Having Condition Responsive Pumped Fluid Control Patents (Class 417/213)
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Patent number: 8251683Abstract: A variable capacity rotary compressor includes a rolling piston eccentrically rotated in the compression space of the cylinder assembly, and a vane coming in contact with the rolling piston. A vane restricting device restricts the vane by applying a pressure onto a side face of the vane, where a sectional area A of a passage through which the restriction pressure is applied to the side face of the vane is formed so as not to be larger than a vane area B of the vane to which the restriction pressure is applied through a passage. The passage includes a first passage for connecting an inner space of the casing to a vane slot which is provided in the cylinder assembly and has the vane slidably inserted therein, and a second passage for connecting the vane slot to an inlet which is connected to the suction chamber of the cylinder assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sang-Myung Byun, Jeong-Min Han
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Patent number: 8234875Abstract: A fuel system for a turbine engine is provided. The fuel system includes a positive displacement pump driven by an electric motor. The pump is rotated in a first direction to deliver fuel to the turbine engine, and a second direction for evacuating fuel from the turbine engine. A shut-off check valve is open in a first direction in response to a first differential pressure created by the pump in the first direction. The shut-off check valve is biased to a closed position when the pump is rotating in the second direction. An ecology check valve is biased to a closed position in the first direction and open in the second direction in response to a second differential pressure created by the pump. The check valves open and close automatically in response to the pressures generated by the positive displacement pump in each of the first and second rotational directions. In this manner, simple, reliable valves are utilized to regulate the flow of fuel in the fuel system.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Charles H. Falke, Leo J. Veilleux, Douglas A. Parsons
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Patent number: 8231360Abstract: A hydrostatic pump (1) has a mechanical displacement volume control with a mechanical control element (4), which for generation of an actuator pressure that acts on a positioning piston (5) which is functionally connected with a displacement setting device (3), has a position-controlled control valve (6) functionally connected with a control lever (30) and with the displacement setting device (3) of the pump (1). A pump with a mechanical displacement volume control with a pressure limiting function can be accomplished by mechanically decoupling the control lever (30) from the displacement setting device (3) whereby a pressure cutoff function is provided, with which, by respective pilot valves (21a, 21b), a pressure signal can be generated from a delivery line (2a, 2b) of the pump (1), which signal is transmitted via the control valve (6) to the positioning piston (5) and counteracts the control pressure.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Linde Material Handling GmbHInventors: Martin Steigerwald, Burkhard Sturmer
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Patent number: 8231361Abstract: A hydrostatic pump (1) with a variable displacement volume can be operated in a closed circuit and is driven by a drive engine (2), in particular by an internal combustion engine. To control the displacement of the pump (1), a control device (4) is provided which can be actuated as a function of the speed-dependent control pressure which is a function of the speed of the drive engine (2). To improve the control characteristics of the pump, a switchover device (35) is provided, by which the pump (1) can be switched between a speed-dependent displacement control by the speed-dependent control pressure and a volume flow-dependent delivery control, in which the control device (4) of the pump (1) can be controlled as a function of the actuation of an actuator mechanism (28).Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Linde Material Handling GmbHInventors: Martin Steigerwald, Burkhard Sturmer
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Patent number: 8202068Abstract: A capacity varying device for a scroll compressor may include a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll both located in a casing, a low pressure passage formed by an orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll that communicates with a suction side, an intermediate pressure passage formed by the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll that communicates with an intermediate pressure side, a rotating device rotatably coupled to the fixed scroll and having a connection passage therein, and an operating device mounted at the fixed scroll and configured to rotate the rotating device such that the low pressure passage and the intermediate pressure passage are connected to each other or disconnected from each other via the connection passage of the rotating device. Accordingly, a capacity for compressing gas may be varied, a size of the device may be reduced due to a compact configuration and structure for varying the capacity, and also a fast response to the varying of the capacity may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myung-Kyun Kiem, Seong-Weong Hwang
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Patent number: 8202061Abstract: A pump system includes pump having a control feature which, responsive to a supply of pressurized working fluid, reduces the pressure of the working fluid pressurized by the pump. The control feature is connected to the output of the pump by a regulating valve. The control feature receives pressurized working fluid to decrease the output of the pump in response to the pressure of the supplied working fluid. A regulating valve selectively connects the pressurized working fluid to the control feature. The regulating valve has a control port to receive pressurized working fluid from the pump to urge the valve to a closed position against a biasing force. A controllable valve is operable to interrupt the supply of pressurized working fluid to control port to alter the output pressure of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Magna Powertrain Inc.Inventors: David R. Shulver, Matthew Williamson, Adrian C. Cioc
