pipe (4) has a pressure outlet (7) in an oscillation node in the standing pressure waves, and that the switch times of the switch valve (2) be controllable with constant switch frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Scheidl, Werner Leitner, Gerald Riha, Dietmar Schindler
  • Patent number: 5975488
    Abstract: A lifting magnet arrangement. The arrangement has a thrust direction in which a pressure spring which biases the armature into its basic position may be set. This is done by an actuating section designed to project from the magnet housing. By using this configuration it is not necessary to open the magnet housing for adjustment so that the adjusting process may be carried out with an oil-floated armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Rainer Imhof, Torsten Witte
  • Patent number: 5975233
    Abstract: A hydraulic system for a motor vehicle includes a hydraulic pump which has a hydraulic steering device including a steering motor and a steering valve which is movable from an intermediate position in opposing directions and by which hydraulic fluid lines to and from the steering motor are controlled. A ventilator motor with the bypass line are placed in series with the steering device between the latter and the hydraulic pump. The bypass valve aids the distribution of fluid flow through the ventilator motor and the bypass line for adjustment of the fluid flow in accordance with required cooling power. The bypass valve can be adjusted to allow more hydraulic fluid to flow through the bypass line during actuation of the steering valve, thereby to lower the system pressure for reduced cost and complexity of the hydraulic pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventor: Egon Eisenbacher
  • Patent number: 5943962
    Abstract: A device for compensating for the transverse forces acting on a rail vehicle whose car body is supported via spring action on at least one undercarriage and which can be displaced via a transverse compensator in transverse direction with respect to the undercarriage, a transverse spring action is associated for the buffering of dynamic oscillations, which can be connected or disconnected optionally as a function of the condition of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Gundolf Birkhahn, Manfred Dusing, Karl Lengl, Yuan Lu, Wolfgang Schafer
  • Patent number: 5934324
    Abstract: Manually operated remote control device comprising a body (1) enclosing at least one movable member generating a signal associated with an axially movable pushrod (2) projecting upwards from the body (1); a fixing plate (3) closing the top of the body and provided with at least one drilling (5) through which the abovementioned pushrod passes; a rocking cam (6) fixed to the top of the body (1) so as to cooperate with the projecting end of the pushrod (2) and control the movement of the latter; a grip (9, 10) secured to the cam (6) and incorporating at least one electric control member (11) to which is connected an electrical cable (12) passing through the abovementioned fixing plate (3) via an opening (13) in the latter; the opening (13) is elongate and runs transversely from one edge of the plate (3), opening out into the said edge, by virtue of which the electrical cable, preassembled and pre-equipped, can be put in place in the device by being inserted into the opening transversely from the edge of the plat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth S.A.
    Inventor: Michel Bessard
  • Patent number: 5913333
    Abstract: In a hydraulically actuatable directional control valve the servo-piston of which is to be controlled by electromagnetically actuatable pilot valves of small nominal size developed as insertion cartridges integrated in the directional control valve housing, the hydraulic connection between the pilot valves and the directional control valve are effected via channels extending in the directional control valve housing, the channels in the directional control valve housing are produced as cast channels, in particular for mass production, and the connections of the pilot valves are adapted to the size and arrangement of these channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Rainer Biener, Richard Rauscher, Winfried Rub
  • Patent number: 5911407
    Abstract: In the case of cast housing bodies with highly stressed regions of the housing, and in particular in the case of housings for valves with control pistons, the regions of the housings subjected to high stresses are developed as independent parts from a material which withstands the stressing and forms a cast unit together with the housing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Lukasczyk, Karl Rub
  • Patent number: 5871201
    Abstract: In an electromagnet with sleeve-shaped magnet housing with integrated valve body, in particular for the actuating of valves, the pole core is developed as a separate part and is surrounded by the sleeve-shaped magnet housing. The magnet housing has inward-directed corrugations distributed uniformly over its circumference which serve as axial support for the pole core in the direction of the electric windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Marius Cornea, Helmut Patze, Franz-Josef Schleifstein
  • Patent number: 5868160
    Abstract: A two-way insert valve having an insert assembly which can be installed in a receiving bore hole and having a valve cover for closing the receiving bore hole, the insert assembly consisting of two parts, has a bush with several radial passages and with an axial passage and a ring arranged between the bush and the valve cover and has a valve piston by which a connection between the radial passages and the axial passage can be controlled and which is displaceable in opening direction up to a stop. A closing spring urges the valve piston in closed direction. The valve piston in its closed position is guided by the bush at least approximately up to the first end of the bush facing the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Karl Cords, Hubert Feser, Karlheinz Hunschede, Gotz-Dieter Machat, Georg Rausch
  • Patent number: 5860484
    Abstract: Hydraulic device for directional control of a vehicle using a single lever. The device includes a hydraulic manipulator (1) with four outlets, forward/reverse and right/left. A selection device (4) with four selectors (5) in a bridge is connected to the manipulator, and the outputs are connected to four motors for reverse-left, forward-left and reverse-right and forward-right control of the running components of the vehicle. A slide valve (7) with two positions, respectively one with direct connections and one with crossed connections, is inserted into the two feed lines of the motors (6 AVG, 6 AVD or respectively 6 ARG, 6 ARD). A control input (10) of the slide valve is connected to the FORWARD and REVERSE outputs of the manipulator, by virtue of which the control of the vehicle remains fully ergonomic, including for a rotation of the vehicle about a central vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth S.A.
