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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1976
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1973
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerald K Oxley, Lafayette, IN (US);
Harold K Clendenen, Lafayette, IN (US);
Assignee:
TRW Inc., Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F15B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
91412 ; 60422 ; 60426 ; 137101 ;
Abstract
A flow divider for directing hydraulic fluid to separate hydraulic circuits, including a power steering gear which carries the divider, includes a pair of axially aligned valve spools disposed in a common bore of a valve housing. The valve spools and the bore have circumferential grooves which are in fluid communication with a source of pressurized fluid and the separate hydraulic circuits and the flow divider operates to divide the flow of pressurized fluid into two portions with a predetermined ratio between each portion and the total fluid flow.