A radial piston machine includes a housing, rotor, first braking member, and brake ring with a second braking member. The rotor is mounted in the housing to be rotatable relative to an axis of rotation, and has an end face facing in a direction of the axis of rotation. The first braking member is positioned on the end face. The housing has a body defining a ring-shaped extension relative to the axis of rotation. The brake ring is positioned to surround the extension and is configured to be movable in the direction of the axis of rotation so as to bring the second braking member into braking engagement with the first braking member. The brake ring is further configured to positively engage with an inner radial side of the extension to limit a twisting between the housing and brake ring.

A hydrostatic radial piston machine is useable inversely. The hydrostatic radial piston machine has a distributor in which a flushing valve, a pressure-maintaining valve connected downstream of the flushing valve, and two nonreturn valves are arranged.

A rotary machine, for directing a quantity of fluid from an inlet to an outlet, comprises one or more elliptical or near-elliptical rotors having planetary rotation within a housing. The interior cavity of the housing comprises an inverse apex region that is in contact with the rotor during its rotation. In various embodiments the rotor and housing can be symmetric or asymmetric in cross-section. Features are described that can improve the operation of the machine for various end-use applications. Such features include cut-outs that are fluidly connected to the inlet or outlet ports of the machine, mechanisms for reducing variation in output flow rate from the rotary machine, linings for the interior cavity of the housing, pressure relief mechanisms, dynamic apex seals and other sealing mechanisms.

It is intended to provide a vehicle comprising a fluid working machine which can reduce wear of parts and be produced at low cost. The fluid working machine 11, 12 is provided with an eccentric cam 17, a piston 18A to 18F, a cylinder 19A to 19F, a drive rod 20A-20F having an engaging part 24 engaging with the piston and a contact part 25 contacting the eccentric cam 17, a holding member 34A to 34F surrounding the drive rod, a pressing member 40A to 40F for pressing up the holding member in a radially outward direction, and at least one holding ring 41 for holding the holding member from the outside.

A hydraulic energy flow conversion device is for use in association with a compressed air storage unit and an input device. The input device is for inputting mechanical energy. The hydraulic energy flow conversion device includes a first hydraulic cylinder and a means for decreasing the displacement rate during the compression cycle. The first hydraulic cylinder includes a first hydraulic piston and has a compression cycle, an expansion cycle and a displacement rate. The first hydraulic cylinder is operably connected to the compressed air storage unit. The first hydraulic piston is operably connected to the input device. The energy input device may be a wind turbine.

A multi piston machine includes a rotor, pistons, a first control valve, and a second control valve. The pistons abut against a cam surface with multiple lobes. The machine is switchable between at least three non-zero displacement volumes using the first and the second control valves. The first control valve is connected to a first and a third fluid chamber. The second control valve is connected to a second and a fourth fluid chamber. The first and the second control valve are connected to first and the second working port respectively. A third number of second control openings is twice a second number of the lobes. There is a first and a second group of the second control openings. Adjacent second control openings belong to a different first or second group. The second control openings of the first group are either connected to the first or the second fluid chamber.

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.

Provided is a design method for a self-compensation structure of a cam-lobe hydraulic motor plate distribution system, which comprises that follow steps: firstly, establishing a force balance equation, a pressure distribution equation and a flow balance equation for each balance chamber, setting a boundary condition, and setting an expected nominal clearance; selecting a fit clearance for simultaneous solutions, and obtaining a set of solutions of areas; taking a maximum value in this set of solutions as the median, and setting a set of area values in the optimization design; further solving changing curves of the nominal clearance and the total leakage of the distribution system with the rotation angle of the cylinder block, and calculating the average value of various curves after the operation is smooth, and designing the self-compensation structure based on selection of the optimal combination of the fit clearance and area.

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.