Patents by Inventor Gunnar L. Hansen

Gunnar L. Hansen 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: 6572353
    Abstract: A hydraulic motor has a housing with an inner toothed ring, and an outer toothed wheel eccentrically mounted within the ring, with pressure pocket space between the teeth of the ring and the wheel. The wheel is eccentrically rotatably and orbitally mounted within the ring. A rotary slide valve is mounted within the wheel. A valve plate with an open center is adjacent the wheel. A rotary slide valve is positioned within the open center of the valve plate. Fluid under pressure in passageways is provided to a front group of pressure pocket spaces to cause the wheel to rotate. An output shaft is operatively connected to the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Sauer-Danfoss Holding A/S
    Inventor: Gunnar L. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20020081225
    Abstract: A hydraulic motor has a housing with an inner toothed ring, and an outer toothed wheel eccentrically mounted within the ring, with pressure pocket space between the teeth of the ring and the wheel. The wheel is eccentrically rotatably and orbitally mounted within the ring. A rotary slide valve is mounted within the wheel. A valve plate with an open center is adjacent the wheel. A rotary slide valve is positioned within the open center of the valve plate. Fluid under pressure in passageways is provided to a front group of pressure pocket spaces to cause the wheel to rotate. An output shaft is operatively connected to the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventor: Gunnar L. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20020076345
    Abstract: A hydraulic pump has a housing with an inner toothed ring, and an outer toothed wheel eccentrically mounted within the ring, with pressure pocket space between the teeth of the ring and the wheel. The wheel is eccentrically rotatably and orbitally mounted within the ring. A rotary slide valve is mounted within the wheel. A valve plate with an open center is adjacent the wheel. A rotary slide valve is positioned within the open center of the valve plate. Fluid under pressure in passageways is provided to a front group of pressure pocket spaces to cause the wheel to rotate. A shaft is operatively connected to the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventor: Gunnar L. Hansen
  • Patent number: 5628626
    Abstract: A hydraulic machine is disclosed, with a gearwheel, which has a midpoint (6) and a predetermined number of external teeth, and an annular gear, which has a midpoint (7) offset by an eccentricity (E) with respect to the midpoint (6) of the gearwheel and a number of internal teeth which exceeds by one the number of external teeth, the gearwheel and annular gear orbiting and/or rotating relative to one another and at least the form of the external teeth being created using a set of circles (30, 30'; 35, 35') lying with their midpoints (P1-P6; P1'-P6') on a trochoid (36, 37). It is desirable for the efficiency, service life and noise properties of such a machine to be improved. To that end, at least two trochoids (36, 37), displaced relative to one another in the circumferential direction, are provided for generating a tooth profile, the rolling circles (28, 33) of which and the base circles (27, 32) of which differ from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Gunnar L. Hansen
  • Patent number: 5595479
    Abstract: A hydraulic machine is disclosed, having an annular gear with internal teeth and a gearwheel with external teeth mounted eccentrically therein, the internal teeth comprising one more tooth than the external teeth and the teeth of at least one set of teeth being formed by rotatably mounted rollers. It is desirable in such a machine for the internal seal to be improved and wear to be reduced. To that end, each roller has in its surface at least three axially parallel recesses, in which the teeth of the other set of teeth engage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Gunnar L. Hansen, Hans C. Petersen
  • Patent number: 4776257
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjustable axial piston engine having spaced apart end walls with a shaft extending between the end walls. A rotary carrier is attached to the shaft adjacent one of the end walls and an oblique adjusting plate is mounted adjacent the other end wall. A piston-cylinder unit extends between the carrier and the oblique plate. A pivot axis for the oblique plate includes a bearing arrangement between the plate and the adjacent end wall. A servo unit for adjustably rotating the plate about the pivot axis is provided between the plate and the adjacent end wall. The piston-cylinder unit is carried by the carrier and is slidably engageable with the oblique plate. Flanges are provided for the piston-cylinder units which are spring biased into engagement with the oblique plate via a spring biased pressure plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Gunnar L. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4703682
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjustable axial piston engine having spaced apart end walls with a shaft extending between the end walls. A rotary carrier is attached to the shaft adjacent one of the end walls and an oblique adjusting plate is mounted adjacent the other end wall. A piston-cylinder unit extends between the carrier and the oblique plate. A pivot axis for the oblique plate includes a bearing arrangement between the plate and the adjacent end wall. A servo unit for adjustably rotating the plate about the pivot axis is provided between the plate and the adjacent end wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Gunnar L. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4435130
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic planetary piston motor of the type having an externally serrated pinion gear which meshes with an internally serrated ring gear and has rotatable and orbital movement relative thereto. The unit has plate type distributor valving with fixed and moveable members and a piston, subject to control pressures on both sides thereof, for biasing the moveable valve member into sealing engagement with the fixed valve member. A change-over valve which may be pressure controllable functions to either cause biasing of the piston to effect the sealing mode or to relieve the biasing to cause a separation of the valve members to effect a short circuiting unloading thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Carl V. Ohrberg, Gunnar L. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4316707
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gerotor type of rotary piston machine. In this type of device an externally toothed rotor member is eccentrically offset relative to an internally toothed stator member and in operation these members mesh to form expanding and contracting cells on opposite sides of the line of eccentricity. There is a shaft means for driving the rotor and a distributing valve for feeding and exhausting the cells. The distributing valve, which is normally connected to the drive shaft, is connected to the rotor member for movement therewith adjacent to the rotor and stator member. An annular chamber is formed between the periphery of the distributing valve and the interior of the casing. One set of the distributing ports is formed as ports within the confines of the periphery of the valve. The other set of distributing ports are formed by the periphery of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1982
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Gunnar L. Hansen, Christian B. Hansen