Artemis Intelligent Power Limited

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Danfoss Power Solutions Aps

Danfoss Scotland Limited

Uwe Stein

Jens Eilers

Masayuki Shimizu

Stephen Michael Laird

Niall James Caldwell

Toshikazu Hayashi

Takuro Kameda

Daigo Watanabe

Gordon Paul Voller

Kazuhisa Tsutsumi

Matthew Green

Fergus Robert McIntyre

Hauke Karstens

Atsushi Maekawa

Daniil Sergeevich Dumnov

Onno Kuttler

William Rampen

Jack Samuel Lavender

Toshihide Noguchi

Haruhiko Hirano

Shinji Kawabata

Callan MacKay

Henry Dodson

Noguchi Toshihide

Yasuhiro Korematsu

Alasdair Robertson

Stephen Laird

Venkata Pappala

Stephen Salter

Robert Fox

Luke Wadesly

Alexis Dole

Jill Macpherson

Paul Marshall

Jeremie Lagarde

Michiya Uchida

Fergus Mcintyre

John Stevenson

Alex Rampen

Syogo Furukawa

Tom Mcgrath

Shashank Gupta

Andrius Gonestas

Jamie Taylor

Michael Fielding

A hydraulic apparatus has a plurality of pump modules each of which is formed by a plurality of working chambers having a common high pressure manifold. A connecting circuit switchably connects pump modules to first and second hydraulic circuit portions to allocate capacity as first and second demands for hydraulic fluid vary. In an apparatus which may have two or more connecting circuit outputs, valves may be controlled or working chamber pumping cycles made inactive to facilitate the reallocation of a pump module from one output to another, and a control strategy addresses pump module allocation when the demands for hydraulic fluid exceed available capacity.

Hydraulic apparatus and operating method

An apparatus comprising a synthetically commutated machine with one or more services, a prime mover coupled to the machine, a hydraulic circuit extending between the services and hydraulic loads to fluidically connect the services to the hydraulic loads such that groups of one or more services are fluidically connected to respective groups of one or more hydraulic loads. The apparatus configured such that the flow of hydraulic fluid to or from a group of services of the machine is controlled responsive to measuring a flow rate and/or pressure requirement of the hydraulic loads which are fluidically connected to the services, or receiving a demand signal indicative of a demanded pressure and/or flow rate based on a pressure and/or flow demand of hydraulic loads which are fluidically connected to the services.

Hydraulic apparatus comprising synthetically commutated machine, and operating method

A fluid working machine has at least one working chamber of cyclically varying volume and low and high pressure valves to regulate the flow of working fluid into and out of the working chamber, from low and high pressure manifolds. The low and high pressure valves are actuated by electronically controlled valve actuation means which, when actuated, applies forces to the low and high pressure valve members to open and/or close the respective valves. The low and high pressure valve members are independently moveable and, although the low pressure valve member typically begins to move quickly in response to a shared valve control signal, the high pressure valve member typically moves only after a change in the pressure within the working chamber. The electronically controlled valve actuation means may be a shared electronically controlled valve actuator, such as a solenoid within a magnetic circuit which directs magnetic flux through both low pressure and high pressure valve armatures which are connected to the respective valve members.

Fluid working machine with valve actuator and method for controlling the same

A valve unit for regulating the flow of working fluid between a working chamber of a fluid working machine and both a first working fluid line and second working fluid line, the valve unit comprising: a first valve comprising a first valve member and one or more cooperating first valve seats, a second valve comprising a second valve member and one or more cooperating second valve seats, an actuator coupled to both the first and second valve members through which a force may be applied to urge the first valve member open or closed and to urge the second valve member open or closed, a coupling between the actuator and the first valve member, wherein the coupling between the actuator and the first valve member comprises a connector which extends at least partially through the second valve member.

Valve unit and a fluid working machine comprising a valve unit

Disclosed is a cylinder assembly for a fluid-working machine. The assembly includes a body having a first end and a second end. The body further includes a cylinder, a poppet valve seat and a face-sealing annular valve seat. The cylinder is open to the first end and configured to receive a reciprocating piston. The poppet and annular valve seats extend around an axis through the cylinder. An annular valve including the annular valve seat and an annular valve member extends around the cylinder. Thus, the cylinder assembly is compact.

Cylinder assembly for fluid working machine

In a face sealing annular valve, an annular valve member is retained around or within a guide. The annular valve member is configured so that, when the annular valve member and the annular valve seat are coaxial, the spacing between the guide means and the guide-engaging surface region increases with distance along the central axis from a minimum of spacing between the annular valve member and the guide means. An end stop limits the tilt of the annular valve member. Advantageously, the annular valve member has restricted radial movement, enabling a good seal to be formed, while being unable to simultaneously contact diametrically opposite sides of the guide and jam.

Face sealing annular valve

A face sealing annular valve () for a fluid-working machine has an annular valve member () having a relaxed configuration in which a first seat-engaging surface () of the annular valve member can sealedly engage with a first sealing surface of an annular valve seat (), but a second seat-engaging surface () cannot sealedly engage with a second sealing surface (), and is elastically deformable to a deformed configuration in which the second seat-engaging surface can sealedly engage with a second sealing surface, while the first seat-engaging surface remains sealedly engaged with the first sealing surface. The annular valve member can be made with relatively high tolerances and is only loosely retained by a guide in the relaxed configuration.

Face sealing annular valve for a fluid-working machine

Fluid working machine

In usual hydraulic pumps, a separate assembly opening is provided for every valve of the hydraulic pump. This design causes sealing problems. It is proposed, that the fluid inlet valve and the fluid outlet valve can be assembled through a common assembly access port. Further, the fluid inlet valve and the fluid outlet valve can be arranged around a common cavity, or even within the same cavity, via the common assembly access port in the fluid working machine's body.

A hydraulic pump unit includes a cylindrical member that is fit into an outer circumference of the main shaft and a hydraulic pump body arranged on an outer circumferential side of the cylindrical member. The hydraulic pump body includes a ring cam mounted on the outer circumference of the cylindrical member, a pump bearing, a pump housing, a plurality of pistons housed in the pump housing and actuated by the ring cam, and a plurality of cylinders which guide the plurality of pistons in a radial direction and are arranged in a circumferential direction. The hydraulic pump unit is configured such that the pump unit is insertably fixed to the main shaft by the cylindrical member.

Hydraulic pump structure for wind turbine generator or tidal current generator and method of mounting hydraulic pump

An object of the present invention is to provide a wind turbine generator and a tidal current generator equipped with a hydraulic transmission with a combination of a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor and which has a superior productivity and maintainability. The wind turbine generatorhas the hydraulic transmissionfor transmitting the rotation energy of a main shaftto a generator. The hydraulic transmissionincludes a hydraulic pumpof variable displacement type which is driven by the main shaft, a hydraulic motorof variable displacement type which is connected to the generator, and a high pressure oil line and a low pressure oil line which are arranged between the hydraulic pumpand the hydraulic motor. The hydraulic transmissionis at least partially constituted of a plurality of modules (Mto M).

Wind turbine generator and tidal current generator with a hydraulic transmission

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