Patents Assigned to MOOG GmbH
  • Patent number: 11932361
    Abstract: The hydraulic system according to the invention is a hydraulic system for controlling a stabilizer drive, in particular for controlling an angle of attack and/or a pivoting out and in of a stabilizer wing, preferably for ships. The hydraulic system according to the invention has a rotary vane motor that changes the angle of attack of the stabilizer wing and/or a hydraulic cylinder for pivoting the stabilizer wing out and in, along with a first hydraulic circuit. The first hydraulic circuit furthermore comprises a low-pressure circuit and a high-pressure circuit, a device for providing an admission pressure of the low-pressure circuit, and two anti-cavitation valves which separate the first low-pressure circuit from the first high-pressure circuit. The hydraulic system according to the invention is furthermore characterized in that a first hydraulic pump driven by an electric motor and having two connections is integrated in the high-pressure circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Handle
  • Patent number: 11773882
    Abstract: The hydraulic system according to the invention comprises a hydraulic circuit with a low-pressure region and a high-pressure region; a volume- and/or speed-variable hydraulic machine, which is driven by a first electric motor and has an inlet and an outlet and provides a volume flow of a hydraulic fluid in the high-pressure region of the hydraulic circuit. The hydraulic system according to the invention further comprises at least one movable shaft, which is arranged in the high-pressure region of the hydraulic circuit; at least one valve, which separates the high-pressure region from the low-pressure region; and at least one hydraulic fluid container, which is hydraulically connected to the low-pressure region of the hydraulic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Handle, Achim Helbig
  • Patent number: 11719323
    Abstract: The invention relates to a worm drive comprising a worm shaft and a first receiving unit. The worm shaft is rotatably mounted in the first receiving unit. Furthermore, the worm drive comprises a worm wheel and a second receiving unit. The worm wheel is rotatably mounted in the second receiving unit. The first receiving unit is arranged on the second receiving unit and the rotatably mounted worm shaft is in contact with the worm wheel of the second receiving unit in order to transmit a torque. Furthermore, the worm drive comprises guide pins for detachably connecting the first receiving unit to the second receiving unit. More particularly, the first receiving unit receives at least part of the guide pins and the second receiving unit is connected to one of the guide pins, preferably to a first end of the guide pin. A spring element is arranged on a second end of the guide pin between the first receiving unit and a fastening means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Eitelbuss
  • Patent number: 11661937
    Abstract: A method for determining a current wear (w) of a hydrostatic pump, particularly of a radial piston pump, with a variable-speed drive, where the pump is connected to a fluid passage, in which a fluid is pumped by the pump to create a current actual volume flow in the fluid passage. A current actual volume flow (Qact) is determined, by measuring the volume flow in the fluid passage at a predetermined drive-vector, a computed volume flow (Qcomp) is determined, by a first computational method, at the predetermined drive-vector, and the current wear (w) of the pump is determined, by a second computational method, which relates the current actual volume flow (Qact) to the computed volume flow (Qcomp).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Becher
  • Patent number: 11618232
    Abstract: An electro-hydrostatic drive for realizing a rapid movement during a rapid movement phase, a force-building movement during a force-building movement phase. The apparatus comprises a hydro-machine with variable volume and/or rotational speed, driven by an electric motor, for providing a volume-stream of a hydraulic fluid, a first cylinder with a piston chamber, an rod chamber, and a plunger rod, a reservoir, a pressure source, a relief valve, a check valve, a fluid connection between the piston chamber and the hydro-machine, a fluid connection between the rod chamber and the hydro-machine, a fluid connection between the piston chamber and the reservoir, a fluid connection between the rod-chamber-side port of the hydro-machine and the reservoir, a fluid connection, through the relief valve, between the reservoir and the pressure source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Becher, Werner Haendle, Achim Helbig, Christoph Boes
  • Patent number: 11603867
    Abstract: An electrohydrostatic actuator system comprising: a volume- and/or speed-variable hydraulic machine which is driven by an electric motor, for providing a volumetric flow of a hydraulic fluid; a differential cylinder with a piston side and a ring side; and at least one pretensioning source. The actuator system has a closed hydraulic circuit, wherein, during operation, the hydraulic fluid in the hydraulic circuit is pressurized by means of the hydraulic machine and/or the pretensioning source. Furthermore, according to the invention, the differential cylinder provides a power motion operating mode and a rapid motion operating mode. In order to balance a volume of the hydraulic fluid in the closed hydraulic circuit, according to the invention an expansion reservoir is connected to the piston side of the differential cylinder via a valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Sascha Dany, Reiner Kohlhaas, Achim Helbig, Werner Handle
  • Patent number: 11577481
    Abstract: An electro-hydrostatic drive for realizing a rapid movement and a force-building movement, comprising a hydro-machine with variable volume and/or rotational speed, driven by an electric motor, for providing a volume-flow of a hydraulic fluid, a first cylinder with a housing, a piston, a cylinder rod, and a first and a second cylinder chamber, a second cylinder with a piston, a cylinder rod, and a first and a second cylinder chamber, a moveable carrier plate, a pillar, and a clamping apparatus to clamp and/or unclamp the first cylinder to the pillar, where the hydraulic drive has a closed hydraulic circuit, which has, when run, a positive pressure above atmospheric pressure and which, by utilizing the hydro-machine, can pressurize either the first or the second cylinder chamber of the first cylinder and/or the first or the second cylinder chamber of the second cylinder. The moveable carrier plate is connected both to the first cylinder and to the second cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Haendle, Achim Helbig, Christoph Boes, Michael Sieber
