Abstract: A device for stamping a depression in a sheet-like workpiece and for piercing the workpiece in the region of the stamped depression, including a punch unit and a die unit between which the workpiece can be positioned. The punch unit has a punch with a forming punch and with a piercing punch. The forming punch bears against a side of the workpiece in the region of the depression during the stamping of the depression. The piercing punch pierces the workpiece in the region of the depression. The forming punch and the piercing punch are moved along a joining axis of the device. The forming punch and the piercing punch are accommodated in a punch housing, and the forming punch and the piercing punch are driven via a common hydraulic supply system relative to the punch housing along the joining axis of the device.

Abstract: A valve for controlling a hydropneumatic device for pressure intensifying having a working plunger and an intensifier plunger for pressure intensifying, the intensifier plunger being designed to move the working plunger hydraulically with a comparatively high transmission ratio on account of a pneumatic actuation, the valve having a differential plunger arrangement with a first plunger with a first active plunger face in a first pressure space and a second plunger with a second active plunger face in a second pressure space, the first plunger being coupled to the second plunger, the first pressure space being equipped with a first connector for, for example, a pneumatic return stroke space of the working plunger, and the second pressure space being equipped with a second connector for a pneumatic pressure source which differs from the return stroke space.

Abstract: A hydropneumatic device having pressure a working part with a working piston guided in the working part and an intensifier part with an intensifier piston guided in the intensifier part. A connecting section for a hydraulic connection of the working part and of the intensifier part provides a connecting line for passage of hydraulic fluid between the working part and the intensifier part. The connecting section includes an adapter component which can be mounted on the working part and the intensifier part, and in the interior of which the connecting line is formed. In the mounted state of the adapter component, an opening, which is provided at the side on the working part, of a hydraulic chamber of the working part is connected, via the connecting line, to an opening, which is provided at the side on the intensifier part, of a hydraulic chamber of the intensifier part.

Abstract: A hydropneumatic device having pressure a working part with a working piston guided in the working part and an intensifier part with an intensifier piston guided in the intensifier part. A connecting section for a hydraulic connection of the working part and of the intensifier part provides a connecting line for passage of hydraulic fluid between the working part and the intensifier part. The connecting section includes an adapter component which can be mounted on the working part and the intensifier part, and in the interior of which the connecting line is formed. In the mounted state of the adapter component, an opening, which is provided at the side on the working part, of a hydraulic chamber of the working part is connected, via the connecting line, to an opening, which is provided at the side on the intensifier part, of a hydraulic chamber of the intensifier part.

Abstract: A valve for controlling a hydropneumatic device for pressure intensifying having a working plunger and an intensifier plunger for pressure intensifying, the intensifier plunger being designed to move the working plunger hydraulically with a comparatively high transmission ratio on account of a pneumatic actuation, the valve having a differential plunger arrangement with a first plunger with a first active plunger face in a first pressure space and a second plunger with a second active plunger face in a second pressure space, the first plunger being coupled to the second plunger, the first pressure space being equipped with a first connector for, for example, a pneumatic return stroke space of the working plunger, and the second pressure space being equipped with a second connector for a pneumatic pressure source which differs from the return stroke space.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for operating a hydropneumatic device (1) for pressure multiplication, with a working piston and a multiplier piston (9) for pressure multiplication on to the working piston and with an accumulator piston (3) for an urgent movement of the working piston by forcing hydraulic fluid out of an accumulator chamber (12), wherein a ventilation opening (13) is provided in the accumulator chamber (12), through which air drawn into the accumulator chamber (12) can be discharged during a maintenance process. According to the invention for an operating mode in which power strokes are executed, the hydraulic fluid volume in the accumulator chamber (12) is discharged below the ventilation opening (13) in the accumulator chamber. The hydraulic fluid pump is additionally disclosed.

Abstract: Proposed is a hydro-pneumatic pressure transformation device with a working piston (3) and a transformer piston (17) for transforming the pressure exerted upon the working piston (3), wherein the transformer piston (17) features a working stroke chamber (19) for the power stroke and a return stroke chamber (15) for the return stroke, and wherein the working stroke chamber (19) can be subjected to an operating pressure for the power stroke. According to the invention, pressurization means are provided for changing over the return stroke chamber (15) between a low pressure that lies at least approximately in the range of atmospheric pressure or at atmospheric pressure and an intermediate pressure that lies between the low pressure and the operating pressure during the course of the power stroke and the return stroke. A method for operating a hydro-pneumatic device is also proposed.