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Patent number: 8202060Abstract: A compressor having a high pressure slide valve assembly is disclosed. The slide valve assembly includes: a volume slide valve mechanism, the mechanism slidably movable to control compressor volume ratio and power input to the compressor. The assembly also includes a capacity slide valve mechanism that is in operational association with the volume slide valve mechanism, the capacity slide valve mechanism slidably movable to control compressor capacity. At least one of the volume slide valve mechanism and the capacity slide valve mechanism includes at least one groove or channel, and the at least one groove or channel provides for lubrication to ensure relative movement between the slide mechanisms in a high pressure environment. A method of controlling compressor volume ratio, power input and capacity in a compressor operating in a high pressure environment is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Vilter Manufactring LLCInventor: Jean Louis Picouet
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Publication number: 20120134854Abstract: A differential pressure control valve has a valve seat made of magnetic material, a valve body having a lid made of magnetic material, and a guiding member. Fluid passes through a valve hole formed in the seat. The body on the downstream side of the seat separates from or is seated on the seat in accordance with the pressure difference between the upstream and downstream sides to selectively open and close the hole. The guiding member fixed to the seat guides the body. The lid is seated on the seat to close the hole. A guided member is made of nonmagnetic material. One of the seat and the lid has a permanent magnet. The body is urged in the direction approaching the seat by the force of the magnet located at a position outside the area where the body is seated on the seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Nobuaki Hoshino, Masaki Ota, Yoshio Kimoto, Toru Onishi, Yusuke Yamazaki
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Patent number: 8186979Abstract: A capacity varying type rotary compressor and a refrigeration system having the same are provided. The capacity varying type rotary compressor includes a casing that contains a certain amount of oil and maintains a discharge pressure state; a motor installed in the casing that generates a driving force; one or more cylinder assembly fixed in the casing, having a compression space that compresses a refrigerant by a rolling piston that performs an orbit motion and a vane that performs a linear motion by contacting the rolling piston, and having a vane pressure chamber formed at a rear side of the vane that implements a normal driving as the vane contacts the rolling piston or a saving driving as the vane is separated from the rolling piston; and a mode switching device that selectively supplies a suction pressure or a discharge pressure to the vane pressure chamber of the cylinder assembly according to a driving mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sang-Myung Byun, Seoung-Yeon Cho, Seong-Jae Hong, Jung Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 8186969Abstract: A variable displacement pump includes: a pump section arranged to be driven by an internal combustion engine, and to discharge a lubricant introduced from an induction portion to a plurality of hydraulic chambers, through a discharge portion, by volume variations of the hydraulic chambers; a variable mechanism arranged to move a movable member by using the discharge pressure of the lubricant, and to vary volumes of the hydraulic chambers which are opened to the discharge portion; and an urging section arranged to urge the movable member in a direction to increase quantities of the volume variations of the hydraulic chambers, the urging section having a spring constant which increases as a movement distance of the movable member in a direction to decrease the quantities of the volume variations of the hydraulic chambers increases.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Morita, Yasushi Watanabe, Koji Saga
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Patent number: 8177522Abstract: A mode changing apparatus for a scroll compressor is provided that may include a low-pressure passage that communicates with a suction side formed by an orbiting motion of an orbiting scroll, an intermediate-pressure passage that communicates with an intermediate-pressure side formed by the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll, a block assembly mounted at the fixed scroll and having a connection channel that connects the low-pressure passage and the intermediate-pressure passage, a switching device disposed at the block assembly that opens/closes the connection channel, and a pressure supply device that selectively applies, to the block assembly, a discharge gas pressure discharged from the fixed and orbiting scrolls and a suction gas pressure sucked into the fixed and orbiting scrolls, to thereby operate the switching device. With such a simplified structure, the gas compression capacity of a scroll compressor may be varied, enhancing energy efficiency of a system.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myung-Kyun Kiem, Seon-Woong Hwang
