Displacement adjusting device of swash plate pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10914294-B2
Application number	US-201616061503-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 8, 2016
Priority date	Dec 25, 2015
Publication date	Feb 9, 2021
Grant date	Feb 9, 2021

Abstract

A displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump includes: a tilting piston slidably inserted in a housing's accommodating hole, the tilting piston pressing the swash plate pump's swash plate; a sleeve forming a control pressure chamber between the sleeve and tilting piston, the sleeve including a pump port, tank port, and output port; a spool slidably held by the sleeve, the spool switching whether to bring output port into communication with one of the pump port and tank port or block the output port from the pump and tank port; a tilting spring urging the tilting piston and spool away from each other; and a solenoid including a rod that presses the spool from an opposite side to tilting spring. In the sleeve, reaction force chamber and communication passage are formed. The communication passage being a passage through which the control pressure chamber communicates with reaction force chamber.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump, the displacement adjusting device comprising:
a housing incorporated in a casing of the swash plate pump, the housing including an accommodating hole;
a tilting piston slidably inserted in the accommodating hole, the tilting piston pressing a swash plate of the swash plate pump;
a sleeve inserted in the accommodating hole and forming a control pressure chamber between the sleeve and the tilting piston, the sleeve including a pump port, a tank port, and an output port;
a spool slidably held by the sleeve, the spool switching whether to bring the output port into communication with one of the pump port and the tank port or block the output port from the pump port and the tank port;
a tilting spring disposed in the control pressure chamber, the tilting spring urging the tilting piston and the spool away from each other; and
a solenoid including a rod that presses the spool from an opposite side to the tilting spring, wherein
in the sleeve, a reaction force chamber and a communication passage are formed, the reaction force chamber being formed at an opposite side to the control pressure chamber, the communication passage being a passage through which the control pressure chamber communicates with the reaction force chamber,
in the housing, a first control pressure passage that communicates with the output port and a second control pressure passage that communicates with the control pressure chamber are formed, the first control pressure passage and the second control pressure passage each forming a part of a control pressure line that connects the output port to the control pressure chamber, and
the displacement adjusting device further comprises:
at least one additional-function valve provided on the control pressure line;
a bypass line that connects a part of the control pressure line upstream of the at least one additional-function valve and a part of the control pressure line downstream of the at least one additional-function valve; and
a check valve provided on the bypass line, the check valve allowing a flow from the part of the control pressure line upstream of the at least one additional-function valve toward the part of the control pressure line downstream of the at least one additional-function valve and preventing a reverse flow.

2. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 1 , wherein
the tilting piston presses the swash plate via a tilting pin that extends in a direction orthogonal to a swinging direction of the swash plate.

3. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 1 , wherein
the spool is configured to be pressed by the rod to bring the pump port into communication with the output port and block the tank port from the reaction force chamber when a current between a first setting value and a second setting value is supplied to the solenoid.

4. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 3 , wherein
the tilting piston presses the swash plate via a tilting pin that extends in a direction orthogonal to a swinging direction of the swash plate.

5. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 1 , wherein
the swash plate is urged by a swash plate spring from an opposite side of the swash plate relative to the tilting piston, and
the spool is configured to block the pump port and bring the tank port into communication with the reaction force chamber when no current is supplied to the solenoid.

6. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 5 , wherein
the spool is configured to be pressed by the rod to bring the pump port into communication with the output port and block the tank port from the reaction force chamber when a current between a first setting value and a second setting value is supplied to the solenoid.

7. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 6 , wherein
the tilting piston presses the swash plate via a tilting pin that extends in a direction orthogonal to a swinging direction of the swash plate.

8. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 5 , wherein
the tilting piston presses the swash plate via a tilting pin that extends in a direction orthogonal to a swinging direction of the swash plate.

9. A displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump, the displacement adjusting device comprising:
a housing incorporated in a casing of the swash plate pump, the housing including an accommodating hole;
a tilting piston slidably inserted in the accommodating hole, the tilting piston pressing a swash plate of the swash plate pump;
a sleeve inserted in the accommodating hole and forming a control pressure chamber between the sleeve and the tilting piston, the sleeve including a pump port, a tank port, and an output port;
a spool slidably held by the sleeve, the spool switching whether to bring the output port into communication with one of the pump port and the tank port or block the output port from the pump port and the tank port;
a tilting spring disposed in the control pressure chamber, the tilting spring urging the tilting piston and the spool away from each other; and
a solenoid including a rod that presses the spool from an opposite side to the tilting spring, wherein
in the sleeve, a reaction force chamber and a communication passage are formed, the reaction force chamber being formed at an opposite side to the control pressure chamber, the communication passage being a passage through which the control pressure chamber communicates with the reaction force chamber,
the swash plate is urged by a swash plate spring from an opposite side of the swash plate relative to the tilting piston, and
the spool is configured to block the pump port and bring the tank port into communication with the reaction force chamber when no current is supplied to the solenoid.

10. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 9 , wherein
the spool is configured to be pressed by the rod to bring the pump port into communication with the output port and block the tank port from the reaction force chamber when a current between a first setting value and a second setting value is supplied to the solenoid.

11. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 10 , wherein
the tilting piston presses the swash plate via a tilting pin that extends in a direction orthogonal to a swinging direction of the swash plate.

12. The displacement adjusting device of a swash plate pump according to claim 9 , wherein
the tilting piston presses the swash plate via a tilting pin that extends in a direction orthogonal to a swinging direction of the swash plate.

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Miura Hidetoshi
• Goto Masahiro

Classifications

• F04B1/2042 Primary

  Valves · CPC title

• F04B1/2064

  Housings · CPC title

• F04B1/124

  Pistons · CPC title

• F04B1/2078

  Swash plates · CPC title

• F05B2210/11

  liquid, i.e. incompressible · CPC title