Patents Examined by Kenneth Bomberg
  • Patent number: 11725675
    Abstract: A fluid actuated linear drive which includes a drive housing and a drive member which is movable relative to the drive housing. The drive force which is necessary for producing the drive movement is provided by a drive fluid which can be fed and discharged through housing channels of the drive housing. The housing channels each with a lateral coupling opening run out at a housing side surface of the drive housing. An L-shaped attachment coupling part which in the position of use is assembled on the drive housing has a coupling limb which is assigned to a housing rear surface and which is provided with two axial coupling openings. The axial coupling openings are in connection with lateral coupling openings via coupling channels. Hence there is the possibility of using the axial coupling openings for the feed and discharge of the drive fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Gückel, Simone Kopp, Ulrich Diener, Mattias-Manuel Speckle, Andreas Trauschweizer, Bernhard Winter
  • Patent number: 11725725
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a transmission are provided herein. In one example, a hydraulic system is provided that includes a boost pump, a relief valve in fluidic communication with the boost pump and a reservoir, and a plurality of control valves in fluidic communication with the boost pump, positioned downstream of the relief valve, and in fluidic communication with a plurality of hydraulic devices. The hydraulic system further includes a controller designed to actively adjust a position of the relief valve based on an aggregate hydraulic pressure demand of the plurality of hydraulic devices to alter a boost pressure of a hydraulic fluid supplied to the plurality of control valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: DANA ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Mario Gelmini, Lorenzo Dalla Palma
  • Patent number: 11719239
    Abstract: A pump unit for clutch actuation, having a high-pressure port for clutch actuation, a low-pressure port for a lubricant flow, a single drive motor and a dual pump, which is driven by the drive motor and has a high-pressure outlet, which is connected to the high-pressure port with a high-pressure line, and a low-pressure outlet, which is connected to the low-pressure port with a low-pressure line, wherein a prefilling line which leads from the low-pressure line to the high-pressure line is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FTE AUTOMOTIVE GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Sperber, Wilhelm Heubner, Patrick Gegner, Alexander Lehnert, Frank Sauerteig, Benjamin Wuechner
  • Patent number: 11708825
    Abstract: For rotary protection of an external force piston of a power brake pressure generator of a hydraulic vehicle power braking system, axially parallel rotary protection grooves are provided at a circumference of an external force cylinder bore in a hydraulic block of a hydraulic unit of the vehicle power braking system, and tabs of the external force piston protrude into the rotary protection grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Weh, Martin Hagspiel, Matthias Mayr, Stefan Kaserer
  • Patent number: 11686305
    Abstract: A hydraulic fracturing pump includes a power end with a plurality of torsion tubes extending between sides of a crankcase housing in which a crankshaft is rotatably mounted. The crankshaft is coupled by piston arms to crossheads disposed to reciprocate along crosshead axes that are perpendicular to the crankshaft. Disposed within the crankcase housing are a plurality of ribs generally perpendicular to the crankshaft and extending from the base of the crankshaft housing to an upper surface of the crankshaft housing. The torsion tubes are generally adjacent the upper surface of the crankcase housing and pass perpendicularly through each of the plurality of ribs and are attached to the ribs to provide rigidity to the power end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ST9 Gas and Oil, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Paul Buckley
  • Patent number: 11680386
    Abstract: A hydraulic system includes a hydraulic pump, a first hydraulic actuator, a second hydraulic actuator, a first control valve to control the first hydraulic actuator, a second control valve to control the second hydraulic actuator, a pressure increasing portion to increasing a pressure of the operation fluid, a first discharge fluid tube connected to any one of the first control valve and the second control valve and connected to the pressure increasing portion, a second discharge fluid tube connected to the first discharge fluid tube and configured to discharge the operation fluid, a float switching valve having an allowance position, a prevention position, and a float position, the allowance position blocking the second discharge fluid tube and allowing the operation fluid to flow to the pressure increasing portion, the prevention position unblocking the second discharge fluid tube and preventing the operation fluid from flowing to the pressure increasing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Fukuda, Keigo Honda
  • Patent number: 11674535
