HYDRAULIC CONTROL ARRANGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION VALVE SECTION

• US 20100300086A1
• Filed: 11/14/2008
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Birk, Martin, Büttner, Peter, Stellwagen, Armin
• Application Number:
  US12/743,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20100300086A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 60/420
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2232 using one or more variable displacement pumps
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2267 Valves or distributors position of valves arrangements on upper-structures E02F9/0875
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2296 Systems with a variable displacement pump
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 11/165 for adjusting the pump output or bypass in response to demand
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/20553 with pilot circuit, e.g. for controlling a swash plate
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/30535 the pressure compensating valve is arranged between pressure source and directional control valve
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/3144 the positions being continuously variable, e.g. as realised by proportional valves
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/31511 having a single pressure source
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/351 Flow control by regulating means in feed line, i.e. meter-in control
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/6054 using shuttle valves
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/6055 using pressure relief valves
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/653 the load sensing pressure being higher than the load pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/7058 Rotary output members

Abstract

A hydraulic control arrangement and a method for pressure medium supply of hydraulic consumers are disclosed, comprising an LS pump which can be controlled by a pump regulator dependent on the highest load pressure of the consumers. The pressure medium volume flow to each consumer is adjusted using a metering aperture, wherein on controlling a consumer a higher pressure than the load pressure is signaled to the LS pump regulator, so that the LS pump is controlled according to the higher pressure rather than the low load pressure of said consumer.

Claims

1. A hydraulic control arrangement for pressure medium supply of a plurality of hydraulic consumers, comprising a load-sensing variable displacement pump (6), the adjustment of which is modifiable as a function of a signaling pressure present in a signaling line (18) by an LS pump regulator (8), a distribution valve (24) comprising a valve gate (52) in a valve bore, by means of which an opening cross-section of a metering aperture (28) positioned in a fluid path between a supply line (10) supplied by the pump (6) and a consumer line (14) leading to a consumer (1) can be controlled, wherein said signaling line (18), by connecting it with the supply line (10), is adapted to be impacted with an increased signaling pressure vis-à

-vis the load pressure of said one consumer (1), characterized in that said signaling line (18) is adapted to be connected with said supply line (10) by shifting the valve gate (52) of said distribution valve (24).

2. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the metering apertures (28) assigned to said consumers (1) are each formed by a distribution valve (24) of a distribution valve section (2) of a mobile control block, wherein each distribution valve (24) comprises an LS connection which is connected with said LS pump regulator (8) via said signaling line (18) and which is adapted to be connected via a signaling channel (34) with said supply line (10) in said distribution valve (24) assigned to said one consumer (1).

3. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein an individual compensation valve (44) is assigned to at least said distribution valve (24) of said one consumer (1).

4. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 3, wherein said individual compensation valve is an LS compensation valve (44), and wherein said signaling line (18) is adapted to be connected with said supply line (10) between said compensation valve (44) and said metering aperture (28).

5. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 2, wherein said signaling channel (34) is adapted to be opened only from a particular opening of said metering aperture (28) on, and wherein in the intermediate region said LS connection is connected with a region positioned downstream of said metering aperture (28).

6. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 3, wherein said individual compensation valve (44) is designed with a load maintaining position in which the pressure medium communication between said consumer (1) and said LS variable displacement pump (6) is blocked.

7. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, comprising an LS pressure limiting valve (48) for limiting the pressure present at said LS pump regulator (8).

8. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 2, wherein said signaling channel (34) is substantially integrated in a valve gate (52) of said distribution valve (24).

9. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 8, wherein a longitudinal bore (62) of said valve gate (52) is positioned in the fluid path to said signaling line (18), and wherein said valve gate (52) comprises at least one first radial bore (74) that is open inside toward said longitudinal bore (62), said radial bore (74) being opened, after a particular stroke of said valve gate (52), from the center position in the one direction toward a section (56) of said supply line (10) which opens in the valve bore in which the valve gate is positioned.

10. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 9, wherein in the case of a shifting of said valve gate (52) in the one direction, at least a second radial bore (64) of said valve gate which is open inside toward said longitudinal bore (62) is opened toward the supplied consumer channel (68), and wherein the entire flow rate cross-section of said at least one first radial bore (74) is substantially larger than the flow rate cross-section of said second radial bore (64).

11. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 8, wherein said signaling channel (34) branches off from a communication channel (38) connecting a section of a consumer channel (14) which is positioned downstream of said metering aperture (18) with said signaling line (18), wherein said signaling channel (24) branches off between two nozzles (40, 42), and wherein a signaling nozzle (36) is positioned in said signaling channel (24).

12. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said consumer is an assembly of a harvester head.

13. An LS distribution valve section for controlling a consumer (1), comprising a valve gate (52) guided in a valve bore by means of which an opening cross-section of a metering aperture (28) can be controlled, said metering aperture (28) being positioned in a fluid path between a pressure connection (P) connected with a supply line (10) and a consumer connection (A) connected with a consumer channel (14), and a signaling line (18) via which a signaling pressure is adapted to be applied to an LS connection, characterized in that said signaling line (18) is adapted to be connected with a fluid path between said pressure connection (P) and said metering aperture (28) by shifting said valve gate (52).

14. The LS distribution valve section according to claim 13, wherein a longitudinal bore (62) of said valve gate (52) is positioned in the fluid path to said signaling line (18), and wherein said valve gate (52) comprises at least one first radial bore (74) that is open inside toward said longitudinal bore (62), said radial bore (74) being opened after a particular stroke of said valve gate (52) from the center position in the one direction to a section (56) of said supply line (10) which opens in said valve bore in which said valve gate is positioned.

15. The LS distribution valve section according to claim 14, wherein in the case of a shifting of said valve gate (52) in the one direction at least a second radial bore (64) of said valve gate which is open inside toward said longitudinal bore (62) is opened toward the supplied consumer channel (68), and wherein the entire flow rate cross-section of said at least one first radial bore (74) is substantially larger than the flow rate cross-section of said second radial bore (64).