  • Patent number: 11559831
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an extrusion press (10, 20, 30) with a press cylinder (111), the press cylinder (111) being driven with an electro-hydrostatic control system (104) for a power transmission and being connected to a separate drive (120, 400) for rapid traverse, with a container (115), wherein the container (115) is connected to a hydraulic cylinder (117) for a power transmission and to a further separate drive (119, 300) for rapid traverse, with a hydraulic cylinder (101) with a locking device (103) for driving a shearing tool (102), wherein the hydraulic cylinder (101) is connected to the electro-hydrostatic control system (104), and wherein the press cylinder (111) in the power transmission and the hydraulic cylinder (101) for driving a shearing tool (102) are controlled alternately via the common electro-hydrostatic control system (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Kirch
  • Patent number: 11498302
    Abstract: An electro-hydrostatic actuator system for a press drive, having an upper piston with a press surface, which acts from a first direction, wherein the press surface of the upper piston is actuated by means of a piston rod in a hydraulic cylinder of the upper piston and traverses a first distance in a press run, and a first electro-hydrostatic actuator for driving the upper piston, comprising a first pump and a first motor generators which is controlled by a first controller. The system furthermore comprises at least one auxiliary piston with a press surface, which acts from a second direction opposite the first direction, wherein the press surface of the auxiliary piston is actuated by means of a piston rod in a hydraulic cylinder of the auxiliary piston and traverses a second distance in the press run, and a second electro-hydrostatic actuator for driving the at least one auxiliary piston, comprising a second pump and a second motor generator which is controlled by a second controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Kirch
  • Patent number: 11261884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-hydrostatic system (1) with a hydraulic machine (11) which is driven by an electric motor (10) and has a variable volume and/or rotational speed for providing a volumetric flow rate of a hydraulic fluid, a differential cylinder (20) with a piston surface and with an annular surface, and at least one equalization container (30, 37), wherein the drive system (1) has a closed hydraulic circuit and during operation has an overpressure relative to the environment by means of the hydraulic machine (11) and/or a pretensioning source (15, 37), and the drive system (1) provides a movement of the cylinder in a first direction by means of a volumetric flow rate of the hydraulic machine (11) and a volumetric flow rate from the equalization container (30, 37), and provides a movement in a second direction by means of a volumetric flow rate of the hydraulic machine (11) and a volumetric flow rate into the equalization container (30, 37), and a power operating mode and a speed ope
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Händle, Achim Helbig, Tino Kentschke, Reiner Kohlhas, Klaus Kirch
  • Patent number: 11053957
    Abstract: An electro-hydrostatic actuating drive has a variable-volume and/or variable-speed hydraulic machine, which is driven by an electric motor, for the provision of a volumetric flow of a hydraulic fluid. Furthermore, the actuating drive comprises a cylinder with a piston, a piston rod and a first piston chamber, a valve with a first position and a second position, which valve can be moved by a first hydraulic actuator into the first position and by a second hydraulic actuator into the second position, wherein the second position controls a greater volumetric flow of the hydraulic fluid than the first position, a sink, a main line which connects a first piston chamber of the cylinder to the sink and in which the hydraulic machine is arranged, an auxiliary line which connects the first piston chamber to the sink and in which the valve is arranged, a first control line to the first hydraulic actuator, and a second control line to the second hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Helbig, Sascha Dany, Udo Koelbl, Werner Haendle
  • Patent number: 10626889
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic drive (1) comprising a working cylinder (2) and a travel cylinder (3) which is mechanically connected to the working cylinder (2). The working cylinder (2) and the travel cylinder (3) each comprise an upper and a lower cylinder chamber (21, 22, 31, 32), and all four cylinder chambers (21, 22, 31, 32) of the working and travel cylinder (2, 3) are connected to one another in a suitable manner in a closed pressure circuit (4) which is filled and prestressed with a hydraulic fluid (F). A rotational speed-variable hydraulic machine (5) with a first and second pressure connection (51, 52) is arranged in the pressure circuit (4) in order to conduct the hydraulic fluid (F) between the individual cylinder chambers (21, 22, 31, 32) of the working and travel cylinder (2, 3) during the operation (B) of the hydraulic drive (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Händle, Achim Helbig, Tino Kentschke
  • Patent number: 10519989
    Abstract: A safe hydraulic drive system and process, comprising at least one first cylinder chamber and a second, separate cylinder chamber which are connected to one another via a connecting line to form a fluid-filled hydraulic circuit, and a hydraulic drive for conveying the fluid from one cylinder chamber, via the connecting line, into the other cylinder chamber in which the connecting line is arranged. The connecting line has at least one parallel system, between the hydraulic drive and one of the two cylinder chambers, including at least one first sub-connection with at least one first stop valve and a second sub-connection with a baffle arranged therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MOOG GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Handle, Reiner Kohlhaas, Tim Reidl
  • Patent number: 10520382