    Abstract: A hydraulic system including a first cylinder conduit configured to couple to a cylinder, an auxiliary conduit configured to couple to a case drain conduit, and a pressure regulator coupled to the first cylinder conduit and to the auxiliary conduit. The pressure regulator may block fluid flow to the auxiliary conduit if a first fluid pressure is less than or equal to a threshold pressure and enable fluid flow if the first fluid pressure is greater than the threshold pressure. The hydraulic system further includes a supplemental conduit with a check valve that directs fluid from the auxiliary conduit to a reservoir. The check valve blocks fluid flow if a second fluid pressure is less than or equal to a third fluid pressure, and enables fluid flow if the second fluid pressure greater than the third fluid pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Heath A. Toennies
  • Patent number: 11674532
    Abstract: A system and method configured to direct the braking energy from a high-pressure port at the motor side of a hydraulic circuit to emergency steering, braking, accumulator(s) charging, and/or various work functions. The system and method are also configured to return hydraulic fluid back to the same high-pressure port when the motor is running as a pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Wenling Babbitt, W. E. Hoffner, III
  • Patent number: 11668149
    Abstract: Some of the present systems include a hydraulic power storage system having an accumulator configured to supply pressurized hydraulic fluid to a hydraulically actuated device to actuate the hydraulically actuated device and a drain in fluid communication with the accumulator and including a valve that is actuatable to drain hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic power storage system such that an internal pressure of the accumulator is reduced and a flow restrictor configured to reduce a flow rate of hydraulic fluid through the valve, a hydraulic pump configured to pressurize the accumulator, a pressure sensor configured to capture data indicative of the internal pressure of the accumulator, and a processor configured to actuate the hydraulic pump to increase the internal pressure of the accumulator if the internal pressure of the accumulator, as indicated in data captured by the pressure sensor, falls below a threshold pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TRANSOCEAN INNOVATION LABS LTD.
    Inventors: Andrew Leach, Matthew Boike, Stephen Fairfax
  • Patent number: 11661960
    Abstract: A pressure-booster output stabilizer includes: a first cylinder having therein a first chamber and a second chamber separated by a first piston; a second cylinder having therein a third chamber and a fourth chamber separated by a second piston; and a piston rod configured to couple the first piston and the second piston. The primary pressure of a pressure booster is supplied to the first chamber, the secondary pressure of the pressure booster is supplied to the fourth chamber, and the pressurized fluid is taken out from the fourth chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Takakuwa, Kazufumi Waki
  • Patent number: 11661959
    Abstract: A pressure booster includes a pressure boosting unit and a bypass unit. The pressure boosting unit includes an input port connected to the side of a fluid supply source and an output port connected to the side of a tank. The pressure boosting unit boosts the pressure of a pressurized fluid supplied to the input port and outputs the pressure-boosted pressurized fluid from the output port. The bypass unit includes a bypass flow path having one end connected to the fluid supply source side and the other end connected to the output port side. The bypass flow path is provided with a bypass check valve configured to block the flow of the pressurized fluid from the output port side to the fluid supply source side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Takakuwa, Kengo Monden
  • Patent number: 11649812
    Abstract: The hydraulic piston with a depressurized groove is capable of translating in a cylinder and includes a fixed skirt, an axial compression face which forms with the cylinder a fluid chamber, and an axial working face which cooperates with a transmission; the piston also includes a seal, a depressurized radial groove emerging onto the surface of the fixed skirt, an axial decompression duct fitted inside the skirt which emerges in the vicinity of the axial working face, and a radial decompression duct which depressurizes the radial groove in communication with the axial decompression conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventor: Vianney Rabhi
  • Patent number: 11644098
    Abstract: A hydraulic system of a work machine includes a first hydraulic device to operate in a first operation mode while pressure of hydraulic oil supplied from a hydraulic pump via a first oil passage is equal to or higher than a first pressure threshold. The hydraulic oil in the first oil passage is to be discharged via a second oil passage. A pilot check valve is provided in the second oil passage and has a pilot port to receive a pilot pressure of the hydraulic oil. The pilot check valve is closed to stop discharging the hydraulic oil in the first oil passage through the second oil passage while the pilot pressure is lower than the fourth pressure threshold. The pilot check valve is opened while the pilot pressure is higher than or equal to the fourth pressure threshold. The first hydraulic device is a ride control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Fukuda, Kazuyoshi Arii, Ryohei Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 11639730
