Fluid actuator for influencing the flow along a flow surface, as well as blow-out device and flow body comprising a like fluid actuator

Abstract

The invention relates to fluid actuator for influencing the flow along a flow surface through ejection of a fluid. By means of a like fluid actuator, a continuous flow is distributed to at least two outlet openings in order to generate fluid pulses out of these outlet openings. Control of this distribution takes place inside an interaction chamber which is supplied with fluid flow via a feed line. Into this interaction chamber there merge at least two control lines via control openings to which a respective different pressure may be applied. Depending on the pressure difference at the control openings, the flow in the interaction chamber is distributed to the individual outlet openings.

Claims

1. A fluid actuator for influencing a flow along a flow surface by pulsating ejection of a fluid flowing through the fluid actuator, the fluid actuator comprising a plurality of outlet devices, wherein each outlet device comprises at least two separate outlet openings for ejection of the fluid and an outlet line corresponding with each outlet opening and merging into the outlet openings, a plurality of interaction chambers, one for each outlet device, wherein each interaction chamber is in fluid-communicating connection with the separate outlet openings of a respective outlet device and comprises one flow dividing device for dividing a feed fluid flow into the outlet lines of the respective outlet device, a common feed line which conducts the feed fluid flow into all of the interaction chambers, and a common control pressure varying device comprising a control flow dividing device, wherein control lines for mutually influencing the fluid flow from the common feed line are connected to the control flow dividing device, the control lines each comprising corresponding control openings which conduct a control fluid flow into all of the interaction chambers to generate respective different control pressures by supplying the control fluid flow at respective different control pressures into the plurality of interaction chambers, and wherein each control line comprises a feedback line which merges into the control flow dividing device so that supplying the control fluid flow into the control flow dividing device generates an alternating control fluid flow from the control lines to alternatingly cause a majority of the feed fluid flow to pass into one of the outlet lines of each interaction chamber and, thus, causing a pulsating flow in the outlet lines, wherein the fluid flowing through the fluid actuator comprises at least the feed fluid flow and the control fluid flow.

2. The fluid actuator according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of interaction chambers is configured such that, by supplying the control fluid flow through a first of the control lines at a greater pressure than through the other control lines, a majority of the feed fluid flow is correspondingly deflected into the outlet line corresponding to the first control line through which the control fluid flow is supplied at a greater pressure than through the other control lines.

3. The fluid actuator according to claim 1, wherein the control pressure varying device further comprises a control feed line and the control lines, the control flow dividing device having a branching section for branching the control fluid flow from the control feed line into each of the control lines and the corresponding feedback lines which are connected to the respective control line through at least one control line outlet device downstream from the branching section and at least one control line inlet device in a region of the branching section upstream from the at least one control line outlet device in a direction of the control fluid flow.

4. The fluid actuator according to claim 3, wherein the control pressure varying device is configured such that the control fluid flow directed transversely to the flow in the control feed line exits from that control line inlet device to divert a majority of the control fluid flow in the control feed line into the control line opposite the control line inlet device.

5. The fluid actuator according to claim 1, wherein the control pressure varying device is configured such that the control fluid flow being diverted into the control lines and, consequently, also to the outlet lines occurs successively and alternatingly.

6. The fluid actuator according to claim 3, wherein the control line outlet devices are at least partly directed against the direction of the control fluid flow and are situated in the control fluid flow so that a part of the control fluid flow enters the corresponding feedback line.

7. The fluid actuator according to claim 1, wherein, in at least one of the feedback lines, a throttle valve is arranged to influence a flow velocity in the at least one feedback line which has the throttle valve.

8. The fluid actuator according to claim 3, wherein at least one throttle valve for changing a flow velocity of the control fluid flow into the control flow dividing device is arranged in the control feed line.

9. The fluid actuator according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of interaction chambers have convexly curved walls in a direction of the outlet lines so that a fluid flow along a respective one of the convexly curved walls causes a stable flow along this convexly curved wall into the respective outlet line.