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Patent number: 8172551Abstract: A pump arrangement and method of regulating pressure of a pump arrangement are provided. The pump arrangement includes an actuation pump, a pressure regulating valve, and a control valve. The actuation pump has an actuation pump outlet providing an actuation pump discharge flow. The actuation pump discharge flow is piped to opposite sides of a regulator valve member that selectively adjusts an amount of fluid that is bled from the actuation pump outlet such that the actuation pump outlet pressure is used to regulate the actuation pump discharge pressure. The actuation pump discharge flow is separated into first and second portions to provide opposing forces on the regulator valve member. The control valve is operably interposed between the actuation pump outlet and the valve member to selectively adjusts the amount of biasing applied by the second portion of the actuation pump discharge flow on the regulator valve member.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Woodward, Inc.Inventor: Carthel C. Baker
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Publication number: 20120076670Abstract: In a method of operating a fluid-working machine, the volume of working fluid displaced during each cycle of working chamber volume is selected taking into account the availability of other working chambers. The status of each working chamber is monitored and a working chamber treated as unavailable if it is found to be malfunctioning. A working chamber may be treated as unavailable if it is allocated to an alternative working function. A fault may be detected in a working chamber by determining whether a measured output parameter of the fluid working machine fulfils at least one acceptable function criterion taking into account the previously selected net displacement of working fluid by a working chamber during a cycle of working chamber volume to carry out the working function.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: ARTEMIS INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventors: William Hugh Salvin Rampen, Niall James Caldwell, Stephen Michael Laird
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Patent number: 8136508Abstract: A pump for a combustion engine is disclosed. The pump may have at least one pumping member movable through a plurality of displacement strokes during a single engine cycle. The pump may also have a controller in communication with the pumping member. The controller may be configured to selectively reduce an amount of fluid displaced during at least one, but less than all of the plurality of displacement strokes. The reduction may be initiated in response to a demand for the displaced fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: David Norman Eddy
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Publication number: 20120057991Abstract: In a method of detecting a fault in a fluid-working machine including a plurality of working chambers of cyclically varying volume, each working chamber is operable to displace a volume of working fluid which is selectable for each cycle of working chamber volume to carry out a working function responsive to a received demand signal. An output parameter of the fluid working machine, which is responsive to the displacement of working fluid by one or more of the working chambers to carry out the working function, is measured. It is determined whether the measured output parameter fulfils at least one acceptable function criterion, taking into account the previously selected net displacement of working fluid by a working chamber during a cycle of working chamber volume to carry out the working function.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: ARTEMIS INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventors: William Hugh Salvin Rampen, Niall James Caldwell, Michael Richard Fielding, Stephen Michael Laird, Uwe Bernhard Pascal Stein, John Tearlach Campbell
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Publication number: 20120011839Abstract: An auxiliary hydraulic power generation system includes a first spool including a turbine. A fan is coupled to the first spool, the fan operable to drive the first spool in a windmill condition in which the turbine fails to provide rotational drive to the fan. An auxiliary variable displacement hydraulic pump is selectively driven by the first spool in the windmill condition to augment a hydraulic power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Magdy A. Kandil, David L. Jacques
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Publication number: 20110286862Abstract: A pump is provided for a lubricating system of a combustion engine that includes, but is not limited to a housing and a lid that together define a pump hollow space in which a pump mechanism for the pumping of lubricant of the lubricating system is arranged. The pump hollow space includes, but is not limited to at least one intake opening and at least one discharge opening. The pump additionally includes, but is not limited to a regulating valve for regulating a flow of the lubricant through the pump, which is integrated in the lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Georg ZWICKLER
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Publication number: 20110268588Abstract: Discharge energy of a rotation motor RM and a boom cylinder BC are used as an assist force for an electric motor MG. An assist motor AM and a sub pump SP driven by output of the electric motor MG are integrally rotated on the discharge side of main pumps MP1, MP2. The assist motor AM is rotated by the discharge energy of the rotation motor RM and the boom cylinder BC, and the driving force of the assist motor AM is used to assist the output of the electric motor MG.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Inventors: Haruhiko Kawasaki, Masahiro Egawa
