A hydraulic pump, in particular an adjustable axial piston pump, has at least one piston (22) movable in a reciprocating manner in a longitudinal direction within a pump housing during operation of the hydraulic pump. The piston (22) has a link head (24), a piston top (54) opposite the link head (24), and at least one hollow chamber (60) surrounded at least partially by a piston housing (62) that substantially or completely terminates each hollow chamber (60) towards the outside. A piston (22) for such hydraulic pump is also provided.

A method for coating a pump component (23, 31), in particular, a part of an axial piston pump (7), having the steps of providing a blank of the component (23, 31), providing at least one recess in the blank, filling a powdery coating material into the associated recess, melting the coating material under a protective gas atmosphere and material-removing processing of the blank to form at least one sliding and/or bearing surface (6) from the coating.

An axial piston pump has a swash-plate construction, in particular for hydraulic systems. A cylinder drum (3) can be rotationally driven about a rotational axis (7) in a pump housing (1). Pistons (9) are axially displaceable and support at their actuation ends a swash plate (15). The swash plate can be pivoted by an adjusting device (21) to the desired angles of inclination relative to the rotational axis (7) for adjusting the stroke of the pistons (9) and the fluid pressure generated. The adjusting device has an adjusting piston (35) in a hydraulically actuated adjusting cylinder (31). Their movement can be transmitted to the swash plate (15) by a driven connection having a pivot joint (37, 39; 29, 43). The pivot joint is formed by a ball joint (37, 39) arranged between the piston (35) and the piston rod (41) of the adjusting cylinder (31).

A piston for an axial machine includes a piston body having a cavity that is closed in a pressure-tight way. The cavity is divided into a plurality of chambers, arranged one beside the other in cross-section.

An axial hydraulic pump-motor, in which a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores on a valve plate having a high-pressure side port and a low-pressure side port for controlling an amount of reciprocation of a piston in each of the cylinder bores, the hydraulic pump-motor includes: a residual pressure release port provided on the valve plate and communicating until the cylinder bore on a top dead center side communicates with the low-pressure side port; a residual pressure acquisition portion obtaining a value of a residual pressure in the cylinder bore on the top dead center side; and a directional switching valve switching a flow path between the residual pressure release port and an hydraulic oil tank and a flow path between the residual pressure release port and the low-pressure side port.

A pressure medium powered device generating a reciprocating motion, which includes a body (5), a primary piston (2), a control valve assembly, and at least one secondary piston (3, 4). The primary piston (2) is fitted inside the body (5). The control valve assembly is configured to move the primary piston (2) back and forth. The secondary piston (3, 4) is attached to the primary piston (2). The primary piston (2) includes a first conical surface (20) and the secondary piston (3, 4) includes a corresponding second conical surface (21), whereby the primary piston (2) and the secondary piston (3, 4) are aligned to each other by means of the first conical surface (20) and the second conical surface (21).

A method for forming a pellicle for an extreme ultraviolet lithography is provided. The method includes forming a pellicle membrane over a filter membrane and transferring the pellicle membrane from the filter membrane to a membrane border. Forming the pellicle membrane includes growing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) from in-situ formed metal catalyst particles in a first reaction zone of a reactor, each of the CNTs including a metal catalyst particle at a growing tip thereof, promoting formation of bundles of nanotubes from the individual CNTs in a second zone of the reactor downstream of the first reaction zone. The bundled CNTs are then collected on the filter membrane.

A hydrostatic radial piston unit of the cam-lobe type of construction including a shaft defining a rotational axis of the hydrostatic radial piston unit. The shaft extends with a front end region from a non-rotary, stationary rear casing to a front casing. Within the front casing a cylinder block is housed and fixed in a torque-proof connection to the front end region of the shaft. In the cylinder block radially reciprocating working pistons are disposed in radially oriented cylinder bores to and from which cylinder bores hydraulic fluid can be conducted by means of a distributor. The distributor is arranged rotationally fixed with respect to the front casing and rotationally free relative to the shaft. A circumferential cam-lobe surface with which the working pistons can interact, is formed integrally with the front casing on its radial inner side.

The present invention relates to a compression ring (6) for a piston slipper arrangement (2), wherein the piston slipper arrangement (2) comprises a piston slipper body (3) and a ceramic sliding element (7) and is configured to be provided in an axial piston machine, wherein the compression ring (6) is configured to compress the ceramic sliding element (7). The objective of the present invention is to provide a compression ring (6) which allows an easy assembly of a piston slipper arrangement (2). This objective is solved by a compression ring (6) that comprises first engagement means (8) configured for engaging with corresponding second engagement means (9) of the piston slipper body (3) in order to limit rotation of the compression ring (6) relative to the piston slipper body (3). The invention further relates to a piston slipper arrangement and to an axial piston machine.