Abstract: An object comprising a body part having an electrically insulating outer surface part, and a first layer arranged on the outer surface part. The first layer is formed by one or more electrically conducting materials and defines one or more conducting paths between a first area of the outer surface part and a second area of the outer surface part. Thereby electrical signals may be transferred between the first and second area parts. The layer further defines a sensing device, which is thereby embedded into the object. The object is provided with a threaded portion defining an outer thread. Thereby the object may easily be fitted into an opening having a mating inner thread. The object may be in the form of an ordinary bolt with a sensing device embedded in a surface part thereof.

Abstract: An electronic traction control system for a vehicle having multiple hydraulic driven wheels includes a plurality of digital displacement pumps, a plurality of drive systems having counterbalance valves and motors used to drive wheels, and electronic flow control valves used in association with each drive assembly. Additionally the system has a steering mechanism that is electrically connected to a digital sensor and a proportional sensor that sends signals to a system controller that operates the functioning of the digital displacement hydraulic pumps.

Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic steering (1) with a steering unit (2) with feedback behaviour, a steering motor (8) connected to the steering unit (2) via working pipes (L, R), a steering member (6) and a feedback suppression device (9), which is located in at least one working pipe (L, R). It is endeavoured to change the feedback behaviour of such a steering in a simple manner. For this purpose, the feedback suppression device (9) has a valve arrangement (10) with hydraulic control inlet (C).

Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic steering (1) with a steering valve (7) located between a supply connection arrangement (P, T) and a steering motor (2). It is endeavoured to improve the safety of such a steering. For this purpose, the steering valve (7) has a hydraulic drive (9, 10) with a pilot valve arrangement (11) supplied by a pressure control valve (5), a stop valve (16) being located between the pressure control valve (5) and the pilot valve arrangement (11).

Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic steering (1) with a steering motor (8), a steering unit (2) with feedback behaviour, a steering member activating the steering unit (2) and a shock valve arrangement (50) between the steering motor (8) and the steering unit (2). It is endeavoured to enable changes of the feedback behaviour in a simple manner. For this purpose it is ensured that a switchable feedback suppression device (9) is located at the side of the shock valve arrangement (50) facing away from the steering motor (8).

Abstract: A hydraulic circuit arrangement with a fixed displacement pump driven by an electric motor, a lifting cylinder, a load-holding valve arranged in the line between pump and lifting cylinder, a priority valve, which is acted upon by the pump, being arranged between pump and load-holding valve and distributing the volumetric flow flowing from the pump to the lifting cylinder, on the one hand, and to at least one further consumer of a load-sensing system, on the other hand. In the first of its two extreme positions, the priority valve connects both the lifting cylinder and the at least one further consumer in each case to the pump and, in the second of its two extreme positions, only connects the at least one further consumer to the pump while the lifting cylinder is completely cut off.

Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic valve arrangement (1) with a working connection arrangement having a first working connection (A) and a second working connection (B), both working connections (A, B) being connectable with a hydraulic consumer (2), a supply connection arrangement having a pressure connection (P) and a tank connection (T), a first valve arrangement with a first valve (12), closing the pressure connection (P) or connecting it in a controlled manner with the first working connection (A) or the second working connection (B), a second valve arrangement with a second valve (16), closing the tank connection (T) or connecting it in a controlled manner with the first working connection (A) or the second working connection (B), and a control arrangement controlling the first valve arrangement and the second valve arrangement. In such a valve arrangement, it is endeavoured to achieve improved operation behaviour.

Abstract: The invention relates to an axial piston machine having an bent axis segment which is adjustable by means of an actuating piston, and a variable unit for the electrically proportional adjustment of the displacement. The variable unit has a control piston for controlling the oil pressure which displaces the actuating piston, an electrically controllable proportional solenoid which acts on the control piston, a feedback spring on the control piston for retracting the instantaneous Bent axis valve segment and a adjustment mechanism for setting the start current. To set the start current, the adjustment mechanism has a setting spring which acts on the armature of the proportional solenoid with an adjustable force.

Abstract: A tilt sensor and a method for the use of the tilt sensor to calculate the degree of tilt, whereby the tilt sensor has at least three accelerometers mounted to a base, the accelerometers are positioned in a common plane, and wherein each is preferably at an equally spaced angle from one another.

Abstract: A hydraulic machine has a gear wheel (2) with outwardly extending teeth and a gear ring (4) with inwardly extending teeth formed by rollers each of which is supported in a pocket (8) in the gear ring, and pressurized spaces are formed between the gear wheel and the inwardly extending teeth. To keep the wear of the machine small each pocket (8) has at least two different radii (R1, R2, Rn) whereby a radius (R2, Rn) at a smaller displacement from the edge (12) of the pocket is larger than a radius (R1) at a larger displacement from the same edge (12) of the pocket (8).

Abstract: The invention relates to an axial piston engine having a swash plate, or a bent axis with a valve segment, which can be adjusted by means of a servo piston, and having an adjustment unit for electrically proportionally adjusting the supply volume. The adjustment unit has a regulating piston for controlling the oil pressure which moves the servo piston, electrically actuable proportional magnets which act on the regulating piston, and a feedback device for feeding the instantaneous swash plate position or bent axis valve segment position back to the regulating piston. The feedback device has a tappet which is mechanically coupled to the swash plate or to the bent axis valve segment, in each case one leaf spring being arranged in the longitudinal direction at both sides of said tappet, said leaf springs enclosing a feedback lever which is mounted in the regulating piston.

Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit for enabling or disabling a braking system of a hydraulic propel drive, having a device for checking operating parameters which are relevant to a neutral setting and having a spring device, in particular a load spring, which acts counter to the control piston of an electrohydraulic solenoid valve which is designed to enable the braking system by means of electrical operation. A device for generating a force, which is dependent on the neutral position, of the spring device is provided, wherein when a neutral setting is not present, the force action of the spring arrangement prevents the electrohydraulic solenoid valve from enabling the braking system, by acting counter to the electrical operation of the magnet of said solenoid valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit for enabling or disabling hydraulic actuating devices, in particular for enabling the braking system of a hydraulic propel drive, having a device for checking the pressure level in working lines or control lines of hydraulic circuits, a maximum or minimum pressure level being checked in two or more working lines or control lines. An ‘OR’ logic circuit is provided for checking the pressures. In said ‘OR’ logic circuit, two or more pistons are arranged in series in a common bore. In each case one of the pressures to be checked is introduced into one of the spaces between the pistons and the space between one of the pistons and the base of the bore.

Abstract: The invention provides a fluid controller, e.g. for a hydrostatic power steering. The controller comprises a cylindrical valve member cooperating with a housing to define at least one fluid path from a pressure source to a steering cylinder. The valve member is rotatable in the housing and comprises a sleeve and a spool, wherein the spool is rotatable within the sleeve. The fluid flow is metered by a flow meter, and the valve member comprises a plurality of meter ports communicating the fluid between the valve member and the flow meter. To obtain less friction between the sleeve and the housing and between the sleeve and the spool, the meter ports are grouped in two groups in which groups the ports are in mutually fluid communication.

Abstract: The invention concerns a valve arrangement for controlling a hydraulic drive, the supply to and the outflow from the hydraulic drive being separately controllable. It is endeavoured to realise separate controls of the speed and the hydraulic pressure of the hydraulic drive. For this purpose, a pump pipe is connected with a first control valve, the first control valve is connected through a pipe with a first working connection and a second working connection of the hydraulic drive, and the first working connection is connected with a second control valve and the second working connection is connected with a third control valve, the second control valve and the third control valve opening into a tank (T).

Abstract: A valve arrangement in a hydraulic circuit comprises a longitudinal duct 3 and a transverse duct 2. A throttle slide 10 can be displaced in the direction of the longitudinal duct 3. Arranged in the throttle slide 10 is a valve piston 25, by means of which the flow through the hollow throttle slide 10 can be enabled or blocked. The flow of hydraulic fluid takes place through two groups of passage holes 33a, 35a, which are arranged in the throttle slide 10. The interaction of pressure and flow direction of the hydraulic fluid, and also the restoring force of a slide spring 20 and a piston spring 30, achieves a situation where hydraulic fluid can flow through the valve arrangement in both directions but that a throttling action occurs only when the hydraulic fluid flows from the transfer duct 2 to the longitudinal duct 3 under increased pressure.

Abstract: The invention concerns a valve arrangement (1) with at least two valve modules (2, 4, 5), each having a valve element, whose position can be changed by means of an actuator (13, 13a, 13b), and to which a position sensor (19, 19a, 19b) is allocated, a line arrangement (24) being connected with the valve modules (2, 4, 5), through which control signals can be transmitted to the valve modules (2, 4, 5). It is endeavoured to increase the safety of such valve modules. For this purpose, at each valve module (2 to 5) the actuator (13) is provided with a control device (22, 22a, 22b), which is connected with the position sensor (19, 19a, 19b) and evaluates control signals for the valve module (2 to 5) concerned, that at least the control device (22b) of a first valve module (5) additionally evaluates the control signals for another, second valve module (4), and that this control device (22b) receives signals from the position sensor (19a) of the second valve module (4).

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a hydromachine with a commutation device and with expanding and contracting pressure chambers passed by fluid and formed by displacement arrangements. With the method and the hydromachine, it is endeavoured to control a displacement in the hydromachine to keep pressure fluctuations small. For this purpose, the hydromachine has a group of devices, comprising a commutation device and at least two displacement devices, at least two of the devices being adjusted in relation to each other.

Abstract: An electro-hydraulic power unit with an improved hydraulic fluid flow through the unit. The unit accomplishes the improved fluid flow by having an inlet port in a housing that is fluidly connected to an electric motor that has a rotor with vanes cast thereon and at least one opening within the rotor. A hydraulic pump inlet is fluidly connected to the electric motor such that the vanes of the electric motor will supply hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic pump inlet.

Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic steering arrangement (1) with a supply connection arrangement having at least a high-pressure connection (P) and a low-pressure connection (T), a working connection arrangement having at least two working connections (L, R), a steering unit (7), which can be activated by a steering transducer (2), the steering unit having a first load-sensing connection (LS1), and a steering valve (8) having a second load-sensing connection (LS2), the steering unit (7) and the steering valve (8) being arranged in parallel with each other between the supply connection arrangement and the working connection arrangement. It is endeavoured to ensure a good steering behaviour.