Patents by Inventor Egon Kristensen

Egon Kristensen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5813315
    Abstract: A hydraulic piston machine is disclosed, having a cylinder body, which has at least one cylinder, in which a piston is arranged to move back and forth and bears by way of a slide shoe against a control surface, and having a pressure plate which holds the slide shoe in engagement with the control surface. It is desirable to be able to operate such a machine also with a fluid that has no or only poor lubricating properties. To that end, the pressure plate and/or the control surface is provided with a layer of a friction-reducing plastics material at least in one of the regions with which in operation they rub against other parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Egon Kristensen, Lars Martensen, Sten Jensen Olesen
  • Patent number: 5794513
    Abstract: A pressure-applying arrangement in a hydraulic axial piston machine is disclosed, having a pressure plate (7) and a piston (9) that is axially displaceable in a cylinder body (3), is biased by a spring (10) and acts against the pressure plate (7). It should also be possible to use such a pressure-applying arrangement when the axial piston machine is operated with a hydraulic fluid that has no or only very little lubricating property, for example, water. For that purpose, the piston (9) is formed from a high-strength thermoplastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Egon Kristensen
  • Patent number: 5778757
    Abstract: A hydraulic axial piston machine is disclosed, having a cylinder drum, which has at least one cylinder in which a piston is arranged to move back and forth, which piston bears by way of a slide shoe against a swash plate, wherein the cylinder drum and the swash plate are rotatable relative to one another, and a pressure plate, which holds the slide shoe in contact with the swash plate, is joined, articulated, to the cylinder drum by way of a ball-and-socket joint having a convexly spherical bearing surface. It is desirable for manufacture of such a machine to be simplified. To that end, the bearing surface is formed by a friction-reducing plastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Egon Kristensen, Kurt Mamsen
  • Patent number: 5762477
    Abstract: A piston/slide shoe arrangement of a hydraulic piston machine is disclosed having a slide shoe in connection with a piston (4), with a friction reducing plastics material there between, wherein the plastics material, forming channel, extend into a through opening in the slide shoe in a direction towards a sliding contact surface of the slide shoe. The sliding contact surface in operation lies against a swash plate. The slide shoe and the plastics material are provided outside the through-opening with at least one connecting element which takes up the shear forces between the slide shoe and the plastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Hardy Peter Jepsen, Egon Kristensen, Lars Martensen
  • Patent number: 5730043
    Abstract: A hydraulic axial piston motor is disclosed, having a rotatable cylinder drum, in which several work pistons, each provided at one end with a slider shoe, are arranged in work cylinders so as to be axially movable, having a control plate, a swash plate, against which the slider shoes bear, a pressure plate which holds the slider shoes on the swash plate, and a pressure-applying unit, which acts on the pressure plate and comprises a hydraulic piston-cylinder arrangement. Using such a motor it is desirable for an adequate contact pressure to be produced using simple means. For that purpose, the piston-cylinder arrangement is arranged between the cylinder drum and the control plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Egon Kristensen, Hardy Peter Jepsen
  • Patent number: 5722312
    Abstract: A method for mounting a cylinder sleeve in a base member is disclosed, in which the cylinder sleeve is inserted in the base member and the outer diameter of the inserted cylinder sleeve is enlarged at one end, and a hydraulic machine with a base member in which at least one cylinder sleeve is arranged in a cylinder bore. In this connection, it is desirable to be able to use materials for the cylinder sleeve that could not previously be satisfactorily fixed in the base member. For that purpose, the cylinder sleeve is heated before the outer diameter is enlarged. The cylinder bore has at at least one end a gradual enlargement of diameter and the cylinder sleeve has an enlargement of its outer diameter matched to this enlargement of diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Egon Kristensen
  • Patent number: 5716142
    Abstract: A radial journal bearing (5, 6) is indicated, with an interior bearing surface placed facing an exterior bearing surface, where one of the bearing surfaces comprises a slide shoe (7, 8), which has one end with a contact face loaded to contact against the other bearing surface, and where this end is movable in such a manner that the contact against the other bearing surface can be maintained by a relative displacement of the bearing surface at right angles to the direction of the load. Hereby it is achieved that the variation of the leakage between the slide shoe and the opposing bearing surface is essentially reduced, resulting in longer life and greater stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Egon Kristensen, Hardy Peter Jepsen
  • Patent number: 5598761
    Abstract: A hydraulic axial piston machine (1) is disclosed, having a cylinder drum (2) which is mounted rotatably in a housing and comprises at least one cylinder (3) which, on rotation of the cylinder drum (2), passes over control kidneys (15) in a control face. In order to be able to operate such a machine even with hydraulic fluid that has no or only slight lubricating properties, such as, for example, water, and in order to be able to manufacture the machine with few manufacturing steps, the control face is located on the rear flange (9) of the housing, and the control kidneys (15) are formed in a plastics material insert (10) which is arranged in the rear flange (9) of the machine (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Egon Kristensen, Sten J. Olesen