Patents Examined by Michael Quandt
  • Patent number: 11499296
    Abstract: To provide a construction machine that has a hydraulic system mounted thereon in which a closed-circuit pump, and an open-circuit pump and a proportional valve are arranged as a pair, and that makes it possible to use an unused open-circuit pump or proportional valve to accelerate the speed of a single rod hydraulic cylinder when the single rod hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor are driven simultaneously. A controller (51) controls a cap-side selector valve (46) and a rod-side selector valve (47) such that a particular open-circuit pump (15) not connected to a single rod hydraulic cylinder (3) is connected to the single rod hydraulic cylinder, and controls an opening area of a particular proportional valve (49) provided on a flow line that connects a delivery port of the particular open-circuit pump to a tank, when the single rod hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic motor (7) are driven simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamasa Kai, Juri Shimizu, Kenji Hiraku, Hiromasa Takahashi, Teppei Saitou
  • Patent number: 11479949
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes an axle frame extending in a left-right direction, a cylinder coupled to the axle frame, and a first supply conduit connected to the cylinder and configured to supply hydraulic fluid to the cylinder. The first supply conduit is fixed to the axle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Numa, Ikki Hirose
  • Patent number: 11473554
    Abstract: A radial piston hydraulic motor comprising a box frame with a cam ring connected thereto, pistons in a piston frame and press rollers in the pistons, which press rollers can be pressed by means of the pressure of a hydraulic fluid, such as hydraulic oil, against an inner surface of the cam ring. The piston frame comprises connections between the interior space and passages, and a shutter valve is provided within each connection for controlling the hydraulic fluid flow through the connection between the passages and the interior space. The shutter valve is arranged to allow hydraulic fluid to flow from the passage into the interior space, when the pressure in the working pressure inlet passage, in the return passage and in the interior space is equal, i.e. the motor is in free-rotating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: BLACK BRUIN INC.
    Inventor: Tero Ylä-Mononen
  • Patent number: 11454002
    Abstract: A hydraulic drive system for a work machine including a hydraulic energy recovery device that is configured to perform load sensing control and accumulates hydraulic fluid that returns from a hydraulic cylinder in operation of lowering a front work implement into an accumulator includes, in order to prevent, when operation other than operation of lowering the front work implement is to be performed, hydraulic energy accumulated in the accumulator from being consumed uselessly, a regeneration selector valve in a hydraulic line for regenerating the hydraulic fluid accumulated in the accumulator into a hydraulic fluid supply line of a main pump. The regeneration selector valve is controlled such that, only when saturation occurs with the main pump, flow from the accumulator to the hydraulic fluid supply line is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiwamu Takahashi, Taihei Maehara, Takeshi Ishii
  • Patent number: 11448244
    Abstract: A hydraulic system includes a first output fluid tube connecting between a hydraulic pump to output operation fluid and a first operation valve to change a first pilot pressure of the operation fluid, a second output fluid tube connected between the hydraulic pump and a second operation valve to change a second pilot pressure of the operation fluid, a switching valve provided in the second output fluid tube, and a warm-up fluid tube connected between the first operation valve and the switching valve, wherein the switching valve is switched between a first position allowing the operation fluid to be drained through the first output fluid tube, the first operation valve, the warm-up fluid tube and the switching valve, and a second position allowing the operation fluid to be supplied through second output fluid tube to the second operation valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11434935
    Abstract: A hydraulic pressure supply device includes: a hydraulic pump capable of changing a discharge capacity; an electric motor capable of changing a rotational frequency; a discharge capacity adjustment mechanism capable of adjusting the discharge capacity of the pump between a maximum and minimum discharge capacity; a pressure detector configured to detect pressure of an operating liquid discharged from the pump; a rotational frequency detector configured to detect the rotational frequency of the motor; and a controller configured to control operations of the motor and adjustment mechanism based on the rotational frequency, detected by the detector, to keep pressure of an actuator at arbitrary pressure, wherein, the controller controls the operation of the adjustment mechanism so the discharge capacity of the pump becomes a set lower limit discharge capacity. The set lower limit discharge capacity is set to be larger than the minimum discharge capacity and be adjustable by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kondo, Hiroaki Mitsui, Toshihisa Toyota, Takashi Nakatsuji
  • Patent number: 11434934
    Abstract: A system including a pneumatic actuator with an actuator member and a compressed air supply device which is configured to apply compressed air to the pneumatic actuator in order to set the actuator member in an actuator member movement towards an end position of the pneumatic actuator, wherein the compressed air supply device is further configured to provide an end position damping for the actuator member movement and, during the end position damping, to adjust a conductance value of a discharge valve, via which the compressed air supply device discharges compressed air from a pressure chamber of the pneumatic actuator which pressure chamber counteracts the actuator member movement, in accordance with a conductance characteristic in dependence of a driving force acting on the actuator member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Klassen, Gerhard Gommel
