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Hydrostatic piston engine
11008862 · 2021-05-18 · ·

A hydrostatic piston engine comprises a housing with a cylinder drum with cylinder bores mounted rotatably therein. Each of the cylinder bores receives a working piston in a longitudinally displaceable manner, via which a hydrostatic working chamber is delimited by the cylinder bore. The hydrostatic working chamber has an opening on an outer surface of the cylinder drum by which, when the cylinder drum rotates, outlets of a high-pressure chamber and of a low-pressure chamber of the piston engine and a reversing surface arranged between the two outlets in the rotational direction can be passed over in alternating fashion. At least one pressurizing medium channel is provided which, on one hand, opens out in the reversing surface and, on the other, into a pressurizing medium trough of the piston engine.

Hydraulic system
11002136 · 2021-05-11 · ·

A hydraulic system includes a piston, a swash plate opposed to the piston, and a swash plate supporting member supporting the swash plate so that a tilt of the swash plate is variable. An oil reservoir portion is provided between the swash plate and the swash plate supporting member, the oil reservoir portion communicating with a pressure oil introducing passage. An area of the oil reservoir portion between the swash plate and the swash plate supporting member varies with the tilt of the swash plate.

Operation system for piston-type expander, and operation method for piston-type expander

An operation system for a piston-type expander includes: a first engaging member which is fixed to an output shaft of the piston-type expander, rotates together with the output shaft, and has a first slanting surface; a second engaging member which is rotatably disposed on the output shaft, and has a second slanting surface; and a drive device which, while keeping a rotation direction of the second engaging member around the output shaft fixed, moves the second engaging member in an axial direction of the output shaft to press the second slanting surface onto the first slanting surface, converts a pressing force of the second engaging member in the axial direction into a rotational torque of the first engaging member and the output shaft at a contact surface of the first and second slanting surfaces, and causes the first engaging member to rotate together with the output shaft.

Opposed piston engine

An opposed piston engine has a driveshaft with at least one combustion cylinder positioned between opposing, curvilinear shaped cams mounted on the driveshaft, where the center axis of the combustion cylinder is parallel with but spaced apart from the driveshaft axis. A piston assembly is disposed in each end of the cylinder, with one piston assembly engaging one cam and the other piston assembly engaging the other cam. Each piston assembly includes a cam follower that can move along a curvilinear shaped cam to reciprocate the piston assembly within the cylinder. The combustion cylinder includes an intake port in fluid communication with an annular intake channel formed in the engine block in which the cylinder is mounted, and an exhaust port in fluid communication with an annular exhaust channel formed in the engine block.

Split-cycle engine with a variable displacement compressor and a rotary motor
10883420 · 2021-01-05 ·

A split-cycle internal combustion engine includes a variable displacement compressor having two or more cylinders, an adjustment mechanism for varying the displacement volume of the compressor and possibly the phase between the compressor and the motor, and a rotary motor having two or more expansion chambers. A passage valve system located between the compressor and the motor transfers working fluid and combustion exhaust products, and, in addition, mechanically and thermally isolates the compressor from the high pressures and temperatures present in the motor.

OPERATION SYSTEM FOR PISTON-TYPE EXPANDER, AND OPERATION METHOD FOR PISTON-TYPE EXPANDER
20200408146 · 2020-12-31 ·

An operation system for a piston-type expander includes: a first engaging member which is fixed to an output shaft of the piston-type expander, rotates together with the output shaft, and has a first slanting surface; a second engaging member which is rotatably disposed on the output shaft, and has a second slanting surface; and a drive device which, while keeping a rotation direction of the second engaging member around the output shaft fixed, moves the second engaging member in an axial direction of the output shaft to press the second slanting surface onto the first slanting surface, converts a pressing force of the second engaging member in the axial direction into a rotational torque of the first engaging member and the output shaft at a contact surface of the first and second slanting surfaces, and causes the first engaging member to rotate together with the output shaft.

HYDRAULIC ROTATING MACHINE
20200340360 · 2020-10-29 · ·

A piston pump includes a first biasing mechanism configured to bias a swash plate in accordance with supplied control pressure, a second biasing mechanism configured to bias the swash plate against the first biasing mechanism, and a regulator configured to control the control pressure led to the first biasing mechanism in accordance with discharge pressure of the piston pump, wherein the second biasing mechanism has a pressure chamber to which the discharge pressure is led, and a control piston configured to be biased toward the swash plate by the discharge pressure led to the pressure chamber, and the regulator has a biasing member configured to bias the control piston toward the swash plate, and a control spool configured to be moved in accordance with biasing force of the biasing member, the control spool being configured to adjust fluid pressure.

AXIAL PISTON MACHINE
20200318481 · 2020-10-08 ·

The invention relates to an axial piston machine comprising a drive shaft, a driving gear non-rotatably connected thereto with one or more driving gear pistons accommodated therein, whose piston stroke is adjustable by a swash plate, wherein at least one return spring acts on the swash plate and at least one adjusting piston is supported on the swash plate via an adjusting lever, a first and/or second stop is provided for the adjusting piston to limit the swivel angle of the swash plate, wherein a first stop is formed by the bottom of the blind hole within the connecting plate and/or a second stop is formed by a flat protrusion of the housing in the vicinity of the blind hole.

Cylinder block and swash plate type liquid-pressure rotating apparatus including same

A cylinder block includes: a plurality of cylinder bores including respective openings formed on a piston insertion end surface of the cylinder block, pistons being inserted in the respective cylinder bores and being configured to reciprocate and slide in the respective cylinder bores when the cylinder block rotates; and a cooling portion, wherein the cooling portion includes a plurality of cooling holes each formed between the adjacent cylinder bores and extending from the piston insertion end surface in an axial direction of the cylinder block.

System and Method for Rotational Combustion Engine
20200277890 · 2020-09-03 ·

A rotational combustion engine that generates force from the reciprocal motion and centripetal motion of one or more pistons that is then converted into rotational motion of a first cam and second cam wherein the cams are separated by a 2-3 degree horizontal offset and an angle of 60 degrees as well as camshaft assembly and driving shaft to provide power to an entity such as an automobile.