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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2011
William Hugh Salvin Rampen, Edinburgh, GB;
Uwe Bernhard Pascal Stein, Edinburgh, GB;
Niall James Caldwell, Edinburgh, GB;
Stephen Michael Laird, Edinburgh, GB;
Pierre Robert Joly, Edinburgh, GB;
Michael Richard Fielding, Linlithgow, GB;
Daniil Sergeevich Dumnov, Edinburgh, GB;
William Hugh Salvin Rampen, Edinburgh, GB;
Uwe Bernhard Pascal Stein, Edinburgh, GB;
Niall James Caldwell, Edinburgh, GB;
Stephen Michael Laird, Edinburgh, GB;
Pierre Robert Joly, Edinburgh, GB;
Michael Richard Fielding, Linlithgow, GB;
Daniil Sergeevich Dumnov, Edinburgh, GB;
Artemis Intelligent Power Limited, Loanhead, GB;
Abstract
A fluid-working machine has a working chamber of cyclically varying volume, high and low pressure manifolds, and high and low pressure valves for regulating the flow of fluid between the working chamber and the high and low pressure manifolds respectively. A controller actively controls at least one said valve to determine the net displacement of working fluid of the working chamber on a cycle by cycle basis. At least one said valve is a variable timing valve and the controller causes the valve to open or close at a time determined taking into account one or more properties of the performance of the fluid working machine measured during an earlier cycle of working chamber volume.