10. The fluid actuator according to claim 3, wherein the control feed line of the control pressure varying device has convexly curved walls in a direction of the control lines so that a fluid flow along a respective one of the convexly curved walls causes a stable flow along this convexly curved wall into the respective control line.

11. A blow-out device comprising at least one fluid actuator according to claim 1, the blow-out device further comprising a throttle valve which is in fluid-communicating connection with at least one control feed line of one or more of the at least one fluid actuator and controls a velocity of the control fluid flow into the control feed line.

12. The blow-out device according to claim 11, wherein the throttle valve is in fluid-communicating connection with at least two control feed lines of at least two of the at least one fluid actuator and is configured to regulate respective velocities of the control fluid flowing into the control feed lines.

13. A flow body comprising at least one fluid actuator according to claim 1.

14. A fluid actuator for influencing a flow along a flow surface by pulsating ejection of a fluid flowing through the fluid actuator, the fluid actuator comprising: a plurality of outlet devices, wherein each outlet device comprises at least two separate outlet openings for ejection of the fluid and an outlet line corresponding with each outlet opening and merging into the outlet openings; at least two interaction chambers, wherein each interaction chamber is in fluid-communicating connection with the separate outlet openings of the respective outlet device and comprises one flow dividing device for dividing a feed fluid flow into the outlet lines of the respective outlet device; a feed line which conducts the feed fluid flow into all of the interaction chambers, and a common control pressure varying device comprising a control flow dividing device, wherein control lines for mutually influencing the fluid flow from the common feed line are connected to the control flow dividing device, the control lines each comprising corresponding control openings which conduct a control fluid flow into all of the interaction chambers to generate respective different control pressures by supplying the control fluid flow at respective different control pressures into the at least two interaction chambers, and wherein each control line comprises a feedback line which merges into the control flow dividing device so that supplying the control fluid flow into the control flow dividing device generates an alternating control fluid flow from the control lines to alternatingly cause a majority of the feed fluid flow to pass into one of the outlet lines of each interaction chamber and, thus, causing a pulsating flow in the outlet lines, wherein the fluid flowing through the fluid actuator comprises at least the feed fluid flow and the control fluid flow, and wherein the control pressure varying device further comprises a control feed line and the control lines, the control flow dividing device having a branching section for branching the flow from the control feed line into each of the control lines and the corresponding feedback line which is connected to the respective control line through at least one control line outlet device downstream from the branching section and at least one control line inlet device in a region of the branching section upstream from the corresponding control line outlet device in a direction of the control fluid flow.

15. The fluid actuator according to claim 14, wherein the control pressure varying device is configured such that the control flow directed transversely to the flow in the control feed line exits from that control line inlet device to divert a majority of the control fluid flow in the control feed line into the control line opposite the control line inlet device.

16. The fluid actuator according to claim 14, wherein the control line outlet devices are at least partly directed against the direction of the control fluid flow and are situated in the control fluid flow so that a part of the control fluid flow enters the corresponding feedback line.

17. The fluid actuator according to claim 14, wherein the control pressure varying device is configured such that the control flow directed transversely to the flow in the control feed line exits from that control line inlet device to divert a majority of the control fluid flow in the control feed line into the control line opposite the control line inlet device.

18. The fluid actuator according to claim 14, wherein the control feed line of the control pressure varying device has convexly curved walls in a direction of the control lines so that a fluid flow along a respective one of the convexly curved walls causes a stable flow along this convexly curved wall into the respective control line.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) The present invention shall be explained in more detail by referring to the annexed figures of the drawings. Here the expressions left, right, top and bottom refer to an orientation of the figures of the drawings where reference symbols are legible in a normal manner.

