Abstract: A system comprises a first piston comprising a first piston shaft and a first drive pin. A first piston cylinder comprises a first body and a first groove, wherein the first groove defines a first aperture, the first aperture oriented axially along the first body and configured to receive the first drive pin. The first body encloses the first piston and allows the first piston to travel axially within the first piston cylinder. A drive shaft comprises an axis, a drive groove, and a surface, wherein the drive groove forms a continuous channel along the surface and receives the first drive pin. In one embodiment, a first distribution wheel comprises a first face, a second face, a first inlet aperture, and a first outlet aperture. The first distribution wheel couples to the first piston cylinder and to the drive shaft at a first end of the drive shaft, and rotates axially with the drive shaft along the axis of the drive shaft.

Abstract: A co-axial crankless engine (1) having at least one cylinder (3) defining a longitudinally extending axis (XX). A pair of pistons (5, 6) are positioned to reciprocate in opposite directions along the longitudinal axis of the cylinder. A space (7) between the pistons defines a common combustion chamber (70). A first shaft (10) is positioned substantially parallel to and spaced laterally from the longitudinal axis of the cylinder. A second shaft (12) is positioned substantially parallel to and spaced laterally from the longitudinal axis of the cylinder. The second shaft (12) has a longitudinally extending bore (14) through which the first shaft can extend and rotate. Each piston is connected to an axially spaced cam (16, 17). A first cam being supported by the first shaft, a second cam being supported by the second shaft. In use, reciprocation of the pistons imparts on respective shafts rotating motion in opposite directions to drive the engine.

Abstract: A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a cam, a cylinder block, pistons, a thrust bearing, a rotary valve, and an oil passage. The rotary shaft has an in-shaft passage formed therein. The in-shaft passage has an outlet open to the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft. The cam rotates integrally with the rotary shaft. The pistons are coupled to the rotary shaft through the cam. The thrust bearing is provided between the cam and the cylinder block. The thrust bearing includes a first race in contact with the cam, a second race in contact with the cylinder block, and rolling elements retained between the first and second races to form a gap therebetween. The oil passage is formed in the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft so as to extend from the gap to the outlet of the in-shaft passage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressor, wherein a rotary shaft 140 having a swash plate 144 coupled thereto is used to linearly reciprocate a piston 150 in a cylinder bore 134 formed in front and rear cylinder blocks 130 and 130?. The rotary shaft 140 has a flow channel 142 formed therein and inlets 142a formed to communicate with the flow channel 142. A hub 146 is formed in the swash plate 144, and a shaft hole 146a, through which the rotary shaft 140 passes, is formed in the center of the hub 146. Communication holes 146b are formed in the hub 146 to communicate with the inlets 142a of the flow channel 142. First races 148a are coupled to the hub 146. A rotary shaft hole 148d is formed in the first race 148a, which has a thickness greater in its outer peripheral portion than its inner peripheral portion.

Abstract: A first swash plate (30) and a second swash plate (40) are disposed on either side of a cylinder block (4), and a plurality of cylinders (6) are disposed in the cylinder block (4). A first piston (8) and a second piston (9) are inserted opposite to each other in each cylinder (6) such that the first piston (8) slides on the first swash plate (30) and the second piston (9) slides on the second swash plate (40). By providing a servo mechanism (33) that tilts the first swash plate (30) and a tilt linking mechanism (40, 70) that tilts the second swash plate (40) in conjunction with the tilting of the first swash plate (30), tilt angles of the two swash plates (30, 40) can be controlled by the single servo mechanism (33).

Abstract: A pump/motor includes a back plate having first and second fluid ports configured to be differentially pressurized, first and second reaction plates rigidly coupled to the back plate, and a valve plate slideably coupled to the back plate and having first and second fluid feed channels configured to receive fluid from the first and second fluid ports. A plurality of hold-down pistons is positioned in respective hold-down cylinders formed in the valve plate. Each of the hold-down pistons is configured to be biased, by pressurized fluid in the respective hold-down cylinder, against a surface of one of the reaction plates. A barrel, having a plurality of drive cylinders, is rotatably coupled to the valve plate. Drive pistons positioned in the drive cylinders are biased against a thrust plate by pressurized fluid in the drive cylinders. The thrust plate is coupled to an output shaft of the pump/motor.

Abstract: A sliding device 1 includes a swash plate 3 rotated in association with a rotating shaft 2 and a plurality of semispherical shoes 4 sliding on the swash plate 3. The semispherical shoe 4 is formed of a ferrous material, and the swash plate 3 is manufactured using high-strength brass as a material. On a sliding surface 4A of the shoe 4, a large number of minute annular expandingly projecting parts 7? are formed by laser hardening, and a lubricating oil passage 10? consisting of a reticular concave part is also formed. Thereby, the sliding device 1 having excellent seizure resistance as compared with the conventional sliding device can be provided.

