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US 2018/0003197 A1Published application
Accumulator and method of making and using the same
AssigneeBorgWarner Inc.
InventorsBrett PEGLOWSKI, Mitsuru ISHIHARA
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Abstract
A number of variations may include a fluid accumulator comprising, a housing and at least one movable piston wherein the piston separates an interior of the housing into a first chamber constructed and arranged for containing a first fluid, and a second chamber constructed and arranged for containing a second fluid, and wherein the first chamber has an first fluid opening and a first fluid exhaust constructed and arranged to expel excess first fluid from the fluid accumulator and prevent first fluid from entering the second chamber.
Claims20
A product comprising:
- a fluid accumulator comprising, a housing and at least one movable piston wherein the piston separates an interior of the housing into a first chamber constructed and arranged for containing a first fluid, and a second chamber constructed and arranged for containing a second fluid, and wherein the first chamber has a first fluid opening and a first fluid exhaust constructed and arranged to expel excess first fluid from the fluid accumulator and prevent first fluid from entering the second chamber.
A method comprising:
- providing a fluid accumulator comprising, a housing comprising an opening and at least one movable piston wherein the piston separates an interior of the housing into a first chamber constructed and arranged for containing a first fluid, and a second chamber constructed and arranged for containing a second fluid, and wherein the first chamber has an opening and an exhaust constructed and arranged to expel excess fluid wherein the first chamber;
- moving first fluid into the first chamber to displace the piston;
- and
- expelling excess first fluid through the exhaust when the pressure provided in the second chamber is exceeded by the pressure provided by the first fluid at a certain value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.