(2) FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a fluid actuator according to the present invention;

(3) FIG. 2 shows another embodiment of a fluid actuator of the invention;

(4) FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of a fluid actuator of the invention;

(5) FIG. 4a shows the control pressure varying device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

(6) FIG. 4b shows the control pressure varying device of FIG. 4a with a diverted control flow;

(7) FIG. 5 shows a first embodiment of a blow-out device of the invention;

(8) FIG. 6 shows another embodiment of a blow-out device of the invention;

(9) FIG. 7 shows another embodiment of a blow-out device of the invention;

(10) FIG. 8 shows another embodiment of a blow-out device of the invention;

(11) FIG. 9 shows another embodiment of a blow-out device of the invention; and

(12) FIGS. 10a-10c show different embodiments for the control line outlet device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(13) In FIG. 1 a first embodiment of a fluid actuator 10 of the invention is represented. The fluid actuator 10 of the embodiment of FIG. 1 comprises an outlet device 20 having two outlet openings 24a and 24b. The fluid actuator 10 of this embodiment thus serves to obtain a pulsation by distributing a fluid flow between the two outlet openings 24a and 24b.

(14) In order to distribute air to the two outlet openings 24a and 24b, a feed line 40 is arranged in the fluid actuator 10 of FIG. 1 which introduces air, and thus flowing fluid, into an interaction chamber 30 which is represented in FIG. 1. Inside the interaction chamber 30 a flow division is performed, i.e. the supplied fluid flow from the feed line 40 is alternatingly distributed majoritarily to one of the two outlet lines 22a and 22b, as will be described later on. To this end the interaction chamber 30 represented in FIG. 1 comprises two flow lines 32a and 32b which are in fluid-communicating connection with the outlet lines 22a and 22b and via the latter with the outlet openings 24a and 24b. In other words, the fluid flow from the feed line 40 is alternatingly conducted majoritarily once via the upper control line 30a into the upper outlet line 22a and thus into the upper outlet line 24a. Following termination of the first pulse through this outlet opening 24a, the flow dividing device 36 changes the distribution of the fluid flow so that the fluid flow from the feed line 40 is diverted and flows via the lower flow line 32b into the lower outlet line 22b, to exit from the lower outlet opening 24b. When this second pulse is terminated, this process starts anew.

(15) Diversion or switching over between the two flow lines 32a and 32b and thus switching over between the two outlet lines 22a and 22b or the outlet openings 24a and 24b takes place in accordance with the following description.

(16) Two control lines 62a and 62b merge in the interaction chamber 30 via control openings 64a and 64b. If respective different control pressures are applied to these control openings 64a and 64b, then the flow in the interaction chamber 30 that is provided by the feed line 40 follows the side of the interaction chamber 30 presenting the control opening 64a or 64b having the relatively lower control pressure. In other words, between the two control openings 64a and 64b there exists a control pressure difference or a pressure gradient which results in the fluid flow from the feed line 40 being given a direction. If the lower control pressure is present at the lower control opening 64b, then the fluid flow from the feed line 40 is majoritarily conducted into the lower flow line 32b and thus into the lower outlet line 22b so as to exit from the lower outlet opening 24b. If, in contrast, the lower control pressure is applied at the control opening 64a above inside the interaction chamber 30, then the flow from the feed line 40 follows the upper flow line 32a into the upper outlet line 22a so as to exit from the upper outlet opening 24a. This functionality results from the vector addition between the flow vector of the flow from the feed line 40 and the flow vector of the flow from the control opening 64a or 64b having the higher control pressure. The resulting sum vector urges, as it were, the flow from the feed line 40 to the opposite side of the interaction chamber 40.