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Publication number: 20110268587Abstract: A pump control assembly includes a fluid pump assembly having a fluid pump and a load sensing valve. The fluid pump includes a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The fluid pump includes a variable displacement mechanism. The load sensing valve is adapted to adjust the position of the variable displacement mechanism. The load sensing valve includes a first end and an oppositely disposed second end. An actuator is in fluid communication with the fluid pump assembly. A position sensor monitors the position of the actuator. A ramping valve provides selective fluid communication between the fluid outlet of the fluid pump and the first end of the load sensing valve. An electronic control unit is in electrical communication with the position sensor and the ramping valve. The electronic control unit transmits an output current to the ramping valve in response to the position of the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2010Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: Eaton CorporationInventor: Philip J. Dybing
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Publication number: 20110262286Abstract: A suction device comprises a first element, a second element, and an intermediate element. The first element comprises a first control volume having a first pressure. The second element comprises a second control volume having a second pressure. The intermediate element is controlled by the first pressure of the first control volume of the first element and the second pressure of the second control volume of the second element. When the first control volume of the first element is varied, the varied first control volume of the first element can substantially have the first pressure under automatic pressure compensation by the second pressure of the second control volume of the second element via the intermediate element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Bin-Ru She, Yeou-Bin Guu, Yu-Mei Chen
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Publication number: 20110256000Abstract: A backup system is provided that has a local electric motor and pump for some or all of hydraulic actuators. A local backup hydraulic actuator has two power sources, hydraulic as primary and electrical as backup. During normal operation, the hydraulic actuator receives pressurized fluid from a hydraulic system and the fluid flow to the chambers is controlled by a servo valve. If the hydraulic system fails, the electronic controller detects the failure by observing the signal indicative of the pressure from the pressure sensor, and the controller powers the local hydraulic pump to provide high pressure hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator via the servo valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2010Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi Fukui
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Patent number: 8015964Abstract: A pump for a combustion engine is disclosed. The pump may have at least one pumping member movable through a plurality of displacement strokes during a single engine cycle. The pump may also have a controller in communication with the pumping member. The controller may be configured to selectively reduce an amount of fluid displaced during at least one, but less than all of the plurality of displacement strokes. The reduction may be initiated in response to a demand for the displaced fluid.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Inventor: David Norman Eddy
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Patent number: 7985054Abstract: In a multicylindrical rotary compressor constituted to be usable by urging an only first vane with respect to a first roller by means of a spring member to switch a first operation mode in which first and second rotary compression elements perform compression works and a second operation mode in which substantially the only first rotary compression element performs the compression work, an object is to reduce generation of collision noises due to collision of the second vane with the second roller at a time when the first operation mode is switched to the second operation mode, and a pressure in a back-pressure chamber of the second vane is discharged on a low-pressure chamber side in a second cylinder in a case where the first operation mode is switched to the second operation mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Masayuki Hara, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Akira Hashimoto
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Patent number: 7976287Abstract: A capacity variable type twin rotary compressor may include a casing, a motor, a first cylinder having a first compression space, a second cylinder fixed to one side of the first cylinder and having a second compression space, first and second intakes respectively formed in the first and second cylinders and each connected to a gas intake pipe, first and second vane slits respectively formed in the first and second intakes first and second rolling pistons eccentrically coupled to the motor and respectively housed in the first and second compression spaces, first and second vanes slidingly received in the first and second vane slits, respectively, an expansion groove formed at the second vane slit separate from the inner space of the casing, and refrigerant switching valves that allow refrigerant of intake and discharge pressures to be supplied into the second compression space and the expansion groove, such that the second vane contacts the second rolling piston to perform a power driving or separates therefrType: GrantFiled: August 9, 2005Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seon-Woong Hwang, Seong-Jae Hong, Kyoung-Jun Park, Jin-Kook Kim, Ji-Young Bae
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Publication number: 20110142688Abstract: The invention relates to a pumping device including a pump (1) comprising—a pumping chamber (11) having a variable volume,—an inlet (2) communicating with the pumping chamber (11) and comprising a valve,—an outlet (5) communicating with the pumping chamber and comprising a valve,—an actuator adapted to change the volume of the pumping chamber,—a fluidic pathway comprising said inlet (2), said pumping chamber (11), said outlet (5) and a downstream line (7) situated downstream of the outlet valve,—a pressure sensor (4) for measuring the pressure between the valves of said pathway,—processing means for processing the received pressure data from the pressure sensor (4). The invention also covers a method for detecting a dysfunction in a pumping device as defined above.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2008Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Eric Chappel, Niklaus Schneeberger, Frederic Neftel
