Hydraulic flushing valve arrangement

Abstract

A hydraulic flushing valve arrangement includes a flushing valve having a housing, flushing piston, and at least one spring. The housing includes a valve bore, two circular housing control edges, two inlet channels fluidically connected to the bore, and an outlet channel opening into the bore between the inlet channels. The piston includes two control collars, a piston neck, and piston control edges that delimit the collars from the neck, and that have circular shapes with a recess. The recess has a portion that, in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to an axis of the piston, is constant and sized such that a flushing quantity is reduced when the portion of the recess is situated in a region of a corresponding housing control edge relative to a quantity when the piston is in an end position. The collars guide the piston so as to be longitudinally displaceable in the bore, and are spaced apart by the neck. The piston and control edges are configured to control the fluidic connections between the bore, the inlet channels, and the outlet channel. The spring preloads the piston in a middle position whereat the outlet channel is blocked from the inlet channels. The piston is configured to move out of the middle position in response to a specific difference between pressures of the two inlet channels. The control collars are respectively configured to open the fluidic connection between a corresponding inlet channel in which a lower pressure prevails and the outlet channel. Such a flushing valve arrangement is usable in hydrostatic travel drives in which two hydromachines are operated in a closed hydraulic circuit.