A double-power-supply complex control device includes a main body. Four control sections and two load flow ways are disposed in the main body. A main flow way is disposed in control section. Four switch members of a switch assembly are assembled and disposed in the main flow ways. A circumference of each main flow way is in communication with multiple bypasses. The main flow ways of each two of the control sections are in communication with a fluid output passage and a fluid input passage of a power device. Some of the bypasses of control section are in communication with each other. A lower flow guide window is disposed on switch member in indirect communication with main flow way. When switch member is operated under external force, the lower flow guide window is switchable between the bypasses to selectively communicate with the bypasses to make different power devices drive.

A hydraulic power tool includes a housing defining a cylinder, a piston at least partially positioned within the cylinder and movable between a retracted position and an extended position, a clevis supporting a head of the power tool, a nut coupled to an outer peripheral surface of the clevis, and a collar coupled to the housing and surrounding the nut to axially constrain the nut between the collar and the housing while permitting relative rotation between the collar and the nut.

A servo valve includes a fluid transfer valve assembly comprising a supply port and a control port; a valve spool arranged to regulate flow of fluid from the supply port to the control port in response to a control signal; and a drive means configured to move the valve spool relative to the fluid transfer assembly in response to the control signal to regulate the fluid flow. The drive means is arranged to rotate the spool relative to the fluid transfer assembly, the spool provided with openings arranged to selectively align with or block flow channels in the fluid transfer assembly according to the direction and degree of rotation of the spool.

An example robot includes a hydraulic actuator cylinder controlling motion of a member of the robot. The hydraulic actuator cylinder comprises a piston, a first chamber, and a second chamber. A valve system controls hydraulic fluid flow between a hydraulic supply line of pressurized hydraulic fluid, the first and second chambers, and a return line. A controller may provide a first signal to the valve system so as to begin moving the piston based on a trajectory comprising moving in a forward direction, stopping, and moving in a reverse direction. The controller may provide a second signal to the valve system so as to cause the piston to override the trajectory as it moves in the forward direction and stop at a given position, and then provide a third signal to the valve system so as to resume moving the piston in the reverse direction based on the trajectory.

A robotic device may traverse a path in a direction of locomotion. Sensor data indicative of one or more physical features of the environment in the direction of locomotion may be received. The implementation may further involve determining that traversing the path involves traversing the one or more physical features of the environment. Based on the sensor data indicative of the one or more physical features of the environment in the direction of locomotion, a hydraulic pressure to supply to the one or more hydraulic actuators to traverse the one or more physical features of the environment may be predicted. Before traversing the one or more physical features of the environment, the hydraulic drive system may adjust pressure of supplied hydraulic fluid from the first pressure to the predicted hydraulic pressure.

A hydraulic actuator includes a hydraulic cylinder; a piston within the hydraulic cylinder and movable in response to movement of hydraulic fluid in a hydraulic circuit coupled to the hydraulic cylinder; a synchronisation connection for receiving an input from a simultaneous transmission line; and a valve for controlling the flow of hydraulic fluid in the hydraulic circuit. The valve is a rotary valve comprising: a first valve section arranged to rotate in either a first rotational direction or a second rotational direction in response to input from the simultaneous transmission line in order to open a hydraulic flow path to the cylinder and urge the piston to move along the hydraulic cylinder in a corresponding first linear direction or second linear direction; and a second valve section arranged to rotate in either the first or second rotational direction.

An automatically actuated shunt valve system opens and closes a passage between two chambers of a powered element operated by a power source. The shunt valve system includes a coupler connecting the powered element with the power source through two mating coupling elements. One of the coupling elements includes a valve contact and the other includes a shunt valve assembly. The shunt valve assembly includes a valve chamber connected with both chambers of the powered element, a valve element opening or closing a flow path between the conduits, and a shaft for moving the valve element. The shaft engages the valve contact to move the valve element to close the flow path when the coupling elements are mated together, and moves the valve element to open the flow path when the shaft disengages from the valve contact as the coupling elements are disconnected from one another.

A distributor device is arranged for controlling a plurality of actuators, each of which is intended to open or close a corresponding mould.

The distributor device comprises a rotary part rotatable about an axis and connectable to the actuators, and a stator part in fluid communication with the rotary part.

The stator part is provided with: a low pressure distributor element, configured to selectively send an actuating fluid at a first pressure to the rotary part, so that one actuator of the plurality of actuators moves a first component and a second component of the corresponding mould closer to each other from a distanced position to an intermediate position; a high pressure distributor element, configured to selectively send an actuating fluid at a second pressure higher than the first pressure to the rotary part, so that the actuator moves the first component and the second component of the corresponding mould closer to each other from the intermediate position to a forming position; a maintaining distributor element, configured to selectively send an actuating fluid to the rotary part, so that the actuator maintains the first component and the second component in the forming position.

The invention relates to a servovalve for regulating the flow or pressure of a fluid, comprising: a control stage comprising at least one permanent magnet, at least one coil and an armature (13) configured to be able to be driven in rotation around an axial direction; a power stage comprising a filler plate (23) and a drum (22) mounted rotatably in said filler plate (23); a slender mechanical transmission shaft (31) extending along said axial direction and having a first end (31a) connected to said armature (13) and an opposite end (31b) connected to said drum (22); characterized in that said control stage further comprises a slender torsionally flexible tube (32) extending along the axial direction (8) around said slender transmission shaft (31) and having a first end (32a) secured with said armature (13), shrunk onto said first end (31a) of said transmission shaft (31), and an opposite end (32b) clamped by a tube support (33) extending as far as said filler plate (23), so as to form a flexible mobile assembly that limits the frictional forces between said drum (22) and said filler plate (23) of the servovalve.

The invention relates to a length-adjustable connecting rod for a reciprocating piston engine, particularly a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, comprising a hydraulic arrangement with which a length of the connecting rod can be adjusted, and a switching valve for controlling the inflow and outflow of a hydraulic medium into or out of the hydraulic arrangement, wherein the switching valve can be actuated electromagnetically.