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kauss
  • Patent number: 5857479
    Abstract: A precontrolled three-way pressure reduction valve having essentially vibration-free operation is encased in a cartridge and has a hollow control piston wherein a working fluid space is formed as a T-shaped cavity within the control piston. In the cavity, there are axial and transverse bores of approximately the same diameter. A groove encircles the control piston, and has a width which is slightly larger than a diameter of the transverse bore, the transverse bore communicating with the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Karl Cords, Gotz-Dieter Machat, Karl-Josef Meyer, Michael Schulte, Wilfried Stroka
  • Patent number: 5857333
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control system for hydraulic power units, in particular hydraulic cylinder-piston-assemblies comprising a valve to be controlled by an electronic controller, the valve controlling the fluid path between the power unit, a pressure source and a reservoir. A pressure sensor and a circuit for differentiating the sensed pressure quantity in response to time is provided for sensing a respective output variable of the power unit. The pressure variation signal is utilized to assist operating the valve to improve the control operation, i.e. to dampen fluid vibrations or to decrease the hammering noise produced in the operation of stamping, nibbling or shearing machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Schmidt, Michael Reinert, Joachim Neumann
  • Patent number: 5852933
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive system for a hydraulic press. The drive system is of the type of secondary controlled system maintaining an impressed pressure of substantially constant magnitude in a pressure system. A hydraulic transformer comprises a pair of mechanically coupled hydrostatic machines each having a variably capacity. The first machine is connected to the pressure system and the second machine to the press cylinder. The invention provides a drive system in which biasing the press cylinder, rapid tranverse and pressing stroke, decompressing the fluid and flushing of hot fluid is accomplished in a closed loop free of throttling losses. The hydraulic transformer further allows to recover energy to the pressure system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5832807
    Abstract: A hydraulic control for a dividing machine tool, in particular a shear or cutting press, in which a damping device is provided in order to counteract a sudden downward movement of the working piston upon the cutting through of a workpiece during an operating stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignees: Mannesmann Rexroth AG, Thyssen Industrie AG
    Inventors: Georg Rausch, Heinrich Wilkens, Klaus Biermann, Georg Zoller
  • Patent number: 5829335
    Abstract: A control for a hydraulic drive or actuator is provided, wherein the actuator has pressurized operating fluid applied thereto, and wherein the operating fluid is directed through an electrically controlled valve for establishing the amount of operating fluid to be fed to the actuator. An electrical signal for controlling the valve is provided by a computing device. In the computing device, a predetermined desired value for the position (or travel), force, or pressure of the actuator or drive is continuously calculated based, at any given time, at least on one measured or simulated state variable indicative of a condition of the drive or actuator at the time of calculation. The calculated desired value determines the amplitude of the electrical signal directed to an electrical actuating device of the valve. The computing speed of the computing device for determining the respective desired value is faster than the actuating velocity or speed of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Ewald, Andreas Grimm
  • Patent number: 5816348
    Abstract: Hydraulic device for directional control of a vehicle using a single lever, including: a hydraulic manipulator (1) with four outlets, forward-reverse and right-left; a selection device (4) with four selectors (5) in a bridge, which is connected to the manipulator and of which the outputs are connected to four directional drive controls, reverse-left, forward-left and reverse-right and forward-right for the running components of the vehicle; two slide valves (7) with two positions, respectively one with direct connections and one with crossed connections, which are inserted into the feed lines of the directional drive controls; first controls acting on a first end (8) of the slide valves being connected to the FORWARD or REVERSE outputs of the manipulator; and second controls acting on a second end (9) of the slide valves being connected to the RIGHT and LEFT outputs of the manipulator; by virtue of which the control of the vehicle remains fully ergonomic, including for a rotation of the vehicle on itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth S.A.
    Inventor: Ronald L. Barnes
  • Patent number: 5806312
    Abstract: A multiple hydraulic distributor device, having an antisaturation function wherein flow of hydraulic fluid is divided independently of load, which includes a hydraulic distributor device having a number of distributor devices assigned to controlling respective loads, which are stacked up face to face against each other as a stack and individually arranged in such a way that the stack has a common line passing through the stack for supplying working fluid under pressure originating from a source including a pump associated with a flow/pressure control device, a common return line for returning working fluid to a tank, and a common transmission line for transmitting control fluid at a pressure of highest load towards the control device for controlling the pump; a shut-off device arranged in the transmission line between a first group of distributors for which the transmission line is connected to the flow/pressure control device for controlling the source, and at least a second group of distributors for which t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth S.A.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kauss, Emmanuel Remi Jean-Marie Richer
  • Patent number: 5802847
    Abstract: A hydraulic system for a mobile machine, in particular a wheel loader, has a longitudinal oscillation damping function. The hydraulic system has at least one hydraulic cylinder (13) with which a tool can be operated and whose inner space is divided by a piston (15) into two pressure chambers (17, 18); a stop valve (12) which connects one of the two pressure chambers (17, 18) to a hydraulic reservoir (42) which can be filled via a filling pipe; and a distributing or directional control valve (11) with a spool or slide valve (40) for the separate pressurization of the two pressure chambers (17, 18) in the hydraulic cylinder (13) and/or for connecting them to a tank (29). To facilitate low-cost and space-saving construction of a system of this type, the stop valve is incorporated in the distributing valve (11) in such a way that the hydraulic reservoir (42) and the first pressure chamber (17) of the hydraulic cylinder (13) can be connected to each other via the spool valve (40) of the distributing valve (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Mannesmann Rexroth AG
    Inventor: Edwin Harnischfeger