Classification and Review of Variable Displacement Fluid Power Pumps and Motors
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https://doi.org/10.13052/ijfp1439-9776.2423Keywords:
variable displacement, hydraulic pumps, positive displacement machines, reviewAbstract
Displacement control of positive displacement machines has been a part of fluid power since the early days. Some of the early hydraulic presses already used two different displacement settings, though this was realised by using two different pumps rather than changing the displacement. Later, radial motors with variable stroke length appeared, followed by other designs of variable machines, such as swashplate machines, bent-axis machines, and variable vane machines. All these solutions control the displacement by varying the volume difference of the displacement element – but there are other ways of achieving this. Most have not passed the research state, but some are commercially available. In this paper, different ways of varying the displacement are presented and classified. The classification divides concepts into either control of displaced fluid or control of usage of displaced fluid. In turn, these concepts can be either on system level or displacement element level. This results in four main classes, which to some extent can describe the characteristics of the control.
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