Abstract: A swash plate type hydraulic pump or motor comprises first and second swash plates which move reciprocally while opposing first and second pistons, so as to expand and contract a volume chamber according to rotation of a cylinder block. Drive pistons push on the swash plates from behind, causing the first and second swash plates to tilt, respectively. A tilt angle control valve controls the tilt angles of the swash plates by selectively increasing drive pressures that are guided to the drive pistons. A port plate is provided in a sliding portion between the first swash plate and the first piston. The port plate rotates integrally with the cylinder block and guides high and low pressure side hydraulic fluid, which flows through the supply and discharge ports provided in a sliding surface of the first swash plate, to the volume chamber via an inner portion of each first piston.

Abstract: A swash type compressor includes sleeves which are fixedly fitted in cylinder bores. The lengths of the sleeves in an axial direction are greater than the lengths of the cylinder bores in the axial direction. A sleeve end of each of the sleeves is flush with an end surface of a cylinder block defining the cylinder bores. The opposite sleeve end of the sleeve extends beyond the cylinder bore and away from the opposite end surface of the cylinder block.

Abstract: A reciprocating piston rotary internal combustion engine; comprising a non-rotating circular cylinder engine block containing a rotor on which piston reciprocate at right angles to the direction of centrifugal force, and parallel with the rotor, and at right angles to the direction of rotation of the rotor. These pistons form three sides of the combustion chamber and the combustion chamber ignition blocks, which are built on the rotor along with rotor form two more sides, finally the cylinder forms the sixth side. Compression and decompression is affected by cams on front and back plates guiding pistons by means of cam followers built into the pistons. By altering cams one can produce variable delays (pauses) between the strokes of the combustion cycle or change the number of strokes in a given combustion cycle. The rotor can have the blanks recessed to allow for counterbalances to be inserted, and pistons can have guide rails added to take the counterbalances.

Abstract: This application is for a lightweight variable displacement rotary fluid power machine, including a housing, within which a rotary cylinder barrel shaft is suitably mounted for rotation about a shaft axis. The shaft includes a plurality of open ended cylinder bores disposed in a circumferential array around its longitudinal axis. A tubular shaped fluid conduit telescoping sleeve type compression device, having sliding bearing type piston shoes at each end, is disposed to reciprocate within each cylinder bore, extending therefrom to engage adjustable camming means in sliding contact. A novel fluid valving mechanism is used, which interacts with arcuate slots on the camming surface, to communicate with each telescoping compression device and connect it, in a rotationally phased manner, with inlet and outlet fluid. Load bearing conditions are improved which enhance speed capabilities.Tubular shaped fluid conduit pistons are also used in a non-telescoping manner with the above novel valving apparatus.

Abstract: A parallel swash plate type fluid machine includes a barrel which is rotatable integrally with a rotary shaft, a plurality of cylinder sections directed in the axial direction and opening respectively on the opposite sides of the barrel, pistons fitted in the respective cylinder sections and capable of projecting on the opposite sides of the barrel, and a pair of swash plates for restraining strokes of the pistons provided in a mutually parallel alignment on the opposite sides of the barrel. Parts communicate with respective fluid chambers in the plurality of cylinder sections and have inlet sides connected with each other through a twisted flow passageway and have outlet sides connected with each other through another twisted flow passageway.

Abstract: Device wherein the co-operation of a rotatable shaft and the displacement of a hydraulic medium forms a variable transmission unit or a pump, said device comprising an ingoing (driving) shaft having a widened part/rotor and an outgoing (driven) shaft co-axial with the ingoing shaft, the widened part of the ingoing shaft being provided with a number of cylindrical bores, substantially parallel to its center line, each bore containing a plunger which can reciprocate in said bore, said outgoing shaft being provided with a plate (mirror plate) obliquely arranged under an angle .alpha. with respect to the axis of the shaft for co-operating with protruding end(s) of the plunger(s) such that upon rotation of the rotor or the outgoing shaft the plunger(s) reciprocate in its (their) bores, each bore presenting in its wall a radially directed channel to establish a connection between the bore(s) and a circuit containing a hydraulic medium.

Abstract: A reciprocating engine, in particular for motor vehicles, incorporating a drive shaft, at least one pair of opposed pistons rigidly connected together by a rod, and a swash plate mechanism incorporating a pair of rotating swash plates coupled for rotation with the drive shaft and defining an annular cavity in which at least one oscillating plate is rotatably housed. Coupling means pivotally connect each oscillating plate with at least one respective rod connecting a pair of pistons, and a hydrodynamic thrust bearing is interposed between each of the two rotating plates and the facing surface of the oscillating plate.

Abstract: The hydraulic axial piston engine has a rotary shaft and a stationary control plate symmetrically connected to a two-piece housing supporting for rotation the shaft. Two stationary lifting cams are arranged opposite each other at the end walls of the housing around the shaft; two rotary cylinder blocks are supported for joint rotation on the shaft and each adjoins a face of the control plate; the end walls of the cylinder blocks facing the cams are provided with a plurality of uniformly distributed and axially directed blind bores for accommodating working pistons. The end walls in each blind bore has a through passage for working fluid and the control plate in the range of the passages has a plurality of uniformly distributed control openings connected alternately to two annular distributing channels formed in the plate, one of the channels being connected to an intake port and the other channel to a discharge port for the working fluid.

