Pressure intensifying apparatus for hydraulic cylinder

A pressure intensifying apparatus for a hydraulic cylinder comprising:

• a working cylinder;
• a pressure intensifying cylinder for allowing a pressure intensifying chamber to communicate with a rod-side cylinder chamber of said working cylinder;
• a switching valve for controlling supply and discharge of a hydraulic fluid with respect to a head-side port and a rod-side port of said working cylinder;
• a first pilot check valve which is disposed in a rod-side supply and discharge circuit for connecting said rod-side port of said working cylinder to said switching valve and whose pilot pressure is a pressure of a head-side supply and discharge circuit for connecting said head-side port of said working cylinder to said switching valve;
• a check-valve equipped sequence valve which is disposed in a connection circuit for connecting a drive chamber side of said pressure intensifying cylinder to a portion of said rod-side supply and discharge circuit closer to said switching valve than said first pilot check valve, and switches from a closed state to an open state with a rated pressure of a hydraulic pump for supplying said hydraulic fluid to said rod-side supply and discharge circuit via said switching valve;
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• a second pilot check valve whose pilot pressure is said pressure of said head-side supply and discharge circuit,
• said working cylinder, said pressure intensifying cylinder, said switching valve, said first pilot check valve, said check-valve equipped sequence valve and said second pilot check valve being connected in series in such a way as to satisfy K>PLb/Pp where K is a pressure intensifying ratio of said pressure intensifying cylinder, Pp is said rated pressure of said hydraulic pump and PLb is a pressure in said rod-side cylinder chamber when a maximum load occurring after Pp is balanced with a load acting on a piston rod of said working cylinder in a piston-rod reversing step of said working cylinder is applied, and ΔV=(PLb−Pp)×Vb×β where ΔV is a maximum discharge volume of said pressure intensifying chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder, Vb is a volume of said rod-side cylinder chamber when balance is held and β is a compressibility of said hydraulic fluid.

A pressure intensifying apparatus for a hydraulic cylinder comprising:

• a working cylinder;
• a pressure intensifying cylinder for allowing a pressure intensifying chamber to communicate with a head-side cylinder chamber of said working cylinder;
• a switching valve for controlling supply and discharge of a hydraulic fluid with respect to a head-side port and a rod-side port of said working cylinder;
• a pilot check valve which is disposed in a head-side supply and discharge circuit for connecting said head-side port of said working cylinder to said switching valve and whose pilot pressure is a pressure of a rod-side supply and discharge circuit for connecting said rod-side port of said working cylinder to said switching valve;
• a pressure sensor for detecting a pressure in said head-side cylinder chamber of said working cylinder;
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• pressure intensification control means for controlling supply and discharge of said hydraulic fluid to and from a drive chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder using a detection signal from said pressure sensor in a piston-rod advancing step of said working cylinder, wherein K>PLa/Pp is satisfied where K is a pressure intensifying ratio of said pressure intensifying cylinder, Pp is a rated pressure of a hydraulic pump and PLa is a pressure in said head-side cylinder chamber when a maximum load occurring after Pp is balanced with a load acting on a piston rod of said working cylinder in a piston-rod advancing step of said working cylinder is applied, and ΔV≧(PLa−Pp)×Va×β where ΔV is a maximum discharge volume of said pressure intensifying chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder, Va is a volume of said head-side cylinder chamber when balance is held and β is a compressibility of said hydraulic fluid, and said pressure intensification control means supplies said hydraulic fluid to said drive chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder when Sr>Ss≧Sp where Ss is a level of said detection signal from said pressure sensor, Sp is a level of an output signal corresponding to Pp and Sr is a level of an output signal corresponding to PLa, and discharges said hydraulic fluid from said drive chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder when Ss>Sr.

A pressure intensifying apparatus for a hydraulic cylinder comprising:

• a working cylinder;
• a pressure intensifying cylinder for allowing a pressure intensifying chamber to communicate with a rod-side cylinder chamber of said working cylinder;
• a switching valve for controlling supply and discharge of a hydraulic fluid with respect to a head-side port and a rod-side port of said working cylinder;
• a pilot check valve which is disposed in a rod-side supply and discharge circuit for connecting said rod-side port of said working cylinder to said switching valve and whose pilot pressure is a pressure of a head-side supply and discharge circuit for connecting said head-side port of said working cylinder to said switching valve;
• a pressure sensor for detecting a pressure in said rod-side cylinder chamber of said working cylinder;
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• pressure intensification control means for controlling supply and discharge of said hydraulic fluid to and from a drive chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder using a detection signal from said pressure sensor in a piston-rod reversing step of said working cylinder, wherein K>PLb/Pp is satisfied where K is a pressure intensifying ratio of said pressure intensifying cylinder, Pp is a rated pressure of a hydraulic pump and PLb is a pressure in said rod-side cylinder chamber when a maximum load occurring after Pp is balanced with a load acting on a piston rod of said working cylinder in a piston-rod reversing step of said working cylinder is applied, and ΔV>(PLb−Pp)×Vb×β where ΔV is a maximum discharge volume of said pressure intensifying chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder, Vb is a volume of said rod-side cylinder chamber when balance is held and β is a compressibility of said hydraulic fluid, and said pressure intensification control means supplies said hydraulic fluid to said drive chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder when Sr>Ss≧Sp where Ss is a level of said detection signal from said pressure sensor, Sp is a level of an output signal corresponding to Pp and Sr is a level of an output signal corresponding to PLb, and discharges said hydraulic fluid from said drive chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder when Ss>Sr.

A pressure intensifying apparatus for a hydraulic cylinder comprising:

• a working cylinder;
• a pressure intensifying cylinder for allowing a pressure intensifying chamber to communicate with a head-side cylinder chamber of said working cylinder;
• a switching valve for controlling supply and discharge of a hydraulic fluid with respect to a head-side port and a rod-side port of said working cylinder;
• a pilot check valve which is disposed in a head-side supply and discharge circuit for connecting said head-side port of said working cylinder to said switching valve and whose pilot pressure is a pressure of a rod-side supply and discharge circuit for connecting said rod-side port of said working cylinder to said switching valve;
• position detection means for detecting when a piston rod of said working cylinder reaches a known position of said piston rod where a rated pressure of a hydraulic pump is balanced with a load acting on said piston rod of said working cylinder in a piston-rod advancing step of said working cylinder;
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• pressure intensification control means for starting supplying said hydraulic fluid to a drive chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder based on a detection signal from said position detection means in said piston-rod advancing step of said working cylinder,
• wherein K>PLa/Pp is satisfied where K is a pressure intensifying ratio of said pressure intensifying cylinder, Pp is said rated pressure of said hydraulic pump and PLa is a pressure in said head-side cylinder chamber when a maximum load occurring after said position detection means makes that detection is applied, and ΔV=(PLa−Pp)×Va×β where ΔV is a maximum discharge volume of said pressure intensifying chamber of said pressure intensifying cylinder, Va is a volume of said head-side cylinder chamber when said position detection means makes said detection and β is a compressibility of said hydraulic fluid.