Motors: expansible chamber type – Working member position feedback to motive fluid control – Electrical input and feedback signal means
Patent
1979-05-29
1981-03-24
Maslousky, Paul E.
Motors: expansible chamber type
Working member position feedback to motive fluid control
Electrical input and feedback signal means
91438, 91448, 91510, 92131, F15B 903, F15B 909, F15B 1306
Patent
active
042573114
ABSTRACT:
A hydraulic control system has two fluid supply circuits which control fluid pressure supplied to respective chambers of a fluid-controlled actuator, each chamber having an individual piston mounted on a common actuator rod. In normal operation, a major part of the pressure is supplied to the actuator by the first circuit in accordance with control signals derived from an external source. The second circuit supplies pressure to its respective chamber at a lower level in accordance with control signals derived from the differential pressure across the piston in that chamber, the pressure supplied by the second circuit acting to reduce the differential pressure across the piston. The system also includes a control unit that responds to malfunction of the first circuit or error in the control signals supplied to the first circuit, by disconnecting the first control circuit from control of the actuator, such as by equalizing pressure across the piston in the first chamber. Upon detection of a malfunction or error, the control unit also supplies to the second circuit, instead of the signals derived from the differential pressure, control signals nominally-identical to the control signals supplied to the first circuit and derived from an external source. In this way, following detection of a malfunction in the first circuit, the second circuit controls the major part of the pressure supplied to the actuator.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3270623 (1966-09-01), Gorngost et al.
patent: 3505929 (1968-04-01), Coppola
Barnsley Michael P.
Eccles Edward S.
Taylor Ralph
Maslousky Paul E.
Smiths Industries Limited
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