Abstract:
A pressure accumulator comprises an accumulator housing (2) in which a movable separating element (30) fluid-tightly separates a gas chamber (16) filled with a working gas from a fluid chamber (28). The pressure accumulator is characterized in that a monitoring device (50, 54) is provided which supplies an optical signal in the event of a malfunction affecting the sealing effect of the separating element (30).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a system for improving the energy efficiency in hydraulic systems, comprising an actuator (49) which, in an operating state, operates as a consumer of hydraulic energy and, in a different operating state, as a generator of hydraulic energy, and a hydraulic accumulator (1) which, when in an operating state of the actuator (49), can be charged by the same for storing energy and, when in a different operating state, can be discharged for delivering energy to the actuator (49). The invention is characterized in that at least one hydraulic accumulator in the form of an adjustable hydropneumatic piston accumulator (1) is provided, in which a are formed a plurality of pressure chambers (19, 21, 23, 25) which adjoin effective surfaces (11, 13, 15, 17) of different sizes on the fluid side of the accumulator piston (5), and an adjusting arrangement (51) is provided which connects a selected pressure chamber (19, 21, 23, 25) or a plurality of selected pressure chambers (19, 21, 23, 25) of the piston accumulator (1) to the actuator (49) as a function of the pressure level that prevails respectively on the gas side of the piston accumulator (1) and on the actuator (49).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of using new flushing ports (1A, 1B) when cleaning a piston accumulator (7). Dirty hydraulic oil is returned out via the main port (2) and a return passage (9) until a cleanness grade has been reached. Clean hydraulic oil is forced into the piston accumulator (7) via the axial bores (3A, B) of the flushing ports (1A, B) and further in sloping bores (3C, D), bringing the hydraulic oil into the volume (8) in an upward, tangential direction below the piston (5), into a flushing circulation. By reducing the gas pressure on the gas side (4) of the piston (5) in relation to flushing pressure input from a valve (6), a volume (8) is created on the oil side between the piston (5) and the end bottom (3). The return passage (9) is closed and the piston (5) is brought into its upper position, so that an internal cylinder wall (10) is cleaned. Upon pressure build-up, the return passage (9) is opened, and the piston (5) returns to its end position on the oil side while the supply of clean hydraulic oil is maintained, and the operation is repeated until a clean-ness grade has been achieved.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a hydraulic fluid accumulator (30) having a high-pressure chamber (32) and a low-pressure chamber (33), wherein the high-pressure chamber (32) provided with an equalizing volume (36) is disposed in the low-pressure chamber (33). Provided at the hydraulic fluid accumulator (30) is an external connection (34) for the equalizing volume (36), by means of which connection the equalizing volume (36) can be filled with a gas having a predefinable pressure.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for damping discharge pulsations in a medium being pumped through a system of pipes in a pulsating manner by a displacement pump that operates with a specific discharge characteristic, which device at least comprises a housing with an at least partially gas-filled damping chamber having a certain volume present therein, which housing can be connected to the system of pipes, in such a manner that an interface layer is present between the medium and the gas in the damping chamber during operation, which damping chamber has a desired gas pressure characteristic that partially depends on the discharge characteristic of the displacement pump, wherein the gas volume that is present in the damping chamber varies in time between a minimum compression volume and a maximum expansion volume under the influence of said discharge pulsations during operation, as well as adjusting means that supply gas to or discharge gas from the damping chamber The present invention provides a simpler and less complicated construction both for pulsation dampers provided with a separating element and for air boxes not provided with a separating element. In order to achieve an optimised damping of the discharge pulsations, the adjusting means are according to the invention arranged for determining the desired gas pressure characteristic in the damping chamber on the basis of the discharge characteristic of the displacement pump and determining the current gas pressure characteristic in the damping chamber, and comparing the current gas pressure characteristic as determined with the desired gas pressure characteristic of the damping chamber and determining the current position of the interface layer in the damping chamber on the basis of said comparison.
Abstract:
A braking system includes an accumulator positioned along the brake line between the wheel brake and a pump. The accumulator includes a cylinder defining a bore and a piston fitted within the bore. The cylinder defines an inlet and an outlet fluidically connecting the bore to the brake line. The outlet is axially spaced from the inlet and is positioned to be sealed closed by the piston when it is proximate to inlet. The accumulator stores a reserved volume of fluid that is not delivered to the pump via the outlet to thereby reduce the volume of fluid delivered to the master cylinder by the pump and prevent damage to the lip seals during ABS control.
Abstract:
A metallic bellows, composed of precipitation hardening stainless steel, includes ridge portions and valley portions formed alternately and continuously, an average grain size of 10 to 15 μm, and compressive residual stress of not less than 500 MPa provided to at least surfaces of the ridge portions and the valleys by surface working.
Abstract:
A bellows-type hydraulic accumulator includes a shell, a bellows unit, and a stay in order to accumulate pressurized liquid within a liquid chamber, divided into a fixed-volume liquid chamber and a variable-volume liquid chamber communicating with the fixed-volume liquid chamber via a communication port formed in the stay. A pipe is inserted into a liquid inlet/outlet port communicating with the fixed-volume liquid chamber, to thereby form an inflow passage inside the pipe and an outflow passage outside the pipe. A tip end of the pipe is located within the communication port of the stay with a predetermined radial clearance formed between the tip end and a wall surface of the communication port, to thereby enable pressurized liquid to be supplied to the variable-volume liquid chamber from the tip end of the pipe and to be discharged from the variable-volume liquid chamber to the fixed-volume liquid chamber via the radial clearance.
Abstract:
A hydraulic fluid reservoir comprises a body defining a variable volume chamber having one end portion movable with the level of fluid in the chamber. A biasing member acting on a traction rod extending from the movable end portion restrains movement thereof under fluid pressure. The fluid pressure in the variable volume chamber advantageously counterbalances the force of reaction in the biasing member.
Abstract:
A malfunction detection device of a bellows type accumulator for pressurized fluid includes malfunction judgment unit for judging a malfunction of the bellows type accumulator on the basis of a detection output of the pressure sensor. The malfunction judgment unit judges that the malfunction of the seal member generates when the difference between a peak pressure value appeared before a predetermined time is past after the starting of the pressure increase from a value below a predetermined value in the inlet and outlet port and a stable fluid pressure appeared after the appearance of the peak pressure value is not within a predetermined range and/or when the peak pressure value does not appear before the progress of the predetermined time.