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Patent number: 7955062Abstract: A vane pump for pumping hydraulic fluid wherein fluid at a pressure intermediate the inlet pressure and the outlet pressure of the pump is supplied to under vane passages of the vanes located in and passing through the rise region of the pump. This assists in preventing damage to the vanes caused by driving the vanes through the protective coating of oil on the wall of the pump chamber when the vanes are travelling through an inlet region of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2006Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Inventor: Norman Ian Mathers
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Publication number: 20110129361Abstract: A compressor capacity control method and a device is provided. The changeover from a loading state regarding the compressor to an unloading state regarding the compressor and vice versa is controlled, whereby, during a time span from a starting time point when the compressor operation state changes into an unloading state to a time point when a loading/unloading operation-cycle is finished and a predetermined time duration has passed after the starting time point, the time cycle control is performed so that the loading state is changed into the unloading state, at a time point when the predetermined time duration has passed. Further, the discharge pressure of the fluid discharged from the compressor is detected so that the loading state is changed into the unloading state in a case where the discharge pressure exceeds a prescribed upper limit pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: C/O ANEST IWATA CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuaki SATO
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Publication number: 20110123354Abstract: A fluid-working machine has a plurality of working chambers, e.g., cylinders, of cyclically changing volume, a high-pressure fluid manifold and a low-pressure fluid manifold, at least one valve linking each working chamber to each manifold, and electronic sequencing means for operating said valves in timed relationship with the changing volume of each chamber, wherein the electronic sequencing means is arranged to operate the valves of each chamber in one of an idling mode, a partial mode in which only part of the usable volume of the chamber is used, and a full mode in which all of the usable volume of the chamber is used, and the electronic sequencing means is arranged to select the mode of each chamber on successive cycles so as to infinitely vary the time averaged effective flow rate of fluid through the machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2011Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: ARTEMIS INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventors: Uwe Bernhard Pascal Stein, Niall James Caldwell, William Hugh Salvin Rampen, Jonathan Paul Almond
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Publication number: 20110116938Abstract: In a method for controlling a high-pressure fuel pump, which comprises an electrically controllable electromechanical inlet valve (2a) which is closed in the currentless state and is held in the closed state by the force of a spring (2b), an outlet valve (5a), and a displacement element (6), the inlet valve is operated in a self-controlling operating mode after a start command is present. In the self-controlling operating mode, the rail pressure is built without knowledge of the phase position of the displacement element. During the self-controlling operating mode, the phase position of the displacement element is determined. After the phase position of the piston or displacement element is determined, the inlet valve is switched over to a non-self-controlling operating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventors: Uwe Jung, Janos Radeczky, Michael Wirkowski
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Publication number: 20110103977Abstract: Control process for a piezoelectric pump (100) of an electric household appliance comprising a pump chamber (110) equipped with a mobile wall (111) displaceable under the action of a piezoelectric actuator (111A), characterized in that during a startup phase of the pump (100), the piezoelectric actuator (111A) is supplied during a plurality of alternations with an alternating supply signal having a voltage U bringing about a substantial deformation of the piezoelectric actuator (111A) for a maximum sweeping of the volume of the pump chamber (110) by the mobile wall (111), and further characterized in that the pump startup phase is followed by a normal operation phase during which the supply signal is modified so that the mean flow rate provided by the pump (100) is less than the flow rate provided during the startup phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: SEB S.A.Inventors: Franck Mandica, Bertrand Couet, Serge Cubizolles, Olivier Lavillat
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Publication number: 20110085921Abstract: In a hydraulic pressure circuit including an introduction section through which oil is introduced, a main passage section installed at a downstream side of the introduction section to be communicated with a supply section through which oil is supplied to each of slide sections of an internal combustion engine, a branch passage branched from the main passage section to supply oil to a hydraulic pressure actuator, and a control valve having a valve body which is moved in accordance with a pressure of an upstream side thereof, and a variable capacitance pump configured to drain oil to the introduction section, the variable capacitance pump is configured to vary a drained flow quantity in accordance with the drained pressure of oil and a pressure under which the oil drained flow quantity is started to be varied is higher than a pressure under which the valve body is started to move.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki KATO, Yoshinori Ichinosawa, Yasushi Watanabe, Hideaki Ohnishi