(17) For the purpose of control via the interaction chamber 30, the control openings 64a and 64b which merge in the interaction chamber 30 are provided via the control lines 62a and 62b. In order to be able to alternatingly generate the different pressures at the two control lines, a control pressure varying device 60 is realized. This control pressure varying device 60 comprises two control lines 62a and 62b to each of which a respective feedback line 72a and 72b is allocated. Inside the respective control line 62a and 62b a respective control line outlet device 74a and 74b is arranged which withdraws fluid flow from the respective control line 62a and 62b and supplies it to the respective feedback line 72a and 72b. Furthermore each feedback line 72a and 72b comprises a control line inlet device 76a and 76b arranged in the branching section 65 of the control pressure varying device 60. The arrangement of the control line inlet devices 76a and 76b is selected such that the flow from the feedback line 72a and 72b flows out from the respective control line inlet device 76a and 76b substantially transversely to the direction of flow in the control feed line 68 and thus also transversely to the direction of flow in the branching section 65. The operation of the control hereby established is explained in the following while making reference to FIGS. 4a and 4b.

(18) FIG. 4a shows a possible starting condition in which the greater proportion of the flow from the control feed line 68 is distributed to the upper control line 62b. The flow from the control feed line 68 accordingly is distributed via the branching section 65 of the control flow dividing device 66 to the upper control line 62b. Inside this control line 62b the control line outlet device 74b is arranged which withdraws a part of this fluid flow in the control line. The withdrawn flow is returned via the feedback line 72b, i.e., contrary to the direction of flow in the control line 62b. At the end of the feedback line 72 a discharge of the returned flow from the feedback line 74b takes place via the control line inlet device 76b.

(19) Admission into the control line 62b or into in the branching section 65, respectively, takes place transversely to the direction of flow in this position. In this way the flow from the control feed line 68 is influenced such as to be urged downward in FIG. 4a, i.e. into the opposite control line 62a. After the flow majoritarily flows into the lower control line 62a, the flow in the feedback line 72b strongly decreases, and on the opposite side an opposite feedback flow forms via the control line outlet device 74a, the feedback line 72a, and the control line inlet device 76a. Once the feedback flow in the feedback line 72a has been realized fully, the corresponding flow exits from the lower control line outlet device 76a transversely to the direction of flow in the branching section 65 and in turn urges the corresponding flow in the branching section 65a into the opposite, now upper control line 62b. The flow in the feedback line 72a in the lower range of the control pressure varying device 60 decreases and the situation as represented in FIG. 4a comes about. In other words, in the operational situation the flow changes between the two control lines 62a and 62b due to the alternating influence on the flow in the branching section 65 from the control line outlet devices 76a and 76b. The alternation frequency may be situated in a range from 50 Hz to 250 Hz. Operation at a frequency in a range from 140 Hz to 160 Hz is particularly effective.

(20) In FIG. 2 a variation of a fluid actuator 10 of the invention comprising a multiplicity of interaction chambers 30 and outlet devices 20 is represented. As the control pressure varying device 60 a device is provided as may be seen, e.g., in FIG. 1 or in FIGS. 4a and 4b. Here, however, not a single outlet device 20 having a single interaction chamber 30 is arranged downstream, but rather a multiplicity, in particular three outlet devices 20 having three interaction chambers 30. Each one of these interaction chambers 30 has a port of two respective control lines 62a and 62b via corresponding control openings 64a and 64b. However for each of the control openings 64a and 64b a connection with the common control lines 62a and 62b of the common control pressure varying devices 60 is provided. In other words, despite the use of a a multiplicity of outlets 24a and 24b the complexity of such a system is restricted to a minimum because a common control pressure varying device 60 may be employed. In addition a common feed line 40 is moreover used which conducts the fluid flow into each of the interaction chambers 30. This disposition equally reduces the complexity of such a system.

(21) FIG. 3 shows a variant in accordance with another subject matter of the present invention wherein the control pressure varying device 60 is used as a varying device 460 for the further subject matter of the present invention, namely, a fluid actuator 410. The fluid actuator 410 is configured such that it substantially comprises a combination of the outlet device 20 and of the control pressure varying device 60 in a common and thus more compact fluid actuator 410.

