Hydraulic pump of the axial piston type
AssigneeMitsubishi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKuniyasu Nagatomo, Masato Hiromatsu
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Abstract
A hydraulic pump of the axial piston type comprising check valves each of which is adapted to open and allow the associated cylinder to discharge fluid when the pressure inside the cylinder has been raised above the discharge pressure of the pump by the piston on its compression stroke, passage means for communicating each of the cylinders with the low-pressure system including a pump suction pipe or drain tank during the period in which the piston on the compression stroke moves from a point at least short of the top dead center to a point past the center and where the cylinder communicates with the suction port, and pressure-reducing means disposed in the passage means.
Claims13
A hydraulic axial piston pump comprising means defining a plurality of cylinders each having therein a piston reciprocably movable between a top dead center position and a bottom dead center position to effect a compression stroke and a suction stroke, said piston completing its compression stroke at said top dead center position, discharge means for said pump for discharging fluid from said cylinders during the compression stroke of their associated pistons, check valve means within said discharge means, said check valve means comprising a check valve for each of said cylinders adapted to open and allow the associated cylinder to discharge fluid when the pressure within the cylinder has been raised above the discharge pressure of said pump by an associated piston on its compression stroke, passage means for communicating each of said cylinders with a low pressure system during a period in which the piston associated with said cylinder moves from a point preceding its top dead center position to a point past its top dead center position where said cylinder communicates with a suction port of said pump, and pressure reducing means disposed in said passage means.
In a variable-delivery hydraulic pump of the type having a valve plate and a cylinder block defining piston chambers therein and adapted to rotate in sliding contact with said valve plate, the improvement wherein said valve plate is formed with an arcuate suction port, said cylinder block having a plurality of pads arranged between said cylinders and said valve plate, each of said pads being directly pressed against the valve plate by pressure within an associated piston chamber in such a manner that the pad on the suction stroke establishes communication between the piston chamber and the arcuate suction port, said cylinder block having discharge ports extending centripetally from the cylinders and opening into a centrally located discharge passage, and check valves installed in the discharge ports, each of the valves being adapted to open when the pressure inside the associated piston chamber exceeds the discharge pressure on the discharge stroke, said discharge ports from the piston chamber and said discharge outlet being communicated to a low pressure system of said pump by discharge passage means having pressure reducing orifice means therein provided at a point at least short of the point where an advancing piston reaches its top dead center position.
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