Abstract: A propulsion system includes a rotation member, a first mass and a motor. The rotation member has a length extending between first and second ends and an axle of rotation between the first and second ends transverse to the length. The first mass is coupled with the rotation member at the first end and rotatable relative to the rotation member about a first mass axis. The first motor is configured to, while the rotation member is rotating about the axle of rotation, translate the axle of rotation along a path perpendicular to both the length and the axle of rotation by applying a force to accelerate rotation of the first mass about the first mass axis.

Abstract: A method for converting thermal energy into kinetic energy comprising a venturi wherein an external warm gas through an intake undergoes convergent-flow adiabatic expansion to produce kinetic energy with a temperature drop, and then distinctively uses divergent-flow polytropic compression with cooling resulting in an exhaust temperature cooler than intake, providing a net kinetic energy output from the sustaining venturi exhaust.

Abstract: An SMA actuation assembly comprising SMA actuator wires connected in tension between a support structure and a movable element is controlled to drive movement of the movable element with respect to the support structure by supplying drive signals to the SMA actuator wire. Target signals representing desired positions of the movable element are set, varying within a predetermined spatial envelope. Measures of resistance of the SMA actuator wires are derived and the power of the drive signals is controlled under closed loop control on the basis of the target signals and feedback signals obtained from the measures of resistance. Electrical characteristics of the SMA actuator wires are monitored and used to detect when a motion limit of the movement is reached. In response thereto, the spatial envelope is adjusted to restrict the movement to be within the detected motion limit.

Abstract: An axial reciprocation device having a main piston and an anchor piston coupled to one another via a swivel joint interconnecting 20 a pair of connecting rods, the main piston positioned in a main cylinder bore and the anchor piston positioned in an anchor piston bore of a housing, such that the main piston is configured for axial reciprocation in the main cylinder bore; wherein variable positioning of the anchor piston along the anchor piston bore results in variable displacement of the main piston of hydraulic fluid with respect to an inlet/outlet port of the housing.

Abstract: An electric-driven air pump includes an outer housing unit, an electric-driven mechanism and a piston mechanism. The outer housing unit includes a connecting seat with a gas outlet section, and a cylinder with a cylinder chamber. The electric mechanism is mounted to the outer housing unit and includes a motor. The piston mechanism includes a driven piston disposed in the cylinder chamber, a threaded driving rod formed with a helical guide slot, rotated by the motor, and connected to the driven piston such that rotation of the threaded driving rod drives reciprocal movement of the driven piston in the cylinder chamber, and a guide pin fixed in the driven piston and extending into the helical guide slot to be driven along the helical guide slot.

Abstract: A method for operating a tandem motor linear rod pumping apparatus that includes first and second linear mechanical actuator systems each having a motor, and also includes a rod for a sucker-rod pump. The method calls for constructing the first and second linear mechanical actuator systems to operate within a single housing, and simultaneously operating each of the two motors in a manner that imparts reciprocating vertical motion to respective-vertically movable members of the first and second linear mechanical actuator systems. Each motor has a reversibly rotatable element that is operatively connected to the vertically-movable member of its respective linear mechanical actuator system, thus establishing a fixed relationship between the rotational position of the rotatable element and the vertical position of its respective vertically-movable member. The simultaneous operation of the two motors imparts a reciprocating vertical motion to the pump rod of the sucker-rod pump.

Abstract: An oil pumping system to carry oil from an oil sump in a pump housing to an internal oil reservoir in another portion of the pump housing. A top plate is attached to a pump rod and moves in accordance with a reciprocating motion of the pump rod. A bottom plate is below the top plate. A pump mechanism, disposed between the top plate and bottom plate, includes a valve seat that contacts the bottom plate, and an upper portion that contacts the top plate. A first biasing element is configured to urge the valve seat upward away from the bottom plate. A second biasing element is configured to urge the plunger upward away from the valve seat. Upward movement of the pump rod allows oil to flow into the pump mechanism. Downward movement of the pump rod causes the bottom of the valve seat to seal against the bottom plate.