Abstract: A variable delivery hydraulic equipment is designed to be operated as a pump or a motor and includes a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores on the same circumference thereof and a plurality of plunger assemblies each disposed within the cylinder bore. The plunger assembly has a pair of plungers oppositely disposed within the cylinder bore so as to define a chamber therebetween and slidably movable within the cylinder bore. A pair of cams are disposed in contact with opposite plungers with the cylinder block disposed therebetween. The cams each have a cam surface for imparting a plurality of reciprocatory movements in one cycle to the opposite plunger in a manner that the moving velocities of the opposite plungers are different from each other in all phase position. The cam surfaces are formed to have sine curves each having two crests and a different stroke. In consequence, the volume of the chamber between the opposite plungers is always varied.

Abstract: A piston and cylinder machine of the kind in which there is a wobble mechanism for reciprocating the piston in the cylinder or an arrangement in which a piston assembly and a cylinder assembly rotate about respective inclined axes so that such rotation is accompanied by relative reciprocation of the piston and cylinder, is provided with a piston having a part which has a surface exposed inside the cylinder to define at least a part of one end of a chamber therein and which, to provide sealing of the chamber, has a peripheral surface forming a sphere. Improved torque transmitting or reacting means for maintaining the correct relative orientation of the piston and cylinder are provided.

Abstract: A variable delivery hydraulic equipment is designed to be operated as a pump or a motor and includes a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores on the same circumference thereof and a plurality of plunger assemblies each disposed within the cylinder bore. The plunger assembly has a pair of plungers oppositely disposed within the cylinder bore so as to define a chamber therebetween and slidably movable within the cylinder bore. A pair of cams are disposed in contact with opposite plungers with the cylinder block disposed therebetween. The cams each have a cam surface for imparting a plurality of reciprocatory movements in one cycle to the opposite plunger in a manner that the moving velocities of the opposite plungers are different from each other in all phase position. The cam surfaces are formed to have sine curves each having two crests and a different stroke. In consequence, the volume of the chamber between the opposite plungers is always varied.

Abstract: A rotor comprises two rotor sections mounted coaxially on a shaft for limited axial movement relative to each other. The two sections are slightly spaced axially from each other and one defines a peripheral porting surface engaging a second porting surface defined by a porting member. The rotor has a plurality of bores each carrying a piston and including a first portion defined by one of the rotor sections, a second portion defined by the other of the rotor sections, and an intermediate portion extending between the rotor sections. The pistons engage a cam comprising a sheet pressed into a configuration including a plurality of coaxial annular sheet portions. One sheet portion defines the undulating cam surface; two other sheet portions extend parallel to each other and perpendicular to the one portion from the opposite sides of the one portion.

Abstract: An axial-piston variable-delivery pump with a valve directional control of the pressure fluid flow comprising a housing with an intake manifold, at least one pressure manifold and a pressure fluid admission duct. Axial borings in the housing accommodate oppositely arranged pistons capable of undergoing reciprocating motion and adapted to cooperate with driving members on the drive shaft. The pistons establish delivery chambers in the pump housing, each of them in communication with the pressure manifold through a delivery valve, and with the intake manifold through an inlet valve. The actuator spindle of the inlet valve is adapted to interact with a plunger mounted coaxially with the inlet valve and defines, together with the boring in the pump housing, a chamber in communication with a shaped surface of a cylindrical sleeve which embraces the drive shaft and is interconnected therewith for cooperative rotation.

Abstract: An axial piston motor having a fixed spindle and a rotatable assembly to which is secured a wheel or the like, wherein the motor is disposed within the wheel with the thrust races being removably secured to the angle plates and having a pair of spaced relief ports disposed opposite the inlet port and the outlet port respectively which are fluidly connected to the opposite port for balancing the load of the rotor assembly on the spindle thus providing a fixed clearance between the assembly and the spindle.

Abstract: A two-cycle reciprocal, rotary, internal combustion engine having a plurality of piston cylinders mounted symmetrically around a cylindrical central supply core; each piston cylinder contains two oppositely reciprocating pistons having a common central combustion chamber, the cylinders and pistons are encased in a rotor housing which rotates as a unit around the stationary central core; the central supply core projects from each end of the rotor housing and has stationary elliptical drive plates mounted at an inclination on the ends of the supply core, the inclined drive plates interface cooperatively inclined end faces of the pistons which project through the barrel housing and slide against the drive plates as the barrel housing rotates; rotation results from selective combustion during the reciprocal cycle of the pistons, an angular force being developed by the inclination of the end plates.

Abstract: A fixed displacement fluid motor or pump of the ball or roller piston type in which a plurality of axially or radially extending reciprocating pistons co-act with a cam track to produce output motion or to generate pressure fluid output, respectively. Permanent magnets are secured either to the pistons or in or adjacent the cylinders for holding the pistons in fixed retracted positions beyond one end of the normal stroke of the pistons under certain conditions of relatively low fluid operating pressure in the cylinders which occur in modes of operation during which no motor or pump output is desired.