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Publication number: 20110076161Abstract: A displacement control system (B) for a variable displacement compressor has an electromagnetic clutch (200), a displacement control valve (300) including a valve body (306) that is applied with pressure of a suction pressure region of a variable displacement compressor (100) and an electromagnetic force of a solenoid unit in an opposite direction to the pressure of a discharge pressure region, and biasing means that biases the valve body (306) in the same direction as the electromagnetic force, and means (453, 454, 405) for adjusting current, which adjusts current supplied to a displacement control valve coil (316) according to external information detected by external-information detecting means (403, 451, 452).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventor: Yukihiko Taguchi
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Publication number: 20110076160Abstract: A control device for a hydraulic piston machine with a variable flow rate averaged over time has a plurality of pistons each defining a working chamber with a changeable value and connectable to high-pressure and low-pressure line via first and second valves actuable in an electric fashion, and an electronic control unit operating the valves in several modes, so that the valves can be operatable only in the partial stroke mode, or in the partial stroke mode and in the idle stroke mode, or in the partial stroke mode and in the full stroke mode, or in the way that all three modes are used on a limited number of working chambers and only the idle stroke and the full stroke modes are used on the remaining working chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventors: Bernd Schroeder, David Breuer, Joachim Schmitt, Michael Gaumnitz, Thomas Kunze, Georg Jacobs
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Patent number: 7891955Abstract: A compressor having a dual slide valve assembly is disclosed. The slide valve assembly includes: i) a volume slide valve mechanism that is slidably movable to control compressor volume ratio and power input to the compressor; and ii) a capacity and volume slide valve mechanism that is in operational association with the volume slide valve mechanism, and the capacity and volume slide valve mechanism is slidably movable to control compressor capacity and to control volume ratio and power input to the compressor. In at least some embodiments, the compressor is a rotary gas compressor for a compression (e.g., refrigeration) system. A method of increasing compressor efficiency using the dual slide valve assembly is also disclosed. Compressor volume load and/or volume ratio and/or compressor power input can be simultaneously controlled by both the volume slide mechanism and the capacity and volume slide mechanism. Advantageously, compressor efficiency is increased.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Inventor: Jean Louis Picouet
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Patent number: 7887302Abstract: A variable flow pump includes: a housing with inlet and outlet chambers interconnected by a main bore and a non-rotating cylinder block positioned in the main bore. The cylinder block includes: a central bore communicating with the inlet chamber; cylinder bores arrayed around the central bore; first feed passages interconnecting the inlet chamber and the cylinder bores, defining a bypass flowpath between the cylinder bores; and at least one discharge valve disposed at the second end which permits fluid flow from the cylinder bores to the discharge chamber but prevents opposite flow; Pistons are disposed in the bores. A shaft is coupled to the pistons so as to cause them to reciprocate through an axial pump stroke when the shaft is rotated. A mechanism is coupled to the cylinder block which modulates the axial position of the cylinder block within the housing, varying the size of the bypass flowpath.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Walter Decania Hutto, Jr.
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Publication number: 20110020146Abstract: The system includes: a variable displacement hydraulic pump supplying pressure oil to a hydraulic actuator; a pressure detector detecting a pump discharge pressure from the hydraulic pump; a control valve controlling a supply of the pressure oil to the hydraulic actuator; a controller controlling a pump displacement of the hydraulic pump; a hydraulic motor rotating an upper structure of the construction machine; a swing relief valve defining a relief pressure of the hydraulic motor; and a control lever switching a control valve for the hydraulic motor. The controller includes: an adjuster that, when a pump discharge pressure detected by the pressure detector exceeds a first set value, conducts an adjustment to reduce the pump displacement; and a canceller that cancels the adjustment when the pump discharge pressure falls below a second set value. The second set value is equal to or larger than the first set value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventors: Teruo Akiyama, Hisashi Asada, Jin Kitajima, Kazuhiro Maruta, Takeshi Ooi, Masashi Ichihara