(22) The fluid actuator 410 of this embodiment comprises two outlet openings 424aand 424b. These are supplied with fluid flow via the respective outlet line 422a and 422b. In order to distribute fluid flow from a common feed line 440 to the two outlet lines 422a and 422b, a device, i.e., a varying device 460 is provided as substantially corresponds in its operation to the control pressure varying device 60 of the embodiments explained in the foregoing. In other words, a branching section 465 is arranged downstream from the feed line 440 in the direction of flow. For the purpose of distribution a flow dividing device 466 is provided. In order to perform the flow division, one respective feedback line 472a, 472b is provided for each outlet line 422a and 422b. Each one of these feedback lines 472a and 472b comprises an outlet line outlet device 474a and 474b as well as an outlet line inlet device 476a and 476b. The operation is identical with the control pressure varying device 60 of the embodiment described in the foregoing. In particular, flow is withdrawn via the respective outlet line outlet device 474a and 474b from the respective outlet line 422a and 422b. The withdrawn flow is returned in the respective condition, i.e. once in the one outlet line 422a and once in the other outlet line 422b, via the associated feedback line 472a and 472b against the direction of flow in the outlet line 422a and 422b. The returned flow is ejected via an outlet line inlet device 476a and 476b substantially transversely to the flow in the branching section 465. The ejection in this respect brings about the sudden changeover of the flow to the opposite outlet line 422a and 422b. It may be advantageous in a fluid actuator of the invention if a throttle valve 69a, 69b is arranged in at least one of the feedback lines 472a, 472b in order to influence the velocity of the flow in this feedback line 472a, 472b to achieve the desired operation. Hereby it is possible to adjust an alternating operation, as was already explained in the foregoing in regard of the control pressure varying device 60 of the previous embodiments.

(23) In other words, a fluid actuator 410 of the invention as in FIG. 3 may be used for directly generating a pulsation at the outlet openings 424a and 424b. The detour via an interaction chamber is not necessary in this embodiment. On the other hand, this embodiment is limited to a maximum amount of volume flow, for an energy dissipation is generated through the feedback lines inside the fluid actuator 410. Above a certain minimum volume flow for the throughput from the outlet openings 424a and 424b, a fluid actuator 10 of the embodiment discussed first is provided with higher efficiency.

(24) Furthermore, specialized realizations of the walls in the control lines 62a and 62b and in the flow lines 32a and 32b may be seen in FIG. 1. The walls of the control pressure varying device 60 are realized as convexly curved walls 60a and 60b. As a result of this convex curvature, a flow applied by periodical changeover of the flow from the control supply line to the one wall 60a or the other wall 60b stably attaches itself to the corresponding wall 60a or 60b. This formation of the respective wall 60a and 60b thus stabilizes the flow applied in this manner.

(25) The convexly curved realization of the walls 30a and 30b of the interaction chamber 30 operates likewise. In this case the application is, however, not effected by changeover by means of the control line inlet devices 76a and 76b but by the pressure difference at the control openings 64a and 64b. The slight pressure difference between the control openings 64a and 64b in a sense urges the arriving fluid flow from the feed line 40 once onto the one wall 30a and once onto the other wall 30b. Having been applied to the respective wall 30a or 30b, the flow stabilizes itself along the convex curvature of the wall 30a or 30b and is thus majoritarily conducted into the corresponding flow line 32a and 32b. In other words, both in the control pressure varying device 60 and in the interaction chamber 30 the stabilization of the respective applied and deflected flow may be effected by correspondingly realized walls 60a, 60b, 30a and 30b, whereby the proportion of the distribution to the respective preferred control line 62a or 62b or the respective preferred flow line 32a or 32b may be increased.

