A cradle bearing for supporting a swashplate of a variable hydraulic axial piston. The cradle bearing is of an angular ball bearing type or includes, with respect to the bearing axis, a tapered inner race and/or a tapered outer race. A swashplate for a variable hydraulic axial piston unit including a first and a second cradle bearing zone spaced to each other in axial direction of a swashplate tilt axis, suitable for supporting the swashplate in a housing of a variable hydraulic axial piston unit, wherein the first cradle bearing zone is inclined with respect to the swashplate tilt axis. A variable hydraulic axial piston unit of the swashplate type including a swashplate which is supported rotatable in the housing of the variable hydraulic axial piston unit at a first bearing zone by a tapered bearing and at a second bearing zone by regular cylindrical cradle bearing or a journal bearing whose axis is aligned with the swashplate tilt axis.

A device, system, and process for turning hydraulic pressure into rotational force and for turning rotational motion into hydraulic pressure. An example of the device/system for performing the process comprises actuators, rotationally positioned between two thrust plates that are fixed in a housing at an angle to a rotational axis and in parallel to each other.

A swashplate-type axial piston machine includes a housing, a first pivot bearing received in the housing, a drive shaft rotatably mounted in respect of an axis of rotation, a cylinder drum, a control plate, a third control aperture in the plate, and a first channel arranged in the housing. The first pivot bearing delimits a first and second housing space from one another. The drum and the plate are arranged in the first housing space. The plate has at least a first and at least a second control aperture. The first aperture is in fluidic exchange connection with a first fluid connection on the housing. The second aperture is in fluidic exchange connection with a second fluid connection on the housing. The third aperture is arranged in the peripheral direction between a first and a second aperture. The first channel fluidically connects the third aperture to the second housing space.

A sliding member including, a support layer and a sliding layer provided on a side of one end surface of the support layer configured to slide on a mating member, the sliding layer having a hardness set higher toward an outer side than at a center in an axial direction.

A motor-hydraulic machine unit includes an electric motor, a hydraulic machine, and a connection body that has a planar connection surface which delimits first and second working connections. The first and second working connections are each in fluid exchange connection with the hydraulic machine via an assigned first fluid duct in the connection body. The electric motor and the hydraulic machine have a common axis of rotation which is arranged substantially parallel to the connection surface. The hydraulic machine and the electric motor are arranged on opposite sides of the connection body in the direction of the axis of rotation. The connection body is traversed by a drive aperture in the direction of the axis of rotation. The electric motor and the hydraulic machine are in rotary drive connection in a region of the drive aperture.

A hydraulic fan drive includes an adjustable variable-displacement pump by which a pressurized fluid can be sucked in and can be delivered via a pump pressure port and which has, for adjustment of the delivery volume, an adjustment device with an actuation chamber, which is delimited by an actuation surface of an adjustment piston and to which a pressurized fluid can be supplied for increasing the delivery volume and from which pressurized fluid can be displaced for reducing the delivery volume. The adjustment device further includes a counter chamber, which is delimited by a counter surface, smaller in cross section in comparison with the actuation surface, of an adjustment piston and can be acted on by pump pressure. The adjustment device also includes an actuation spring, which acts so as to adjust the delivery volume toward an extreme value.

An axial piston machine has a swash plate and an adjusting device having an adjusting cylinder and a double-acting adjusting piston which is longitudinally movable in the adjusting cylinder and includes a piston and a piston rod, which is fixedly connected to the piston and is articulated to the swash plate. The joint between the adjusting piston and the swash plate is a movable swivel joint having a joint body receptacle on one part and a joint body on the other part of the adjusting piston and the swash plate. The joint body is closely guided in the joint body receptacle in the direction of movement of the adjusting piston, is to rotatable about an axis of rotation running parallel to the pivot axis of the swashplate, and is movable with a directional component perpendicular to the direction of movement of the adjusting piston and perpendicular to the axis of rotation.

A swash-plate type piston pump motor includes: a rotary shaft; a cylinder block that rotates together with the rotary shaft; a plurality of pistons (5) each of which is inserted so as to be reciprocable in each of a plurality of cylinders formed in the cylinder block; a plurality of piston shoes (6) attached so as to be swingable to an end portion (501) of each piston; a swash plate (7) inclined with respect to an axis of the rotary shaft and having a sliding surface (41) being in contact with a plurality of piston shoes; and a shoe retainer (8) configured to press the piston shoe against the sliding surface. Each piston shoe includes a shoe body (71) being in contact with a sliding surface, and an elastic body (79) provided between the shoe body and the shoe retainer.

A device, system, and process for turning hydraulic pressure into rotational force and for turning rotational motion into hydraulic pressure. An example of the device/system for performing the process comprises actuators, rotationally positioned between two thrust plates that are fixed in a housing at an angle to a rotational axis and in parallel to each other.

A variable wobbler for a hydraulic unit is disclosed, which includes body defining a central vertical axis, a horizontal longitudinal axis and a horizontal transverse axis, and including an exterior surface having a segmented outer peripheral edge and a circular inner peripheral edge extending around the central vertical axis, wherein a datum point is located on a first lateral segment of the outer peripheral edge of the exterior surface, and wherein a 45 degree relief angle is formed between the outer peripheral edge of the first lateral segment and a datum line that extends through the datum point in a direction that is perpendicular to the horizontal longitudinal axis.