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Patent number: 7861582Abstract: In a flow rate estimation method of a blood pump, a general flow rate estimation formula which includes a correction term is formed based on a plurality of blood pumps. Measured data obtained from an objective blood pump implanted inside a patient is substituted into the correction term, thus forming a flow rate estimation formula of the objective blood pump. The flow rate Q of the objective blood pump is estimated based on the flow rate estimation formula and the values of the rotational speed N and the consumption current I of the motor of the objective blood pump, and the attribute data Z of the blood of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Sun Medical Technology Research CorporationInventors: Takayuki Miyakoshi, Kenji Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20100322787Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic clutch for a water pump which is able to break the transmission of drive force between a pulley and a water pump drive shaft in accordance with the temperature of the cooling water in an engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: GMB KOREA CORP.Inventors: Jung Il Suh, Myung Jin Woo, Cho Won Kim
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Publication number: 20100303643Abstract: A fan drive system for driving an engine cooling fan mounted in a working machine is described. The fan drive system includes a variable displacement pump that supplies oil to an actuator and is also used as a hydraulic pump for the hydraulic motor that drives the cooling fan. A pump displacement of a variable displacement pump can be controlled in accordance with the load of the working machine, and when a load is not generated in the working machine, the pump displacement of the variable displacement pump can be controlled in accordance with a load pressure of a hydraulic motor which drives a cooling fan. Examples of such working machines include a forklift, a skid steer loader (SSL) and a crawler dump.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2007Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventors: Toyomi Kataoka, Junichi Fukushima, Kazuhiro Maruta, Naoki Ishizaki
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Patent number: 7841839Abstract: A variable displacement compressor includes a housing assembly. A displacement control structure for the variable displacement compressor includes a passage forming member, a flat partition and a displacement control valve. The passage forming member is connected to an exterior surface of the housing assembly for forming a refrigerant passage for allowing the refrigerant to be discharged out from the compressor to an external refrigerant circuit. The flat partition is interposed between the passage forming member and the housing assembly. A throttle penetrates through the partition, which divides the refrigerant passage into an upstream passage and a downstream passage. The displacement control valve is provided in the passage forming member. The displacement control valve senses pressure of refrigerant in the upstream passage and pressure of the refrigerant in the downstream passage to control flow rate of the refrigerant flowing through a supply passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Yoshinori Inoue, Atsuhiro Suzuki, Hiroyuki Nakaima
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Patent number: 7841838Abstract: A rotary closed type compressor is configured such that an inside of a case becomes high pressure, and the rotary closed type compressor comprises a first cylinder and a second cylinder having cylinder chambers in which eccentric rollers are housed, respectively, vanes which divide the cylinder chamber into two sections, respectively, and vane chambers in which back-face side end portions of the vanes are housed, respectively. The vane on the first cylinder side is pressed and biased by a spring member provided in the vane chamber, and the vane on the second cylinder side is pressed and biased according to pressure difference between case internal pressure introduced to the vane chamber and suction pressure or discharge pressure introduced to the cylinder chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2005Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Toshiba Carrier CorporationInventors: Isao Kawabe, Kazuo Mochizuki, Shoichiro Kitaichi, Koji Hirano, Izumi Onoda, Kazu Takashima
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Patent number: 7824160Abstract: A scroll back pressure chamber in a scroll compressor is composed of a space 111 filled with suction pressure (or intermediate pressure) and a space filled with discharge pressure, and the summation of the suction pressure (or the intermediate pressure) and the discharge pressure presses one of scrolls against the other of the scrolls. An injection hole, through which refrigerant in gas state or refrigerant in liquid state is injected into a compression chamber of the scroll compressor, is provided on a fixed scroll, and the gas refrigerant injection or the liquid refrigerant injection is selected and carried out according to an operating pressure ratio.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Nakamura, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Shuji Hasegawa, Kenji Tojo
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Publication number: 20100269799Abstract: A supercharged compressor and method of operating the compressor supplies a commercial vehicle with compressed air. The compressor includes a piston chamber, a dead space or clearance volume and a valve unit for switching the clearance volume. The valve element is configured such that the air volume supplied by the supercharged compressor can be reduced to a value that is different from zero by activating the clearance volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventor: Joerg MELLAR
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Publication number: 20100260619Abstract: A displacement control system (A) of a variable displacement compressor comprises a target pressure setting means (402A) setting a target for pressure in an intake chamber or a crank chamber, on the basis of evaporator-outlet air temperature detected by an evaporator-outlet air temperature detection means (510) and a target for evaporator-outlet air temperature set by an evaporator-outlet target air temperature setting means (512), a discharge pressure detection means (500) detecting the pressure of a refrigerant in a high-pressure section, and a current regulation means (404, 406) regulating current supplied to a solenoid (316) of a displacement control valve, on the basis of the pressure of the refrigerant in the high-pressure section detected by the discharge pressure detection means (500) and the target for pressure set by the target pressure setting means (402A).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Inventors: Yukihiko Taguchi, Yoshihiro Ochiai