Abstract: Systems and method of electrical power generation. The system and method controls the timescale of electron dynamics and makes use of avalanche ionization, electrodynamic flows, magnetic fields, polarization, radiation emissions, shock wave front, impulse pressure, and heat transfer, created by plasma generated by exposing a fluid to an ultrashort wavelength laser pulse from a femtosecond laser, a nanosecond laser combined with a femtosecond laser, or a typical laser enhanced by a discharge barrier, and the fluid guided by a shock reflecting tube, electro-laser wave guide, plasma discharge gap or check valves that create vortexes to resist backflow, through a capacitor. The fluid and plasma being accumulated and recombined in a storage chamber in a compressed state, or recycled for cyclical power generation.

Abstract: A compressor includes a cylinder housing having a number of pistons, a control chamber communicating with piston casings, a suction chamber and a discharge chamber communicating with the piston casings, a control valve includes a receptacle engaged in the cylinder housing, a valve member engaged in the receptacle for controlling the pressurized air to flow from the discharge chamber into the control chamber of the cylinder housing, and a valve element for controlling a bypass of the pressurized air through the receptacle. A bellow device is connected to actuate the sliding member internally, and a sliding member is slidably engaged in the control space of the receptacle, and to operate the valve element externally with a solenoid device.

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor and a method for manufacturing a reciprocating compressor are provided. The reciprocating compressor may include a damper provided at a cylinder block. The damper may include a damper base coupled to the cylinder block and formed of plastic, and a rubber damping portion provided on the damper base to prevent contact between the damper base and the shell, so that friction noise between a base and the shell of the compressor may be reduced.

Abstract: A cordless compressor has an air storage tank, a pump for pressuring air within the air storage tank, a motor driving pump, a power tool battery pack connected to the motor, a discharge port connected to the air storage tank, and a regulator disposed between the discharge port and the air storage tank. The pump can raise the air pressure within the air storage tank from 0 psi to about 135 psi in less than 135 seconds. With such arrangement, a compressor having an air pressure within the air storage tank of 135 psi set at a 70 psi setting can power an 18 gauge nailer connected to the compressor to drive more than 1200 nails on a single battery charge.

Abstract: A pump cartridge for mounting on a drive rotor includes a roller assembly having first and second hubs maintained in a spaced apart relationship and defining an axis, and a plurality of planetary rollers arranged in a circumferentially spaced orientation about the axis, the rollers mounted to the hubs displacement radially outward. One or more compressible tubing lines are interposed between the rollers and an interior wall of the pump cartridge housing. The housing and the first and second hubs collectively define a passageway through which a spreader on the drive rotor extends and may be rotated relative to the roller assembly to displace the rollers radially outward to thereby compress the tubing lines against the interior wall. A coupling feature on the first hub engages a roller driving feature of the rotor, so that rotation of the rotor causes rotation of the roller assembly about the axis.

Abstract: A method for controlling and/or monitoring a compressor system is provided. The compressor system includes one or more compressors and one or more peripheral devices. The compressors and the peripheral devices are arranged or connected in a predetermined configuration. The compressor system is controlled and/or monitored by a control/monitoring unit. After creation of the compressor system, the concretely existing configuration is input in the form of a P&I diagram by an editor and forms the basis for subsequent control, monitoring, diagnosis or evaluation routines.

Abstract: A monitoring system may include a position sensor, strain gauges, and a computing device for monitoring valves in a wellbore pressure pump having multiple chambers to determine cavitation in the fluid end of the wellbore pressure pump using strain measurements for each chamber. The strain gauges may determine strain in each chamber of the pressure pump. The position sensor may determine the position of a crankshaft mechanically coupled to a plunger in each chamber. The computing device may receive signals generated by the strain gauges and the position sensor related to the strain in each chamber and the position of the crankshaft, respectively, and may process the signals to determine delays in the actuation of the valves for identifying cavitation and distinguishing cavitation conditions from alternative conditions in the fluid end.

