Damping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10024478-B2
Application number	US-201514625663-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2015
Priority date	Apr 24, 2014
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

A damping device damps or prevents pressure shocks, such as pulsations, in hydraulic supply circuits, preferably in the form of a silencer, and has a damping housing ( 1 ) surrounding a damping chamber ( 19 ), with a fluid inlet ( 11 ) and a fluid outlet ( 13 ). A fluid receiving chamber ( 19 ) extends between the fluid inlet and fluid outlet. During operation of the device, a fluid flow coming from the fluid inlet ( 11 ) in a through-flow direction ( 15 ) traverses the damping chamber ( 19 ) toward the fluid outlet ( 13 ). Parts of the fluid receiving chamber ( 19 ) extend in a direction transverse to the through-flow direction ( 15 ). The fluid receiving chamber ( 19 ) is located directly adjacent to the fluid inlet ( 11 ) and the fluid outlet ( 13 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A damping device for damping pressure shocks in hydraulic supply circuits, the damping device comprising:
a damping housing surrounding a damping chamber;
a fluid inlet in said damping housing directly adjacent to and connected to said damping chamber in fluid communication;
a fluid outlet in said damping housing directly adjacent to and connected to said damping chamber in fluid communication, said damping chamber extending between said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet such that a fluid flow from said fluid inlet in a through-flow direction traverses said damping chamber in a direction of said fluid outlet;
parts of said damping chamber extending in at least one direction of extension transverse to the through-flow direction; and
planar and parallel first and second partition walls defining opposite sides of said damping chamber an entire extent thereof between said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet, opposite transverse cross-sectional portions of said fluid inlet and said outlet being axially aligned with respective planes of the respective partition walls, said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet having equal cross-sectional diameters equal to a distance spacing said partition walls.

2. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
said damping chamber comprises a disk-shaped hollow space in said damping housing.

3. A damping device according to claim 2 wherein
said hollow space is at least one of cylindrical or polygon.

4. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
said damping chamber is free of damping elements between said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet.

5. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
said damping housing comprises a pot-shaped bottom part and a cover part being a flange, said bottom part having said damping chamber formed by a central recess therein, by said first partition wall, by said fluid inlet and by said fluid outlet, said cover part having said second partition wall on an engagement connection thereof received in said central recess.

6. A damping device according to claim 5 wherein
said engagement connection comprises a circumferential groove with a sealing ring disposed thereon, said sealing ring sealing said damping chamber from an environment on an exterior of said damping housing.

7. A damping device according to claim 5 wherein
said cover part comprises multiple through-bores radially spaced from a central axis of said damping chamber; and
fixing screws extend through said bores and engage said bottom part affixing said cover part and said bottom part.

8. A damping device according to claim 7 wherein
said fixing screws are disposed uniformly along an outer periphery of said damping housing, said outer periphery encompassing said damping chamber while leaving areas of said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet exposed.

9. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
said fluid inlet comprises a seating receiving a sealing ring encompassing said fluid inlet; and
said fluid outlet comprises a seating receiving a sealing ring encompassing said fluid outlet.

10. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
at least one of said fluid inlet or said fluid outlet having fixing bolts in a surrounding area thereof making said damping housing affixable to another component.

11. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
said partition walls are rigid and fixed.

12. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
said damping housing comprises a bottom part with said first partition wall and with a peripheral wall and comprises cover part with a flange overlying said peripheral wall and with said second partition wall; and
said first inlet and said fluid outlet extend through said peripheral wall.

13. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
said equal cross-sectional diameters of said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet are constant along entire lengths thereof.

14. A damping device according to claim 1 wherein
said equal cross-sectional diameters of said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet are at openings thereof directly into said damping chamber.

15. A damping device for damping pressure shocks in hydraulic supply circuits, the damping device comprising:
a damping housing surrounding a damping chamber;
a fluid inlet in said damping housing directly adjacent to and connected to said damping chamber in fluid communication, said fluid inlet having an inlet cross-sectional diameter;
a fluid outlet in said damping housing directly adjacent to and connected to said damping chamber in fluid communication, said fluid outlet having an outlet cross-sectional diameter, said damping chamber extending between said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet such that a fluid flow from said fluid inlet in a through-flow direction traverses said damping chamber in a direction of said fluid outlet;
fixed sidewalls extending between said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet defining a lateral periphery of said damping chamber, and being spaced apart in directions perpendicular to the through-flow direction by distances greater than said cross-sectional diameters; and
planar, parallel and fixed first and second partition walls defining opposite sides of said damping chamber an entire extent thereof between said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet, opposite transverse cross-sectional portions of said fluid inlet and said outlet being axially aligned with the respective partition walls, said damping chamber defined only by said fixed sidewalls and said partition walls, said inlet and said outlet cross-sectional diameters being each equal to a distance spacing said partition walls.

16. A damping device according to claim 15 wherein
said damping chamber comprises a disk-shaped hollow space in said damping housing.

17. A damping device according to claim 16 wherein
said hollow space is at least one of cylindrical or polygon.

18. A damping device according to claim 15 wherein
said damping chamber is free of structures between sidewalls and said partition walls.

19. A damping device according to claim 15 wherein
said damping housing comprises a pot-shaped bottom part and a cover part being a flange, said bottom part having said damping chamber formed by a central recess therein, by said first partition wall, by said fluid inlet and by said fluid outlet, said cover part having said second partition wall on an engagement connection thereof received in said central recess.

20. A damping device according to claim 19 wherein
said engagement connection comprises a circumferential groove with a sealing ring disposed thereon, said sealing ring sealing said damping chamber from an environment on an exterior of said damping housing.

21. A damping device according to claim 19 wherein
said cover part comprises multiple through-bores radially spaced from a central axis of said damping chamber; and
fixing screws extend through said bores and engage said bottom part affixing said cover part and said bottom part.

22. A damping device according to claim 21 wherein
said fixing screws are disposed uniformly along an outer periphery of said damping housing, said outer periphery encompassing said damping chamber while leaving areas of said fluid inlet and said fluid outlet exposed.

23. A damping device according to claim 15 wherein
said damping housing comprises a bottom part with said first partition wall and with a peripheral wall and comprises cover part with a flang

Assignees

• Hydac Technology Gmbh
• Airbus Operations Gmbh

Inventors

• Kloft Peter
• Behr Robert Marinus
• Waitschat Arne
• Thielecke Frank

Classifications

• F16L55/041

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• E04B1/0015

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