  • Patent number: 11434983
    Abstract: A torque converter includes an impeller and a cover rotationally fixed to the impeller. The cover has opposing inner and outer surfaces and a through hole extending from the inner surface to the outer surface. A stud is attached to the cover. The stud has a head and a shank extending from the head. The head defines an annular projection circumscribing the shank and raised from the head. The stud is disposed on the cover with the shank extending through the hole to project from the outer surface and with the head being connected to the cover by coalescence between the annular projection and the inner surface creating a hermetic seal around the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Justin Persinger, Craig McBurney
  • Patent number: 11408445
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motion control unit that is capable of receiving electrical power from an electrical power source and hydraulic power from a hydraulic power source. The motion control is configured to produce a blended power output derived from the electrical and hydraulic power which can be used to power a hydraulic actuator. The motion control unit can also split hydraulic power recovered from hydraulic actuator to the electrical power source and the hydraulic power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: DANFOSS POWER SOLUTIONS II TECHNOLOGY A/S
    Inventors: Meng Wang, Jalpa Shah, Damrongrit Piyabongkarn
  • Patent number: 11401688
    Abstract: A control device of a loading machine includes an adjustment determination unit and an operation signal output unit. The loading machine includes a swing motor and a swing body. The adjustment determination unit determines whether or not an angle formed by an azimuth direction of a swing body when the swing body stops and a target stop azimuth direction is less than an allowable angle based on an azimuth direction, a swing speed, and the target stop azimuth direction of the swing body during braking of the swing motor. The operation signal output unit outputs a swing control signal for driving the swing motor in a case in which it is determined that the angle formed by the azimuth direction of the swing body when the swing body stops and the target stop azimuth direction is equal to or greater than the allowable angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta Okuwaki, Yusuke Saigo
  • Patent number: 11401955
    Abstract: A piston-cylinder unit having a cylinder housing (1) with a cylinder interior (2) and a piston (3) arranged in cylinder interior (2), from which a piston rod (4) starts and is guided out from the cylinder housing (1) through an opening and at the same time is sealed with respect to the cylinder housing (1) by a piston rod seal (12) arranged on the cylinder housing (1). A sliding sleeve (11) made of plastic and entrained by the piston rod (4) is arranged on the piston rod (4), and the piston rod seal (12) bears against said sliding sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: VAT Holding AG
    Inventor: Martin Kienreich
  • Patent number: 11378105
    Abstract: A gas cylinder actuator with safety device for uncontrolled return of the piston-stem, comprising: a tubular containment jacket, two opposing heads for closing the tubular jacket, a first head which is provided with a through hole for passage and for translation guidance with respect to an axis of symmetry for a piston-stem, and a second, opposing head, a piston-stem, which comprises a stem portion and a piston portion, sealing elements which are arranged so as to act against the stem portion at the passage and guidance hole, a chamber for pressurized gas being defined between the tubular jacket, the heads and the piston-stem; such gas cylinder actuator comprises, between the first head and the piston portion, a bushing, which is coupled to the tubular jacket with elements of preventing translation with respect to the axis, and is designed to encounter the piston portion, the bushing being configured to at least be deformed in the event of impact with the piston portion owing to the uncontrolled return of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SPECIAL SPRINGS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Massimo Fiorese, Daniel Fantinato, Francesco Bordin
  • Patent number: 11358359
    Abstract: A hydraulic machine unit that can be operated with various working forces, in which working medium is selectively delivered, via a pump-piston accumulator system, to a main cylinder and at least one driving cylinder, wherein at least for one working stroke a pump system of the pump-piston accumulator system is used to provide working medium to a piston accumulator of the pump-piston accumulator system, and then at least for the working stroke at least the main cylinder is charged with a working pressure from the piston accumulator, and wherein at least for a return stroke the at least one driving cylinder is charged with a return stroke pressure from the pump-piston accumulator system, can be of structurally simple configuration if, at reduced working forces, the working pressure is reduced with respect to the piston accumulator pressure prevailing in the piston accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Zensen
  • Patent number: 11353111
