Hydraulic actuator and method for operating a hydraulic actuator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10330125-B2
Application number	US-201515329298-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2015
Priority date	Jul 30, 2014
Publication date	Jun 25, 2019
Grant date	Jun 25, 2019

Abstract

The hydraulic actuator comprises: a hydraulic input cylinder having an input piston; a hydraulic output cylinder, which is hydraulically coupled to the input cylinder; and a pressure-limiting valve, which limits the output cylinder with respect to pressure in dependence on the usability of a force on the input piston. The method is a method for operating such a hydraulic actuator, wherein the drive actuator is deflected with deflections having a deflection duration at a deflection frequency for the duration of an acting or a non-acting phase of the hydraulic actuator, wherein the deflection duration defines a movement stiffness of the hydraulic actuator and the deflection frequency defines the resulting deflection speed of the hydraulic actuator.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hydraulic actuator comprising:
a hydraulic drive cylinder with a drive piston provided therein;
a hydraulic output cylinder hydraulically coupled to the hydraulic drive cylinder; and
a pressure-limiting valve configured to limit a hydraulic pressure on the hydraulic output cylinder depending on an action time of a force on the hydraulic drive cylinder, the drive piston, or the hydraulic drive cylinder and the drive piston,
wherein the hydraulic drive cylinder is hydraulically coupled, by a non-return valve and a first throttle, to a prestressing volume located in a prestressing hydraulic cylinder via a prestressing piston, and
wherein the prestressing hydraulic cylinder or the prestressing piston actuates the pressure-limiting valve.

2. The hydraulic actuator of claim 1 , wherein the prestressing volume is hydraulically connected to a reservoir via a second throttle.

3. The hydraulic actuator of claim 1 , wherein the pressure-limiting valve is configured to limit pressure in relation to a reservoir or for releasing pressure into the reservoir.

4. The hydraulic actuator of claim 1 , wherein an output piston is guided in the hydraulic output cylinder.

5. The hydraulic actuator of claim 1 , wherein the hydraulic drive cylinder is coupled to the hydraulic output cylinder via a prestressed non-return valve.

6. The hydraulic actuator of claim 1 , further comprising:
a drive actuator coupled in terms of movement to the hydraulic drive cylinder or to the drive piston.

7. The hydraulic actuator of claim 6 , wherein the drive actuator comprises a piezo actuator, an electrodynamic actuator, or an electromagnetic actuator.

8. A method for operating a hydraulic actuator, the hydraulic actuator comprising a hydraulic drive cylinder with a drive piston, a drive actuator coupled in terms of movement to the hydraulic drive cylinder or the drive piston, and a pressure-limiting valve, wherein the hydraulic drive cylinder is hydraulically coupled, by a non-return valve and a first throttle, to a prestressing volume located in a prestressing hydraulic cylinder via a prestressing piston, the method comprising:
limiting, by the pressure-limiting valve of the hydraulic actuator, a hydraulic pressure on the hydraulic output cylinder depending on an action time of a force on the hydraulic drive cylinder, the drive piston, or the hydraulic drive cylinder and the drive piston;
actuating the pressure-limiting valve by the prestressing hydraulic cylinder or the prestressing piston; and
deflecting the drive actuator, the deflection having a deflection period at a deflection frequency for a duration of an operating or non-operating phase of the hydraulic actuator,
wherein the deflection period defines a movement stiffness of the hydraulic actuator, and the deflection frequency defines a resulting deflection rate of the hydraulic actuator.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the drive actuator is electrically controllable.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the drive actuator comprises a piezo actuator, an electrodynamic actuator, or an electromagnetic actuator.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the drive actuator is coupled in terms of movement to a hydraulic actuator of the drive piston.

Assignees

• Siemens Ag
• Metismotion Gmbh

Inventors

• Bachmaier Georg
• Gödecke Andreas
• Vontz Thomas
• Zöls Wolfgang

Classifications

• F15B7/08 Primary

  Input units; Master units · CPC title

• F15B1/26

  Supply reservoir or sump assemblies · CPC title

• H02N2/043

  Mechanical transmission means, e.g. for stroke amplification · CPC title

• F15B13/024

  Pressure relief valves · CPC title

• F15B15/149

  Fluid interconnections, e.g. fluid connectors, passages · CPC title