(26) FIG. 5 shows a first embodiment of a blow-out device of the invention 200 in association with a flow body 500. The flow body 500 may, for example, be the main wing of an aircraft, and the outlet openings 24a, 24b may be provided on the trailing edge relative to the direction of flow before subsequent control flaps on the main wing. The outlet openings 24a, 24b of a fluid actuator of the invention may also be arranged on the very control flaps in order to stabilize flows present there, or to reattach a flow already having become detached in this range to the control flaps. Here a fluid actuator 10 of the present invention is represented schematically. This fluid actuator 10 comprising interaction chamber 30, control pressure varying device 60 and corresponding control passages 62a, 62b and outlet lines 22a and 22b as well as control openings 64a and 64b and outlet openings 24a and 24b may be realized, e.g., by an embodiment of FIG. 1. The feed line 40 is connected to a supply line 310 which in turn is in fluid-communicating connection with a pressurized air supply device 300. The same is true for the control feed line 68 that is in connection with a control supply line 320 which in turn also receives its pressurized air from the pressurized air supply device 300. The pressurized air supply device 300 may, for example, be the turbine of an aircraft which provides bleed air for the two supply lines 310 and 320. Alternatively the pressurized air supply device 300 may also be realized in some other manner, for example through openings at the bottom side of a flow body through which air can enter into the corresponding supply line 310 and/or 320.

(27) In the case of the particularly simple and cost-efficient and low-maintenance embodiment of FIG. 5 not a single movable part is necessary for ensuring the functionality of the fluid actuator 10 of the invention. Furthermore it is sufficient if the supply line 310 allows for a sufficiently large cross-section for providing a volume flow of the pulsation at the outlet openings 24a and 24b. The control supply line 320 may present a clearly smaller cross-section, for in order to generate different control pressures at the control openings 64a and 64b it is possible to work with clearly lower volume flows.

(28) For fields of use where the pressurized air supply device 300 does not have any activity of its own or no controllable activity, an embodiment of FIG. 6 is advantageous. Thus it is advantageous, for example in a pressurized air supply device 300 having the form of an opening which draws pressurized air from an enveloping flow around a flow body, if the variable flow which can not be influenced actively is adapted to be controlled actively inside the blow-out device 200. The active control in the embodiment of FIG. 6 is effected in two ways or in two directions, respectively.

(29) On the one hand, throttle valves 69a and 69b are provided in both supply lines 310 and 320. With the aid of these throttle valves 69a and 69b it is possible to throttle the arriving fluid flow, i.e. to decelerate its velocity, or to minimize the volume flow. Vice versa it is also possible with the aid of compressors 67a and 67b arranged behindor contrary to the representation of FIG. 6 beforethe throttle valves 69a and 69b to increase the velocity of the fluid flow or to increase the volume flow, respectively. By means of these compressors 67a and 67b a pressure increase or an increase of the volume flow may be carried out. With corresponding sensors it is possible in this way for a substantially constant status to be adjusted and remain adjusted both in the control pressure varying device 60 and in the interaction chamber 30, in that the variation of the pressurized air supply device 300 may be compensated, as it were, by means of the combination of compressors 67a and 67b with the throttle valves 69a and 69b.

(30) FIG. 7 shows an alternative embodiment for FIG. 6. Here a throttle valve 69c is present in the control feed line 68 of the fluid actuator 10. Hereby the entire complexity, including the throttle valve 69c, is provided in the fluid actuator 10. The supply lines 310 and 320 may be configured in a correspondingly simple manner. The two embodiments of FIGS. 6 and 7 may, of course, also be combined with each other, so that throttle valves may be provided both in the supply lines 310 and 320 and also in the control feed line 68 and/or the feed line 40.

(31) If a more complex system is desired for a blow-out device 200 of the invention, in particular a system comprising a multiplicity of fluid actuators 10 of the present invention, then such a system may be expanded at will by providing central supply lines 310 and 320.

