Patents Examined by F. Daniel Lopez
  • Patent number: 11078930
    Abstract: A hydromechanical linear converter has a cylinder, a piston unit and a seat valve unit. The cylinder and a piston of the piston unit delimit a hydraulic working chamber, into which a working connection and a further fluid connection open, and has a supply connection 10. The valve unit switches between a first position connecting the supply connection to the fluid connection and a second position blocking the fluid connection from the supply connection. The linear converter includes a valve housing with a valve seat 16, a valve body with a valve head cooperating with the seat, a spring unit preloading the valve body into a position corresponding to the first position and an electromagnetic actuator 14 acting on the valve body 12 by purely mechanical action, to move the valve body against the force of the spring unit into a position corresponding to the second switching position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HAWE Altenstadt Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Rauwolf, Josef Ritzl, Andreas Socher
  • Patent number: 11079014
    Abstract: A traveling hydraulic stepless transmission (“HST”), ensures stopping of a vehicle on a slope under high load conditions, maintains stopping the vehicle on flat ground under low load conditions, and enables smooth starting from a stop. The HST includes a neutral check valve (“NCV”) and an internal damping system (“IDS”). The NCV includes a first orifice that opens a first oil passage to a transaxle case when a pressure in the first oil passage is equal to or less than a predetermined pressure, and that connects the second oil passage to the transaxle case when a pressure in a second oil passage is equal to or less than the predetermined pressure. The IDS includes second orifices that connect a high pressure side of the oil passages to the transaxle case when a discharge rate of the hydraulic pump is equal to or less than a predetermined discharge rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Murashima, Michio Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 11078932
    Abstract: A hydraulic machine is provided. A first flow control valve directs fluid from a first fluid supply to a first actuator when the first flow control valve is in a first position. A conflux control valve directs fluid from the first fluid supply to a second flow control valve when the conflux control valve is in a conflux position. The second flow control valve directs fluid from a second fluid supply and the first fluid supply to a second actuator when second flow control valve is in a second position. A bypass path allows the first fluid supply to communicate with the conflux control valve by passing around the first flow control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB
    Inventors: Youngjin Son, Seonggeun Yun, Manseuk Jeon
  • Patent number: 11079013
    Abstract: A hydraulic apparatus for stretching conductors for power lines comprising: a variable displacement hydraulic pump (10) that supplies by means of a hydraulic fluid a hydraulic motor (11) with a closed circuit connection; a displacement regulation system (15) of said hydraulic pump (10); a regulation system (20) of said hydraulic apparatus; characterised in that said regulation system (20) comprises: an inlet (21) that receives said hydraulic fluid that supplies said hydraulic motor (11); a first outlet (22) that supplies said displacement regulation system (15); a second discharge outlet (23); a flow limiter (30) connected to said inlet (21); a regulatable valve (31) connected to said flow limiter (30); a tap (36) connected between the outlet of said regulatable valve (31) and said first outlet (22); a measurement instrument (33) connected to the outlet of said regulatable valve (31), to measure the regulation pressure of said regulation system (20); a safety valve (34) connected to the outlet of said regulat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: TESMEC S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alberto Oscar, Roberto Pedrocchi
  • Patent number: 11067103
    Abstract: A hydraulic system for a working machine, includes a hydraulic device to change a flow rate of an operation fluid. The hydraulic device includes a first hydraulic receiver to which the operation fluid is applied, a second hydraulic receiver to which the operation fluid is applied, and a movable portion to be moved by the operation fluid applied to any one of the first hydraulic receiver and the second hydraulic portion. A hydraulic system further includes a differential pressure regulator to supply the operation fluid to the first hydraulic receiver and the second hydraulic receiver, the differential pressure regulator being configured to regulate a differential pressure between a first pressure that is a pressure of the operation fluid applied to the first hydraulic receiver and a second pressure that is a pressure of the operation fluid applied to the second hydraulic receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Fukuda, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Ryosuke Kinugawa, Jun Tomita, Nozomu Minagawa
  • Patent number: 11067100
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supplying ports to a machine section (26) of a hydraulic machine arrangement (40), the device (10) comprising a low-pressure inlet port (12), a leakage inlet (16), a low-pressure chamber (18) having a low-pressure opening (22) for establishing fluid communication with the machine section (26), a high-pressure outlet port (14), and a high-pressure chamber (20) that is in fluid communication with the high-pressure outlet port (14), the high-pressure chamber (20) having a high-pressure opening (24) for establishing fluid communication with the machine section (26), wherein the low-pressure inlet port (12) is in fluid communication with the low-pressure chamber (18), wherein a leakage path (36) extends from the high-pressure chamber (20) through the machine section (26) to the leakage inlet (16), characterized in that the device (10) further comprises a control valve member (28) connecting the leakage inlet (16) to the low-pressure chamber (18), wherein the control valve memb
