Motors: expansible chamber type – Working member position feedback to motive fluid control – Follower type
Patent
1985-07-24
1992-07-07
Look, Edward K.
Motors: expansible chamber type
Working member position feedback to motive fluid control
Follower type
74388PS, F15B 910
Patent
active
051273128
ABSTRACT:
A power-assist device for an automotive steering system employs an easy-to-assemble hydraulic pressure control valve to compensate for differential forces on opposite sides of an actuating piston in an unbalanced hydraulic cylinder. The piston divides the cylinder into first and second working chambers which are each connected to a hydraulic pump and a return reservoir via first and second spool valves, respectively. The spool valves are actuated axially by a torsion bar connected to the stub shaft of the steering column, so that they reciprocate axially within bores through the valve body as the steering wheel is turned back and forth. Lands on the spool valves oppose slightly larger lands the bores to define orifices which control the rates of hydraulic supply and drain to and from the working chambers of the cylinder. The cross-sections of the orifices change as the spool valves reciprocate and the first-chamber supply and second-chamber drain orifices are larger than the others due to the increased internal diameters of the corresponding bore lands. This boosts the hydraulic pressure in the first working chamber in order to compensate for its reduced effective piston area, which is due to the effect of a piston rod connecting the piston to wheel-orientation control mechanisms. The first and second spool valves are identical; the bores are contoured differentially to provide the necessary dimensional differences among the control orifices.
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Komatsu Koichi
Uemura Seiji
Atsugi Motor Parts Co. Ltd.
Look Edward K.
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