(32) An example of a corresponding outlet device 200 is represented in FIG. 8. In this case two fluid actuators 10 are arranged as an example of a multiplicity of fluid actuators 10, with two fluid actuators 10 being supplied with pressurized air by shared supply lines 310 and 320. The supply line 310 presents branchings into all of the supply lines 40, so that all interaction chambers 30 of all fluid actuators 10 may be supplied with pressurized air from one common supply line 310. Likewise, the control supply line 320 offers branchings into all control supply lines 68 of all fluid actuators 10, so that all of the control pressure varying devices may also be supplied with pressurized air from one common control supply line 320.

(33) This embodiment of FIG. 8 may even be simplified further, as is represented in FIG. 9. Here the two separate supply lines 310 and 320 were combined into a common supply line 315. From the latter two branchings per fluid actuator 10 of the invention are branched off, with one being the feed line 40 and the other one the control feed line 68 of the respective fluid actuator 10. As in such a case the fluid flow may also only be controlled or regulated jointly with regard to pressure and velocity in the common supply line 315 via a common throttle 69b and/or a common compressor 67b, it is advantageous in such a case if the individual supply lines furthermore offer separate possibilities of regulation.

(34) In FIG. 9 a throttle valve 69c is provided in each control feed line 68 for this possibility of regulation. Thus it is possible, despite a high volume flow rate and great pressure in the common supply line 315 which are sufficient to generate the required throughput in the feed line 40, to apply a clearly lower pressure and a clearly lower volume flow to the control feed line 68 via the throttle valve 69c. Hereby the loss for the feed line 40 due to the common supply of the common supply line 315 is minimized.

(35) FIGS. 10a and 10b show different variants of the control line outlet device 74a. The latter may differently be arranged in the respective control line 62. FIG. 10a shows a variant where an opening of the control line outlet device 74a is realized substantially concentrically with the control line 62a. In addition, in this embodiment the opening of the control line outlet device 74a is arranged substantially centrally inside the control line 62a. In this way the flow for the feedback line 74a may be drawn substantially centrally from the flow in the control line 62a, so that possible marginal effects in the control line 62a may be disregarded when applying a flow to the feedback line 72a. For this embodiment, however, a line is necessary which projects from the feedback line to the center of the control line 62a, as may be seen in FIG. 10a.

(36) FIG. 10b shows a variant where the control line outlet device 74a is arranged in a marginal portion of the control line 62a. Such an embodiment presents the advantage that only a low additional resistance is created, for apart from the wall of the control line outlet device 74a no additional resistance is required inside the control line 62a. The variant of FIG. 10b may be developed further to the effect that the flow around the opening of the control line inlet device 74a is adapted further to the aerodynamics in the control line 62a. In particular it is advantageous if the cross-sectional area of the opening of the control line outlet device 74a is limited to a minimum and gap-type areas as at the margins of the opening of the control line outlet device 74a in the version of FIG. 10b are avoided.

(37) It is self-evident that the described embodiments are merely examples which do not restrict the scope of the present invention. It is rather possible, whenever this is technically meaningful, to freely combine the technical possibilities of realization described for the individual embodiments among each other without departing from the framework of the present invention.

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(38) 10 fluid actuator 20 outlet device 22a outlet line 22b outlet line 24a outlet opening 24b outlet opening 30 interaction chamber 30a convexly curved wall 30b convexly curved wall 32a flow line 32b flow line 36 flow dividing device 40 feed line 60 control pressure varying device 62a control line 62b control line 62c control line 64a control opening 64b control opening 65 branching section 66 control flow dividing device 67a compressor 67b compressor 68 control feed line 69a throttle valve 69b throttle valve 72a feedback line 72b feedback line 74a control line outlet device 74b control line outlet device 76a control line inlet device 76b control line inlet device 200 blow-out device 300 pressurized air supply device 410 fluid actuator 420 outlet device 422a outlet line 422b outlet line 424a outlet opening 424b outlet opening 440 feed line 460 varying device 465 branching section 466 flow dividing device 472a feedback line 472b feedback line 474a outlet line outlet device 474b outlet line outlet device 476a outlet line inlet device 476b outlet line inlet device 500 flow body