    Abstract: A device for the deaeration of a hydraulic fluid of a hydraulic system has at least one hydraulic motor arrangement and a hydraulic fluid storage which is hydraulically coupled with this hydraulic motor arrangement. A suction device for sucking out the hydraulic fluid is associated with the at least one hydraulic motor arrangement such that the suction device guides hydraulic fluid out of the hydraulic motor arrangement into the hydraulic fluid storage by means of vacuum pressure (?p). The suction device is constructed as a jet pump and is integrated in the return line between the hydraulic motor arrangement and hydraulic fluid storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: CLAAS Material Handling GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Dueckinghaus, Christian Ostfechtel, Markus Wiefel
  • Patent number: 11629034
    Abstract: A crane telescope locking device includes a control device which is hydraulically in contact with a telescoping cylinder of a crane telescope and, for the purpose of actuating, with at least one cylinder lock hydraulic cylinder and includes a valve which is open in its inactivated resting state and thus opens a fluidic connection between the telescoping cylinder and the at least one cylinder lock hydraulic cylinder. A telescoping cylinder (6) of a crane includes such a crane telescope locking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MANITOWOC CRANE GROUP FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Heidrich, Hasko Karge, Johannes Schuermann
  • Patent number: 11629736
    Abstract: A hydraulic system for an agricultural system includes a hydraulic circuit and a bi-directional filter disposed on a bi-directional fluid line of the hydraulic circuit. The bi-directional filter includes a check valve fluid line having a check valve configured to block a fluid from flowing through the check valve fluid line in a first direction and to enable the fluid to flow through the check valve fluid line in a second direction, opposite the first direction, and a filter fluid line having a filter configured to enable the fluid to flow through the filter fluid line in the first direction and the second direction. The filter is configured to block particles that are greater than a threshold size from passing through the filter fluid line, and the filter fluid line is in a parallel flow configuration with respect to the check valve fluid line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Heath A. Toennies
  • Patent number: 11624379
    Abstract: The hydraulic braking or steering system of a vehicle driven by a hydraulic motor is provided with a secondary supply of hydraulic pressure in the event of failure of the primary supply to the system. The secondary supply is generated by the hydraulic motor when ground-driven by the momentum of the moving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar SARL
    Inventors: Niall Mc Namee, William Christopher Swick
  • Patent number: 11619246
    Abstract: Fail-fixed hydraulic actuator systems for aircraft include a hydraulic actuator having a piston in a housing. The piston separates the housing into a retract cavity and an extend cavity. A sleeve is moveably arranged within the housing and includes a sleeve aperture that is aligned with a piston head during normal operation. A driving mechanism is configured to drive movement of the sleeve to maintain alignment between the sleeve aperture and the piston head. A low pressure cavity is defined between an interior surface of the housing and the sleeve and, when the piston head is offset from the sleeve aperture, the low pressure cavity is hydraulically connected to one of the retract cavity or the extend cavity to cause a pressure differential with the other of the extend cavity and the retract cavity and cause movement of the piston head to align with the sleeve aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Morgan O'Rorke
  • Patent number: 11603829
    Abstract: There is disclosed a hydrostatic axial piston machine having a pulse reduction device. This device has a connection location or tap in the transition region in front of the high-pressure-side kidney-like elongate hole of a distributor plate. The connection location or tap is connected by means of one or two hydraulically passively controlled switching valves to a high-pressure store. It is used for precompression and consequently for the pulse reduction. In a development, the distributor plate also has a connection location or tap in the transition region behind the high-pressure-side kidney-like elongate hole. The connection location or tap is connected via one or two hydraulically passively controlled switching valves to a low-pressure store. This is used for the decompression and consequently also for the pulse reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Breuer, Timo Nafz
  • Patent number: 11603645
    Abstract: When a first control valve and a second control valve are in non-neutral positions, respectively, a fifth fluid passage and a second fluid passage are closed, thereby generating a first pressure within a fifth portion of the fifth fluid passage and a second pressure within a second portion of the second fluid passage, so that the first pressure is applied to a first valve through a fourth fluid passage to move the first valve to close the third fluid passage and a second pressure is applied to the confluence valve through a first fluid passage to move the confluence valve to a confluence position. When the confluence valve is in the confluence position, the confluence valve directs working fluid from a first working fluid supply to the second control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Construction Equipment AB
    Inventors: Dongwook Kim, Manseuk Jeon, Seonggeun Yun, Youngjin Son