Pump displacement control for a variable displacement pump

Abstract

A pump displacement control for a variable displacement pump includes a torque control valve serially disposed between a remotely controllable displacement control valve and a variable torque limiter in axial alignment within a common bore. A displacement control sleeve is disposed within the bore for normally controlling the fluid pressure in an actuating chamber of an actuator connected to a swashplate of the pump when the pump discharge pressure is below a predetermined high pressure. The torque control valve assumes control of pump displacement when the pump discharge pressure exceeds the predetermined high pressure and includes a sleeve and a valve spool movable relative to each other to establish a first condition communicating discharge pressure into the actuator chamber to move the swashplate toward a minimum displacement position or a second condition communicating the actuating chamber with an exhaust passage so that the swashplate is moved toward its maximum displacement position. A feedback piston continuously subjected to pump discharge pressure moves the valve spool in a direction to establish the first condition when discharge pressure exceeds the predetermined high pressure. The feedback piston is disposed in axial alignment with the valve spool within an insert disposed within the displacement control sleeve. The predetermined high pressure is varied by increasing or decreasing the level of a control pressure directed into a bore receiving a piston acting on the opposite end of the valve spool.