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DANFOSS A/S
    Inventors: Georg Enevoldsen, Poul Erik Hansen, Frank Holm Iversen
  • Patent number: 11067067
    Abstract: A hydraulic device includes a shaft mounted in a housing rotatable about a first axis of rotation. The shaft has a flange extending perpendicularly to the first axis. A plurality of pistons is fixed to the flange. A plurality of cylindrical sleeves cooperates with the pistons to form respective compression chambers of variable volume. The cylindrical sleeves are rotatable about a second axis of rotation which intersects the first axis of rotation by an acute angle such that upon rotating the shaft the volumes of the compression chambers change. Each piston has a piston head including a circumferential wall of which the outer side is ball-shaped and the inner side surrounds a cavity. Each of the pistons is fixed to the flange by a piston pin having a piston pin head including a circumferential outer side facing the inner side of the circumferential wall of the piston head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: INNAS BV
    Inventor: Peter Augustinus Johannes Achten
  • Patent number: 11067099
    Abstract: A method for the combined pump water pressure-compressed air energy storage at a constant turbine water pressure, the energy to be stored is used to pump a liquid medium into a pressure vessel such that a rising level of medium compresses the gas contained in the pressure vessel through a connecting conduit and presses said gas into a compressed gas tank, the conduit being shut using a check valve such that the energy is stored in the compressed gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: EMIL BÄCHLI ENERGIETECHNIK AG
    Inventor: Emil Bächli
  • Patent number: 11066932
    Abstract: An actuating cylinder for an adjustment apparatus of a pivot angle of a hydrostatic axial piston machine has a hydraulic stop which connects an actuating pressure chamber of the actuating cylinder to an interior of the housing of the axial piston machine if the actuating piston is maximally extended. To this end, a channel is provided on the actuating piston side, while a control edge is provided on the housing side. The control edge is formed at the interface of a stop bore with the actuating cylinder bore. The stop bore may also be a leakage bore of the axial piston machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Felix Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11053795
    Abstract: A compressor having a front housing in which a crank chamber is formed. A cylinder block is coupled to an opposite surface facing the front housing and includes reciprocating pistons in a plurality of cylinder bores. A rear housing is coupled to an opposite surface facing the cylinder block, the rear housing includes a suction chamber and a discharge chamber formed therein. A rotating shaft 400 is inserted via centers of the front housing and the cylinder block, the shaft inserted into a swash plate. A diameter maintenance part is configured to constantly maintain a diameter based on an axis direction of the piston 220. A sensor part is configured to sense a speed and a stroke of the piston in accordance with a change in position of a position determination part positioned on one side of the diameter maintenance part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH, HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jung Myung Kwak, Yong Hee Kim, Daniel Domke, Simon Schemer, Peter Kurt Zawadzky
  • Patent number: 11054027
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid flow arrangement (1, 15) with an adjustable fluid pumping device (2) and a fluid working machine (12). The fluid working machine (12) is connected to the fluid pumping device (2) and a re-circulating loop is provided for the fluid working machine (12). The re-circulating loop is fluidly connecting a first fluid port (A) and a second fluid port (B) of the fluid working machine (12), where the first (A) and the second fluid port (B) are at times at a different pressure level. The re-circulating loop comprises a an adjustable fluid throttling device (21, 22), and a controllable fluid conduit device (23, 24), so that a defined decelerating force can be generated for the fluid working machine (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Danfoss Power Solutions G.m.b.H & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Florian Lindinger, Sven Fink
  • Patent number: 11047405
    Abstract: A control system for construction machinery, includes a hydraulic pump, at least one control valve installed in a center bypass line connected to the hydraulic pump and configured to control a flow direction of a working oil discharged from the hydraulic pump to selectively supply the working oil to an actuator, a bypass control valve installed downstream from the control valve in the center bypass line to variably control an amount of the working oil draining to a drain tank through the center bypass line, and a controller configured to control operations of the hydraulic pump and the bypass control valve according to a manipulation signal of an operator and to open the bypass control valve according to pump peak occurrence to reduce a pump peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: DOOSAN INFRACORE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo-Yong Jung, Yong-Lak Cho, Chang-Mook Kim
  • Patent number: 11047402
    Abstract: Electrically controllable hydraulic system for a vehicle transmission and method for controlling the same An electrically controllable hydraulic system (1) for a vehicle transmission comprises a pressure pump system (4a, 4b) and a subsystem (1A) comprising a transmission element (2) and an electrically controlled hydraulic pressure controlling module (1B) including a hydraulic valve element (15) for controlling a hydraulic pressure for actuating the transmission element (2) and an electromagnetically controllable operating element (21) for operating the hydraulic valve element (15). The subsystem (1A) and the pressure controlling module (1B) have a first and a second cut-off frequency (f1, f2) with f2>f1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Punch Powertrain N.V.