Abstract: A proportional metering pump includes a hydraulic machine, a metering mechanism provided with a nozzle, and a unit for attaching the nozzle to the pipe for access to the cavity inside the hydraulic machine, including a securing ring mounted in rotation about one of the ends of the nozzle, a locking ring mounted so as to be able to translate along the longitudinal axis around the pipe for access to the mixing chamber and is pressed, in the direction of the metering mechanism, against a shoulder created on the access pipe by a spring, the securing ring and the pipe being able to engage following a screw connection at the end of which they are secured in rotation so as to prevent unscrewing of the securing ring. Also disclosed is a method for assembling and disassembling a metering mechanism on a hydraulic machine of such a pump.

Abstract: A two-stage variable-displacement oil pump includes a casing having a suction port for suctioning oil stored in an oil tank and a discharge port for discharging, to a main gallery; an outer cam ring rotatably installed with respect to a pivot shaft provided inside the casing and having a rotary chamber therein; a rotor installed to be eccentric relative to the outer cam ring, rotating in concert with a rotation of a driving shaft, and including a plurality of vanes radially and slidably installed on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor; a support spring having one end contacting a spring support part formed on an outer side surface of the cam ring and the other end contacting an inner side surface of the casing; and a regulating chamber provided between the outer cam ring and the casing.

Abstract: A scavenge pump includes: a pump housing including a housing body and a cover member, the housing body having a rotor chamber in which an inlet port, an outlet port, and a bearing hole formed by shaft holes with varying diameters with a stepped surface therebetween are provided; an outer rotor housed in the rotor chamber and having inner teeth; an inner rotor having outer teeth and a shaft support hole; and a drive shaft inserted or fixedly attached to the shaft support hole. The bearing hole includes a stepped inner circumferential part having a larger diameter than that of the drive shaft at an open peripheral edge on one side facing the rotor chamber, and a groove that extends through between a point close to a trailing end of the outlet port and the stepped inner circumferential part is formed.

Abstract: Provided is a scroll fluid machine capable of effectively achieving performance of a tip seal installed in a tooth crest of a wall including an inclined portion. The inclined portion in which a distance between opposing surfaces of end plates facing each other gradually decreases from an outer peripheral side toward an inner peripheral side is provided. A tip seal (7) configured to make contact with a tooth base facing the tip seal (7) to perform sealing against fluid is provided in tip seal groove (3d) formed in a tooth crest of a wall (3b) corresponding to the inclined portion. In a stop state where a scroll (3) does not perform compression of fluid, an inclination height (Ls?) of the tip seal (7) is smaller than an inclination height (Ls) of the wall (3b).

Abstract: Provided is a scroll fluid machine that makes it possible to attenuate the bending stress applied to the base of a wall body having an inclined section. The scroll fluid machine is provided with a wall body inclined section in which the distance between the facing surfaces of an end plate of a fixed scroll and an end plate of a rotating scroll that face each other continuously decreases from the outer circumferential side toward the inner circumferential side. A mesh clearance that is a gap between wall bodies formed when the wall bodies mesh with each other is larger on the outer circumferential side of the inclined section than on the inner circumferential side of the inclined section. The mesh clearance is made larger by drawing the wall surface of a wall body further back toward the central side of the wall body in the thickness direction than the original wall surface profile thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a separator device of a compressor for the deposition of a fluid, in particular a lubricant from a coolant fluid of the compressor, including a separator cylinder having an inlet region for the coolant fluid and an outlet region for the deposited fluid spaced apart from inlet in an axial direction of the cylinder, and a separation tube configured and arranged coaxially in the separator cylinder. The separation tube extends at least over the inlet region of the separator cylinder such that the separation tube is spaced apart from the separator cylinder in a radial direction in the inlet region. A spring-loaded closure is configured and arranged in the inlet region to automatically regulate a flow velocity of a volume flow of the coolant fluid flowing through the inlet as a function of a pressure at the inlet.

Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing, a screw rotor, a discharge passage, and at least one muffler space. The casing includes a cylindrically-shaped cylinder, a main body surrounding a vicinity of the cylinder, and a high-pressure fluid passage provided between the main body and the cylinder. The screw rotor includes a plurality of helical grooves. The screw rotor is inserted into the cylinder to define fluid chambers. A fluid is sucked into the fluid chambers to compress the fluid. The discharge passage is disposed in the casing. The discharge passage guides the fluid that has been discharged from the fluid chambers to the high-pressure fluid passage. The at least one muffler space is disposed in the casing. The at least one muffler space communicates with the discharge passage so as to reduce a pressure fluctuation of the fluid flowing from the discharge passage to the high-pressure fluid passage.

Abstract: A submersible pump comprising a pump body and a top cover, wherein the pump body is detachably connected to the top cover, and it is sealed and isolated between the inside of the pump body and the inside of the top cover; the submersible pump also comprises a battery for powering the submersible pump and the battery is provided within the top cover. The submersible pump described in the disclosure is easy to use and carry.

Abstract: A water pumping control device may include a primary power source and a secondary power source. The primary power source may be configured to provide a primary power input to a processing unit, and the secondary power source may be configured to provide a secondary power input to the processing unit. A primary pump and a secondary pump may be in communication with the processing unit, and the primary pump and the secondary pump may each be variable in speed. The primary pump and the secondary pump may each be in fluid communication with a sump so that when a pump is activated, the pump may remove water from the sump. A water level sensor may be in communication with the processing unit, and the water level sensor may be configured to provide a water level input describing a water level in the sump to the processing unit.

Abstract: An electric pump includes: a motor that drives a pump; and a control unit to which an input signal for driving the motor is input from an external device, which outputs a drive signal based on the input signal, and which outputs a pulse signal indicating a rotation state of the motor to the external device, in which the control unit is configured to change both of a frequency and a duty ratio of the pulse signal so as to be capable of discriminating whether the motor is in a drive state or a stop state and between a plurality of states of the motor in the stop state.

Abstract: An exhausting system capable of preventing gas condensation and early overheat in a vacuum pump without causing an increase in the costs of the entire exhausting system and suitable for relaxing the operable conditions of the entire exhausting system including a flow rate at which gas is successively exhausted. An exhausting system is predicated on a constitution including: at least a first vacuum pump and a second vacuum pump connected in series; and a connecting portion disposed therebetween, the exhausting system exhausting gas containing a condensable gas via the vacuum pumps and the connecting portion. In the exhausting system, an environment inside the connecting portion is set to an environment having a vapor phase region below a vapor pressure curve of the condensable gas flowing through an inside of the connecting portion by providing the second vacuum pump near the first vacuum pump.

Abstract: A vacuum pump comprises: a pump device configured to rotate a rotor about a rotation axis supported by a ball bearing, thereby discharging gas sucked through a pump suction port from a pump exhaust port; and a control device attached to a side surface along a direction of the rotation axis of the pump device, including an electronic circuit having a heat generation element and a housing configured to house the electronic circuit, and configured to control operation of the pump device. The heat generation element directly contacts an outer plate of the housing not contacting the pump device, and does not contact an outer plate of the housing contacting the pump device.

Abstract: A slim fan includes a housing, an impeller, and a stator unit. The housing includes a bottom board. The bottom board includes an inner face and an outer face. The bottom board includes at least one receiving space located between the inner face and the outer face. An impeller is rotatably mounted in the housing. A stator unit is mounted in the housing. The stator unit includes a circuit board, a coil unit, and at least one electronic element. The coil unit and the at least one electronic element are mounted on the circuit board. The at least one electronic element extends into the at least one receiving space.

