The present disclosure provides: at least one component of a rotary valve subassembly; a rotary valve assembly including the rotary valve subassembly; a hydraulic circuit including the rotary valve assembly; an assembly including a robot that incorporates the hydraulic circuit; and a method of operating the rotary valve assembly. The at least one component of the rotary valve subassembly includes a spool. The at least one component of the rotary valve subassembly includes a sleeve.

The present invention relates to a mobile work machine, in particular to a wheeled loader, having a hydraulic circuit, having a pump for conveying a hydraulic medium through the hydraulic circuit, and having at least one control block having an inflow control edge and an outflow control edge for controlling the flow of the hydraulic medium, wherein the work machine has a working tool and a cylinder for actuating the working tool and wherein the cylinder has an outflow and in inflow for the hydraulic medium, and wherein the outflow is in fluid communication with the outflow control edge and the inflow is in fluid communication with the inflow control edge, and wherein the inflow control edge does not have any or has fewer fine control notches than the outflow control edge and thus works in a largely unrestricted manner, while the outflow control edge is equipped with one or more fine control notches so that with a pulling load at the working tool, the outflow control edge restricts the outflow amount through the outflow of the cylinder.

A component of hydraulics, via which a pressure medium connection or flow can be controlled, includes a first portion which is additively manufactured at least in part and on which there is formed at least one control geometry for controlling the pressure medium connection or flow, and a second portion joined thereto.

A flow control valve includes a valve body having an inner circumferential surface defining a longitudinal bore to which first and second fluid passages are connected. A spool is slidably inserted into the bore to allow a flow of fluid from the first to second fluid passage. A valve regulates a flow rate of fluid flowing through the first fluid passage. A first seat surface is defined between an area in which the first fluid passage is connected to the bore and an area in which the second fluid passage is connected to the bore. When the flow of fluid from the first to second fluid passage is initiated, an area of a gap between the first seat surface and the spool on a plane taken in a transverse direction is 5%˜50%, preferably 10%˜20% of an area of an opening defined by the first seat surface.

An example spool includes a spool body varying in diameter along a length of the spool body, thereby forming a plurality of lands of variable diameters, wherein a land of the plurality of lands is configured to control fluid flow from a workport passage formed in a valve worksection to a return cavity; and a plurality of axial grooves formed in a circular array about a circumference of the land, wherein the plurality of axial grooves comprises a first set of axial grooves and a second set of axial grooves, wherein an axial length of axial grooves of the second set of axial grooves is greater than a respective axial length of axial grooves of the first set of axial grooves, allowing the axial grooves of the second set of axial grooves to engage the return cavity before the axial grooves of the first set of axial grooves.

An example valve includes: (i) a valve body defining a longitudinal cavity, where the valve body includes a supply inlet and an operating outlet; (ii) a cage disposed in the longitudinal cavity, where the cage includes (a) a first opening fluidly coupled to the supply outlet, and (b) a second opening fluidly coupled to the operating outlet; and (iii) a spool mounted within the cage and configured to move axially therein. When the valve is actuated, the spool moves within the cage to form a gap, thereby allowing pressurized fluid to flow from the supply inlet through the first opening, the gap, and the second opening to the operating outlet. A flow area defined around an exterior peripheral surface of the spool changes upstream from the gap at a first rate, and changes downstream from the gap at a second rate that is different from the first rate.

A valve includes a valve housing (2) for transport of a heatable fluid such as hydraulic oil. The valve housing has at least one utility connection (A, B), at least one pressure supply connection (P), and at least one return connection (T1, T2). A control slide (6) is guided in the valve housing (2) in a longitudinally displaceable manner. In at least one position of the control slide (6), the pressure supply connection (P) is at least partially separated from the utility connection (A, B), and the heatable fluid arrives, proceeding from this pressure supply connection (P) and via a heat-emitting connection in the control slide (6), at the at least one return connection (TI, T2) as a loss volume flow. The loss volume flow serves as a heat source and heats at least regions of the control slide (6).

A component of hydraulics, via which a pressure medium connection or flow can be controlled, includes a first portion which is additively manufactured at least in part and on which there is formed at least one control geometry for controlling the pressure medium connection or flow, and a second portion joined thereto.

A valve apparatus for influencing a flow of medium between a supply port (38) and a pressure port (40) has a valve device (10). In one closed position, the valve device blocks the connection between the supply port (38) and the pressure port (40). The valve device opens this connection in 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). One fluid chamber (64) comprises a fluid duct (68) in the valve slider (22). The other fluid channel (82) has a further fluid duct (84) that is separate from the fluid duct (68). In one of the opened positions of the valve slider (22), the further fluid duct (84) opens at one end (92) into the medium chamber (80). In every displacement position of the valve slider (22), the further fluid duct (84) is permanently connected at the other end (94) to the pressure port (40).

A hydraulic control valve unit includes an input port hydraulically coupled to a pump, a working port hydraulically coupled to the working load, and a return port connected to a hydraulic tank. The unit includes a control slide movable into different working positions in an axial direction for controlling a hydraulic flow between the hydraulic ports and a slide housing surrounding the control slide. The control slide includes a control segment which is delimited in the axial direction by a control edge, and cooperates with an axial housing segment of the slide housing for controlling a flow cross section for hydraulic flow at the control segment. The control slide is rotationally driven about an axis of rotation in a rotational direction. The control edge of the control segment or the housing segment cooperating with the control segment is designed such that the flow cross section has a different size depending on a rotational position of the control slide.