Hydraulic arrangement and utility vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12338841-B2
Application number	US-202418812274-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2024
Priority date	Sep 13, 2023
Publication date	Jun 24, 2025
Grant date	Jun 24, 2025

Abstract

A hydraulic arrangement for a utility vehicle. The arrangement may include a hydraulic displacement pump which is connected via a pump output to a supply connection as a hydraulic interface for supplying hydraulic consumers of the utility vehicle. In addition, the device may include a hydraulic auxiliary pump and an auxiliary supply connection as a hydraulic interface for alternatively supplying at least some of the consumers. The device may include a displacement control unit which is dependent on an output pressure of the auxiliary pump for displacing the displacement pump in such a manner that a hydraulic working connection of a displacement cylinder of the displacement control unit is connected to an output of the auxiliary pump.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A hydraulic arrangement for a utility vehicle, the hydraulic arrangement comprising:
a hydraulic displacement pump which is connected via a pump output to a supply connection as a hydraulic interface for supplying hydraulic consumers of the utility vehicle;
a hydraulic auxiliary pump and an auxiliary supply connection as a hydraulic interface for alternatively supplying at least some of the consumers;
a displacement control unit which is dependent on an output pressure of the auxiliary pump for displacing the displacement pump in such a manner that a hydraulic working connection of a displacement cylinder of the displacement control unit is connected to an output of the auxiliary pump; and
a retention valve unit which has two different switching positions being hydraulically connected in a throughflow path between the working connection of the displacement cylinder and a return connection and the pump output in such a manner that the retention valve unit acts as a hydraulic interruption or as a hydraulic connection in the throughflow path depending on the activated switching position thereof;
wherein the retention valve unit has, in the throughflow path at the connection side thereof facing away from the working connection of the displacement cylinder, a hydraulic valve connection which can be connected to the pump output in accordance with an output pressure of the displacement pump.

2. The hydraulic arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the displacement cylinder includes a single-acting displacement cylinder.

3. The hydraulic arrangement of claim 1 , wherein a non-return valve is hydraulically connected upstream of the working connection in the throughflow path between the output of the auxiliary pump and the working connection of the displacement cylinder, wherein a throughflow direction of the non-return valve is orientated in the direction of the working connection.

4. The hydraulic arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the retention valve unit has a control pressure input which is active in a switching direction and which is hydraulically connected to the valve connection.

5. The hydraulic arrangement of claim 1 , wherein at least one valve unit which has a plurality of switching positions and which has two hydraulic control inputs which are opposite each other in a switching direction is arranged in the throughflow path between the working connection or the retention valve unit, on the one hand, and a return connection and the pump output, on the other hand, wherein one of the two hydraulic control inputs is hydraulically connected to the pump output and the other of the two hydraulic control inputs is either hydraulically connected to the return connection or is hydraulically connected to a feedback connection which acts as an interface for a pressure feedback of consumers.

6. The hydraulic arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the hydraulic arrangement has at least one of the following features with an increasing output pressure at the output of the auxiliary pump after reaching or exceeding a predetermined desired pressure at the output of the auxiliary pump:
the retention valve unit is in the switching position thereof which acts as a hydraulic connection in the throughflow path,
a drive of the auxiliary pump is reduced or deactivated, or
the displacement pump is driven.

7. The hydraulic arrangement of claim 1 , wherein a pressure sensor which generates sensor signals is hydraulically connected to the output of the auxiliary pump, wherein in accordance with the sensor signals at least one of 1) a drive of the auxiliary pump can be controlled or 2) the retention valve unit can be controlled in order to change the switching position thereof.

8. A utility vehicle, comprising:
a drive motor; and
a hydraulic arrangement including:
a hydraulic displacement pump which is connected via a pump output to a supply connection as a hydraulic interface for supplying hydraulic consumers of the utility vehicle;
a hydraulic auxiliary pump and an auxiliary supply connection as a hydraulic interface for alternatively supplying at least some of the consumers;
a displacement control unit which is dependent on an output pressure of the auxiliary pump for displacing the displacement pump in such a manner that a hydraulic working connection of a displacement cylinder of the displacement control unit is connected to an output of the auxiliary pump; and
a pressure sensor which generates sensor signals being hydraulically connected to the output of the auxiliary pump, wherein in accordance with the sensor signals at least one of 1) a drive of the auxiliary pump can be controlled or 2) a retention valve unit can be controlled in order to change a switching position thereof.

9. The utility vehicle of claim 8 , wherein the drive motor is drivingly connected to the displacement pump.

10. The utility vehicle of claim 8 , wherein the auxiliary supply connection is hydraulically connected to at least one of a brake system or a steering system of the utility vehicle.

11. A hydraulic arrangement for a utility vehicle, the hydraulic arrangement comprising:
a hydraulic displacement pump which is connected via a pump output to a supply connection as a hydraulic interface for supplying hydraulic consumers of the utility vehicle;
a hydraulic auxiliary pump and an auxiliary supply connection as a hydraulic interface for alternatively supplying at least some of the consumers;
a displacement control unit which is dependent on an output pressure of the auxiliary pump for displacing the displacement pump in such a manner that a hydraulic working connection of a displacement cylinder of the displacement control unit is connected to an output of the auxiliary pump; and
a pressure sensor which generates sensor signals being hydraulically connected to the output of the auxiliary pump, wherein in accordance with the sensor signals at least one of 1) a drive of the auxiliary pump can be controlled or 2) a retention valve unit can be controlled in order to change a switching position thereof.

Assignees

• Deere & Co

Inventors

• Billich Manuel
• Meid Michael

Classifications

• B62D5/32

  for telemotor systems · CPC title

• B60T2270/413

  Plausibility monitoring, cross check, redundancy · CPC title

• B60T17/221

  Procedure or apparatus for checking or keeping in a correct functioning condition of brake systems (hydraulic pressure systems in general F15B19/00, F15B21/04; testing structures or apparatus G01M) · CPC title

• B60R16/08 Primary

  fluid · CPC title

• B62D5/064

  Pump driven independently from vehicle engine, e.g. electric driven pump (B62D5/065 takes precedence) · CPC title