Abstract: A vertically shafted air moving device for circulating air includes a housing that defines an internal space. A shell is coupled to and extends from a top of the housing. The shell is meshed. The shell is configured to allow air to enter and exit the shell. A power module and a motor are coupled to the housing and are positioned in the internal space. The motor is operationally coupled to the power module. A shaft is coupled to and extends from the motor into the shell. Each of a plurality of blades is coupled to and extends from the shaft to proximate to an interior face of the shell. The motor is positioned to compel rotation of the shaft coincident with the blades. The blades are configured to circulate air in proximity to the shell.

Abstract: A blocking device coupled to a ventilator comprising: a frame extending from an air discharge port of a ventilator case having a fan which is rotated by a motor to suction inside air; an air passage formed by the frame to discharge the inside air to the outside therethrough; and a blocking plate mounted on a central shaft movably installed at the center of the frame. The blocking plate allows the inside air to be discharged when the blocking plate is pushed backward by the pressure of discharged air. When the fan does not rotate, the blocking plate and a blocking bump protruding from the inner surface of the frame are engaged with each other to block the air passage to prevent inner heat from being discharged and external air from being introduced.

Abstract: A blower assembly for advancing the flow of air in an air flow device at a selected one of a plurality of air flow rates is provided. The blower assembly includes a blower housing defining a body thereof and a wall of the blower housing moveably secured to the body, a blower wheel rotatably mounted to the blower housing and a motor for rotating the blower wheel at a selected one of a plurality of rotational speeds. The blower assembly further includes a motion device secured to the body and to the wall. The motion device moves the wall relative to the body to a selected one of a plurality of distinct wall positions. The motor rotates the blower wheel at a selected one of a plurality of rotational speeds. A controller calculates optimum wall position and rotational speed to provide for minimal energy usage rate.

Abstract: Provided are non-limiting embodiments of a wear-resistant impeller having a non-conventional blending provided between a surface of a vane and a surface of at least one of a front side shroud (15) and a rear side shroud (16). The impeller may comprise both a rear side blending gland a front side blending (2), and the front side blending (2) may comprise a different geometry from the rear side blending (3). The blending preferably comprises a bulbous geometry which is uniquely adapted for optimizing flow patterns adjacent to the vane and between the front and rear side shrouds in a manner which discourages the formation of horseshoe vortices proximate the leading edge (6) of the vane (1) during operation. Through the reduction, mitigation, or elimination of horseshoe vortices, local high velocities and turbulence are generally minimized, and wear experienced by portions of the impeller (e.g., to one or more vanes) from flows of abrasive slurry can be reduced.

Abstract: A fan impeller structure and a cooling fan thereof. The fan impeller structure consisting of a hub and a flow guide body. The hub has an extension section extending from outer circumference of the hub. The extension section has a first face and a second face. An axial center of the flow guide body is defined with an axial line. A fitting section outward extends from the axial line. A spoiler section is connected to the fitting section in a direction away from the axial line. The spoiler section is formed with multiple axial perforations that communicate with multiple radial perforations. The flow guide body is disposed on the first or second face of the extension section of the hub. The flow guide body is employed to replace the blades of conventional cooling fan. The perforations of the flow guide body can forcedly guide air in a narrow space.

Abstract: An impeller for a centrifugal fan includes a base plate, a ring-shaped shroud, a tubular inlet port connecting the circular inlet of the shroud and the base plate, and a plurality of blades annularly disposed around the tubular inlet port at regular intervals. Each of the blades includes a pressurized surface, a suction surface, a leading edge, and a trailing edge. When viewed in a direction parallel to the rotation axis of the impeller, a distance between the pressurized surface and the suction surface of each of the blades becomes increasingly larger starting from the leading edge of the pressurized surface and extending toward the trailing edge of each of the blades at a predetermined height.

Abstract: A fan wheel disc has at least one region that extends in a curved manner, at least in some sections, from radially inside to radially outside. A blade attachment surface is formed at least in some sections. The blade attachment fixedly connects an axial end side of at least one fan wheel blade. The blade attachment surface extends, at least in some sections, within the curved region of the fan wheel disc within a two-dimensional connecting plane.