    Inventors: Rekha Kandiyil Raveendran, Timotheus Franciscus Adrianus Van Els
  • Patent number: 11041512
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic linear actuator module comprising a stator having a cylindrical bore therethrough, a linear electric machine translator movable axially within the stator bore, a positive displacement chamber adjacent each end of the translator for holding, in use, an incompressible fluid, first and second fluid pathways, one to each chamber, for the flow of an incompressible fluid, wherein movement of the translator along the stator bore alters the volumes of the chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Libertine FPE Limited
    Inventors: Samuel Edward Cockerill, Edward Haynes
  • Patent number: 11035387
    Abstract: Fluid equipment includes a container configured for having first and second fluids therein, a first fluid outlet/inlet path provided for outflow and inflow of the first fluid, a second fluid outlet/inlet path for outflow and inflow of the second fluid, and a member configured for moving in the container in response to pressure of the first fluid, the fluid equipment transmitting energy from the first to the second fluid. A first bellows is configured such that one end is closed in a sealed state by the moving member, the other end is fixed to an inner surface part of the container in a sealed state, and the inside of the first bellows communicates with the first fluid outlet/outlet path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventor: Tatsuhiro Arikawa
  • Patent number: 11027775
    Abstract: The operability can be improved when the rotational speed of the engine is low and the working device actuator and the steering actuator are operated in a combined manner, while the configuration of prioritizing the operation of the steering actuator is maintained. A control device (70) included in a wheel loader (1) determines whether a working device (4) is in load lifting operation or not based on the pressure that is between a working device directional switching valve (44) and an orifice (45) and is detected by a pressure sensor (71), and reduces the opening area of a steering control valve (37) when determining that the rotational speed of an engine (14) detected by a rotational speed sensor (72) is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold (Ns) and a working device is in the load lifting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tanaka, Hiroyasu Kodera
  • Patent number: 11008734
    Abstract: To provide a hydraulic control circuit for a construction machine capable of shortening a time duration from the start of an engine until the pressure of a pump oil passage reaches a required pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventor: Hideki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10995776
    Abstract: An actuator includes a piston and a housing. The piston includes a piston shaft that is configured to reciprocate within a chamber of the housing. The actuator includes a gland electrically coupled to the housing. The gland forms at least a portion of a first end of the chamber. The actuator also includes a first conductor positioned in the chamber. The first conductor is coupled to the gland and to a first side of the piston to electrically couple the piston to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Kevin S. Callahan, Christopher E. Plass, Matthew A. Moser
  • Patent number: 10995474
    Abstract: Flow control over a hydraulic pump and flow dividing control of a plurality of directional control valves associated with actuators can stably be exercised even in a case in which differential pressures across the directional control valves are quite low, an abrupt change in a flow rate of the hydraulic fluid supplied to each actuator is prevented and excellent combined operability is realized even in an abrupt change in a demanded flow rate at a time of transition from a combined operation to a sole operation, and realizing excellent combined operability, and a meter-in loss in each directional control valve is reduced to realize high energy efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kiwamu Takahashi, Taihei Maehara, Takeshi Ishii
  • Patent number: 10989290
    Abstract: A torque fluctuation inhibiting device is disclosed. The torque fluctuation inhibiting device includes an input member, a pair of inertia rings and an inertia block. The input member, to which a torque is inputted, is disposed to be rotatable. The pair of inertia rings is disposed axially on the both sides of the input member. The pair of inertia rings is disposed to be rotatable relative to the input member. The pair of inertia rings is unitarily rotated with each other. The inertia block is disposed between the pair of inertia rings. The inertia block is attached to the pair of inertia rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: EXEDY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Tomita, Yusuke Okamachi