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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1988
John C Richards, Mason, OH (US);
Joseph P Smith, Jr, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
The invention concerns a system for distributing fluid pressure to several fluidic motors from a common location. At the common location, a source pipe, which acts as the source of fluid pressure, travels past, and couples with, each pipe in a group of receiver pipes in sequence. Pressure in the source pipe is controlled so that the pressure is proper for each receiver pipe with which the source pipe couples. The receiver pipes connect with fluidic motors. Accordingly, a single control apparatus, located near the source pipe, is used and the pressure and flow from the source pipe is time-multiplexed and transmitted to the fluidic motors.