Abstract: A cooling tower fan hub having a ring and a disc in which in which hollows and recesses are opened in the ring and/or in the disc in order to decrease fan natural frequencies and avoid excitation by the several kind of loads that affect a fan during operation. The number, size and shape of the hollows can be adjusted to tune the fan natural frequencies around the original value.

Abstract: A linear actuator for use with a fan with deployable fan blades to deploy the fan blades when in use and stow the fan blades when not in use. The linear actuator utilizes a drive element having a driver that moves linearly along a shaft of the linear actuator. Linear movement of the driver causes radial movement of arms connected to the linear actuator and the fan blades. Radial movement of the arms causes rotational movement of gears attached to the ends of the fan blades to cause the fan blades to rotate into the deployed or stowed configuration.

Abstract: A fan includes a central hub defining an inlet, a motor positioned within the central hub, and an impeller positioned within the central hub. The impeller is operable to be rotated by the motor to generate air movement. The fan also includes a nozzle defining a channel that receives the airflow from the central hub. The nozzle also defines an outlet in communication with the channel to direct air out of the nozzle. The fan further includes a plurality of conduits connecting the nozzle to the central hub to direct air from the central hub to the channel and through the outlet of the nozzle. The nozzle defines a projection aligned with each conduit to divide air movement through the nozzle.

Abstract: An integral motor pump module directs at least 90% of its rotor discharge over at least 50% of its motor housing surface, thereby cooling the motor with little or no need for a separate flow path. The discharge can flow through an annulus formed between the motor and pump housings, and can extend over substantially all of the sides and rear of the motor housing. The rotor can be fixed to a rotating shaft, or rotate about a fixed shaft, which can be threaded into the motor and/or module housing. A plurality of the modules can be combined into a multi-stage pump, with rotor speeds independently controlled by corresponding variable frequency drives. The motor can be a radial or axial permanent magnet or induction motor. A separate cooling flow can provide additional cooling e.g. when pumping heated process fluids. Embodiments include guide vanes and/or diffusers.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of controlling the position of a variable vane in a compressor and a kit for adding such apparatus to the compressor are disclosed. The vane is coupled to a unison ring, a cam is secured to a torque tube, a cam follower is secured to the unison ring. The cam follower is secured such that a wall of the cam follower is in contact with the cam. Rotation of the torque tube causes movement of the cam, and movement of the cam moves the cam follower, thereby moving the unison ring and the variable vane coupled thereto.

Abstract: A blower assembly includes a fan including a front plate that defines a fan inlet. The blower assembly also includes an inlet plate positioned adjacent the fan such that the inlet plate and the front plate define a cavity therebetween that extends circumferentially about the fan inlet. A motor is coupled to the fan and to the inlet plate and configured to rotate about the rotational axis. The motor is positioned within the cavity.

Abstract: A fan blade structure of a convection fan includes a fan blade body. The fan blade body includes a central disk secured to the rotating shaft of the motor and multiple blades evenly distributed in a circumferential direction of the central disk. The fan blade body further includes an outer edge frame, the outer edge frame is connected to an outmost side of each of the blades in a radial direction of the central disk. The outer edge frame is connected to an outmost side of the blade in the radial direction of the central disk through the outer edge frame, which makes all the outmost sides of all the blades secured to the outer edge frame, thus the stability of the blade is strengthened, blade deformation in harsh environments is avoided, thereby the balance performance of the fan blade is improved, and the vibration or noise is reduced.

Abstract: A propeller fan includes a boss on a rotation axis, and a blade at an outer circumferential portion of the boss. The blade includes a leading edge and a trailing edge. The blade includes a first area, a second area inward of the first area, and third areas outward of the second area. The third areas are located inward and outward of the first area, with the first area interposed between the third areas. The first area, the second area and the third areas each include at least one notch in the trailing edge. The notches satisfy the relationship “P1>P2>P3”, where P1 is the width of the notch in the first area, P2 is the width of the notch in the second area, and P3 is the width of the notch in each of the third areas.