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Publication number: 20100254828Abstract: A system for controlling fluid flow rates in a transmission includes a pump having variable displacement and providing a pressurized fluid source, a regulating valve communicating with the fluid source and a pressure sensor, the pressure sensor producing a variable control signal whose magnitude represents a degree to which fluid flow requirements of the transmission are being provided by the fluid source, and an actuating valve producing a pressure that changes the pump displacement in response to the magnitude of the control pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2009Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventor: Steve A. Frait
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Patent number: 7806666Abstract: A displacement control valve (32) is connected to a variable displacement compressor. An open passage (53) in which a refrigerant gas flows is formed within a rod (31) and a valve body (30) of the displacement control valve (32). Further, an inner circumferential surface of a valve chamber (36) is formed as a guide portion (40) for moving the valve body (30) along an axis (L1) of the valve chamber (36). A valve portion (30a) of the valve body (30) is formed in a circular arc cross sectional shape along a surface of a sphere (K) in which an intermediate point of a length of the guide portion (40) along the axis (L1) of the valve chamber (36) is set to a center (N) on the axis (L1), and a distance from the center (N) to a contact point between a valve seat (36a) and the valve portion (30a) is set to a radius (r).Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Eagle Industry Co. Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Umemura, Yuji Hashimoto, Tatsuya Hirose, Kazutaka Oda, Masataka Taniue, Ryosuke Cho, Keigo Shirafuji, Toshiaki Iwa
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Patent number: 7798282Abstract: A hybrid electrical power assist system (EPAS) for an automotive vehicle that utilizes the advantages of a conventional EPAS system to provide power assist based upon several distinct sensor inputs, in a heavy duty vehicle that requires significantly more assistance forces than a conventional EPAS can provide. The hybrid system utilizes a hydraulic amplifier that is connected to receive the torque output from an EPAS motor actuator and responsively provide a fluid under differential pressure through a pair of high pressure lines to a steering piston.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: John C. Crossman
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Patent number: 7785083Abstract: The dynamic fluid device has a first pumping arrangement and second pumping arrangement arranged in parallel with each other to pump a pressurized fluid to user devices; at least a distributor member interposed amongst the first pumping arrangement, second pumping arrangement and the user devices and connected to them with connection arrangements, the at least a distributor member being arranged to connect singly and/or jointly and/or according to predetermined sequences, the first pumping arrangement and/or the second pumping arrangement to the user devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Studio Tecnico 6M S.R.L.Inventors: Eronne Mamei, Omer Mamei, Enrico Mamei
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Patent number: 7775782Abstract: A variable capacity rotary compressor capable of reducing collision noise of a vane with a roller. The variable capacity rotary compressor includes a vane controller controlling the operation of a vane in order to vary compression capacity. The vane controller includes a control valve that switches a fluid channel so as to selectively apply discharge pressure and intake pressure to the vane guide slot, a connection channel that connects the control valve with the vane guide slot, a high-pressure channel that connects the control valve with a discharge side of the compressor, and a low-pressure channel that connects the control valve with an intake side of the compressor, and a throttle section that reduces the fluid channel of at least one of the high-pressure channel and the connection channel in order to reduce an initial discharge pressure applied to the vane guide slot.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji Hoon Choi, Jeong Il Park, Jeong Hoon Kang, Phil Soo Chang, Kyung Rae Cho, Jin Kyu Choi, Hyeong Joon Seo, In Ju Lee
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Patent number: 7762788Abstract: A fluid conveyance system includes: a fluid conveyance device including a micro pump module which compresses a flexible tube communicating with a fluid containing receptacle and discharges a fluid, a memory device furnished on the micro pump module which stores individual identification data of the micro pump module, and a power source; a discharge data processing device which stores basic data for driving the fluid conveyance device; and a communication device having a communication unit which interconnects the fluid conveyance device and the discharge data processing device, wherein the discharge data processing device inputs discharge data, for discharging a desired discharge amount of a fluid, calculated from the identification data and the basic data read via the communication device, into the memory device via the communication device, and the fluid conveyance device is driven based on the discharge data.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hajime Miyazaki, Kazuo Kawasumi