    Abstract: A rotary mixer can include a frame, a rotor attached to the frame, four wheels attached to the frame for moving the rotary mixer, and a drive system for driving the four wheels, the drive system can include four independent hydrostatic drive loops, each of the independent hydrostatic drive loops associated with one of the wheels such that each one of the independent hydrostatic drive loops independently drives one of the four wheels; wherein the drive system includes a pressure balance mode of operation for relatively good traction ground or road conditions, and a wheel speed synchronization mode of operation for relatively poor traction ground or road conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Olson, Corwin E. Storer, Ryan A. Enot, Matthew-David S. Frantz, Derek P. Nieuwsma, Rustin G. Metzger, Nathaniel S. Doy
  • Patent number: 11293460
    Abstract: The present invention provides an engineering machinery hydraulic system with compensation differential pressure controllable, uses an electronic pressure compensating valve to solve the problem of flow mismatch under conditions of pressure over-limit and flow saturation, and realizes proportional shunt control and high-precision flow distribution of the system. The engineering machinery hydraulic system disclosed in the present invention has the advantages of low energy consumption, fast response speed, and high flow control precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Long Quan, Bo Wang, Lei Ge, Xiangyu Wang, Zepeng Li, He Liu
  • Patent number: 11286645
    Abstract: A hydraulic system includes a first hydraulic actuator, a second hydraulic actuator, a first pump to supply operation fluid to the first hydraulic actuator, a second pump to supply operation fluid to the second hydraulic actuator, a second control valve to control operation fluid to be supplied from the second pump to the second hydraulic actuator, and a first control valve including a main control valve to control operation fluid to be supplied from the first pump to the first hydraulic actuator, and a subordinate control valve configured to control operation fluid to be supplied from the second pump to the second control valve and to the first hydraulic actuator. The operation fluid supplied from the second pump is confluent with operation fluid to be supplied from the first pump to the first pump, in a case of activating both of the first hydraulic actuator and the second hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisayuki Hiramatsu, Kazuaki Shobu
  • Patent number: 11261962
    Abstract: A hydrostatic travel drive includes a hydraulic pump for the purpose of supplying pressure medium to a hydraulic motor of the travel drive that can be coupled to an output, which pump can be coupled to a drive machine. The hydraulic pump has an actuating cylinder with at least one cylinder chamber and a swept volume which can be adjusted via the actuating cylinder, and at least one electrically activatable pressure valve via which the cylinder chamber can be charged with an adjustingly active actuating pressure. The travel drive further includes device via which a pressure of the hydraulic pump can be limited by means of influencing the actuating pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Mueller, Michael Frasch, Steffen Mutschler, Ulrich Lenzgeiger
  • Patent number: 11255354
    Abstract: A control valve has a first and second pilot chambers facing both ends of a spool, a signal pressure passage configured to lead a pilot pressure of the first and second pilot chambers to another device other than the control valve as a signal pressure, a communication groove configured to allow the first pilot chamber and the signal pressure passage to communicate with each other, a communication hole configured to allow the second pilot chamber and the signal pressure passage to communicate with each other, and a check valve interposed in the communication hole, and the check valve has a poppet portion configured to open or close the communication hole and a spacer portion configured to regulate a moving amount of the poppet portion in an open direction, and the control valve further includes a movement regulating portion configured to regulate movement of the spacer portion toward the poppet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KYB CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kitani
  • Patent number: 11242873
    Abstract: A pneumatic or hydraulic mechanism has a housing defining a piston chamber and having a fluid inlet port. A piston is slidable in the piston chamber. The piston partitions the piston chamber into a front chamber and a rear chamber. The piston has one or more passages for fluid communication between the rear chamber and the front chamber, the one or more passages being sealed by a sealing mechanism. The sealing mechanism has a sealing state in which the sealing mechanism substantially inhibits fluid communication between the rear chamber and the front chamber, and a non-sealing state in which the sealing mechanism allows fluid communication between the rear chamber and the front chamber. The piston is slidable between a first position and a second position. When the piston is positioned in the first position, the sealing mechanism is in the sealing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventor: David John Moodie
  • Patent number: 11215201
    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, the second control valve being arranged on a downstream side of the first control valve, and a discharge fluid tube in which the operation fluid flows. The hydraulic system further includes a first fluid tube in which a return fluid flows toward the second control valve. The hydraulic system further includes a second fluid tube in which a supply fluid flows toward the first hydraulic actuator, a third fluid tube coupling the first fluid tube to the discharge fluid tube, and a fourth fluid tube in which the return fluid flows toward the second fluid tube, the fourth fluid tube being connected to the first fluid tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Fukuda, Keigo Honda