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a hydraulic pressure of a hydraulic component, comprising a pressure sensor module and a mounting plate, that is either an outer contour of the hydraulic component or is connectable with the hydraulic component in a substance-to-substance, form-locking and/or force-locking manner, wherein the pressure sensor module comprises a housing, at least one pressure sensor for determining the pressure of a fluid, at least one fluid connector for hydraulic connection of the hydraulic component, at least one electrical connector comprising a conductive mating surface; the mounting plate has a basic area and at least one electrical connecting pin, whereby the connecting pin spring loaded and is essentially perpendicular to the basic area of the mounting plate, the first end of the connecting pin is oriented towards the basic area, the second end of the connecting pin is oriented away from the basic area, and the second end of the connecting pin is pressed, by means of an elastic element, away f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MOOG GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Roehlig
  • Patent number: 9890777
    Abstract: A method for the delay-minimized detection of an auxiliary control variable for a system comprising a control system and a controller, whereby an output variable is detected at the end of the control system, whereby a disturbance variable is active in the control system, characterized in that a state variable is detected in the control system at a place before the point of action of the disturbance variable, whereby the auxiliary control variable is calculated from the state variable that has been weighted with a constant kx and from an estimation error, whereby the estimation error is calculated from a comparison between the detected output variable and the integrated auxiliary control variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Händle, Eberhard Veil, Michael Bürker
  • Patent number: 9850916
    Abstract: A fail-safe actuation system comprising an actuator having first and second chambers, a working circuit with a motor/pump device configured to actuate the actuator in an operative state, and a safety circuit configured to move the actuator into the safety position in a failure state, the safety circuit having a tank that holds pressurized fluid and that, in the failure state, is automatically connected to the first chamber via a switching valve, and having a drain valve that, in the failure state, is moved into a through-flow position in order to drain fluid out of the second chamber, the safety circuit configured such that, in the operative state, an inflow into the actuator—in a manner that is decoupled from the tank—is established by the working circuit, and, in the failure state, an inflow from the tank into the first chamber—in a manner that is completely decoupled from the working circuit—is created by the safety circuit, whereby a short-circuit fluid connection is provided between the first and second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Helbig, Christoph Boes, Werner Handle
  • Patent number: 9702342
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wind turbine (1) with a pitch drive (3) for rotor blade adjustment, whereby the drive regulation (31) of the pitch drive (3) responds to disturbance torques (SM) during operation of the wind turbine (1) so as to have an equalizing effect, and the invention also relates to a corresponding method for the drive regulation (31). For this purpose, the wind turbine (1) comprises at least one load sensor (4) that is arranged in the vicinity of the pitch drive (3) in order to determine the mechanical load being exerted on the drive mechanism (A) due to a disturbance torque (SM), and said load sensor is also provided in order to emit a sensor signal (SS) corresponding to the mechanical load, and the drive regulation (31) comprises a feedback means (311) for the feedback (R) of an evaluated torque signal (BDS) on the basis of the sensor signal (SS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignees: Moog Unna GmbH, Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Stehlin, Mirko Breitholz, Tobias Rösmann
  • Publication number: 20170138335
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrostatic radial piston motor, in particular a hydrostatic radial piston motor for actuating a differential cylinder. According to the invention, the hydrostatic motor in radial piston configuration comprises a control stud in a housing, the hydrostatic motor having three hydraulic working connections. The first working connection can be connected to the piston-end of a differential cylinder, while the second working connection can be connected to the rod-end of the differential cylinder. Finally, the third working connection can be connected to a tank. Owing to this arrangement, the differential cylinder can be directly operated with the aid of a single hydrostatic motor, with it being possible to forgo interposing proportional or control valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Becher, Tino Kentschke, Achim Helbig
  • Patent number: 9239064
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fail-safe fluidic actuation system (1) having a safety position, comprising a control element (2) having at least one first and one second chamber (3, 4); having a working circuit (5) with a motor/pump device (6), wherein the control element can be actuated by means of the working circuit at least in the operational state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Helbig, Christoph Boes, Werner Handle
  • Publication number: 20140322036
    Abstract: A method for the delay-minimized detection of an auxiliary control variable for a system comprising a control system and a controller, whereby an output variable is detected at the end of the control system, whereby a disturbance variable is active in the control system, characterized in that a state variable is detected in the control system at a place before the point of action of the disturbance variable, whereby the auxiliary control variable is calculated from the state variable that has been weighted with a constant kx and from an estimation error, whereby the estimation error is calculated from a comparison between the detected output variable and the integrated auxiliary control variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Moog GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Händle, Eberhard Veil, Michael Bürker