Abstract: A damper assembly according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first housing adjacent to a second housing that supports a rotatable gas turbine engine component. The first housing defines first and second fluid passages. The first fluid passage is coupled to a first valve. One of the first and second housings defines first, second and third annular grooves that receive respective first, second and third seal members. The first and second housings define a first annular damper cavity between the first and second seal members and in fluid communication with the first fluid passage, and define a second annular damper cavity between the second and third seal members and in fluid communication with the second fluid passage.

Abstract: A segmented structural link may comprise a base portion having a first face, a tail portion, and a distal end having a second face. The tail portion may extend at an angle relative to the first face. The tail portion may comprise a first bend and may further comprise a second bend. The base portion may comprise at least one of a captured nut, a nut plate, or a self-clinching nut.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a bootstrap accumulator having multiple fluid expansion volumes each configured to receive fluid. The bootstrap accumulator also includes a piston assembly configured to move within the fluid expansion volumes based on pressures within the fluid expansion volumes. The piston assembly includes (i) a fluid pathway that couples the fluid expansion volumes and (ii) a bypass valve configured to selectively open or block the fluid pathway. The piston assembly could also include multiple pistons and a connecting rod coupling the pistons. The fluid pathway could include a narrower path through a first portion of the connecting rod and a wider path through a second portion of the connecting rod. The bypass valve could include a ball and a spring configured to push the ball to block the narrower path through the first portion of the connecting rod.

Abstract: A hydropneumatic piston accumulator, with an accumulator housing (1), which comprises a cylindrical tube (3) defining a longitudinal axis (11), wherein the cylindrical tube (3) is closed at both ends by a housing cover (5, 7) at each end and wherein a piston (9) is longitudinally movable in the cylindrical tube (3) and, in the housing, separates a working chamber (13) for a compressible medium, such as a working gas, from a working chamber for an incompressible medium, such as hydraulic fluid, and with a displacement measuring device for determining the position of the piston (9) in the housing in a contact-free manner.

Abstract: A hydraulic pressure amplifier arrangement (1) is described comprising a supply port (A1), a pressure outlet (A2) connected to the supply port via check valve means (3), an intensifier section (5) having a high pressure piston (6) in a high pressure cylinder (7), a low pressure piston (8) in a low pressure cylinder (9) and connected to the high pressure piston (6), and a control valve (12) controlling a pressure in the low pressure cylinder (9), wherein the control valve (12) comprises a hydraulically actuated valve element (13). Such a pressure amplifier arrangement should have a good operational behavior in a cost effective manner. To this end the control valve (12) comprises spring means 16 acting on the valve element (1) in a direction towards a starting position of the control valve.

Abstract: A steering gear includes a housing defining a chamber. A piston divides the chamber into first and second chamber portions. The piston is moveable along a linear axis relative to the housing upon pressurization of fluid in one of the first and second chamber portions. A pressure relief vents pressurized fluid from one of the first and second chamber portions to one other of the first and second chamber portions upon movement of the piston to a predetermined position. The pressure relief assembly includes a first valve at a first end of the pressure relief assembly and a second valve at a second end of the pressure relief assembly. The pressure relief assembly is axially movable relative to the piston to adjust the position of the first valve and the second valve relative to the piston.

Abstract: A valve apparatus for influencing a flow of medium between a supply port (38) and a pressure port (40), having a valve device (10) which, in at least one closed position, blocks the connection between the supply port (38) and the pressure port (40) and which opens this connection in at least one opened position, in which the pressure port (40) is connected to at least one of two medium chambers (62, 80) by a respective fluid channel (64, 82), of which one (64) consists of a fluid duct (68) in the valve slider (22), is characterized in that the other fluid channel (82) has at least one further fluid duct (84) which is separate from the first fluid duct (68) and which, at least in one of the opened positions of the valve slider (22), opens at one end (92) into the medium chamber (80) and which, in every displacement position of the valve slider (22), is permanently connected at the other end (94) to the pressure port (40).

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for treating blood, which includes a single cassette capable of carrying out the various CRRT treatments.