IP Library Granted Patent US 7,959,128
Granted Patent B2
US 7,959,128 · App. 12/089,675 · Granted Jun 14, 2011

Hydraulic directional valve

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Patent No.
US 7,959,128
App. No.
12/089,675
Granted
Jun 14, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electromagnetic actuating unit ( 10 ) of a hydraulic directional control valve ( 9 ) is provided having an armature ( 18 ) which is arranged such that it can be axially displaced within an armature space ( 30 ), and includes a pole core ( 29 ) which is arranged in a receptacle ( 27 a ) and delimits the armature space ( 30 ) in a movement direction of the armature ( 18 ). Constructions are provided in order to avoid deposits on a guide surface of the armature ( 18 ), as a result of which the dynamics and the response behavior of the actuating unit ( 10 ) are increased and hysteresis effects and the risk of a malfunction of the actuating unit are minimized.

Claims (14)

1. Electromagnetic actuating unit of a hydraulic directional valve comprising:

an armature, which is arranged within an armature space so that it can be axially displaced,

a pole core, which is arranged in a receptacle and which delimits the armature space in a movement direction of the armature,

at least one inlet channel that extends directly between the armature space and an outside of the actuating unit, a lubricant being fed into the armature space through the at least one inlet channel, and

at least one outflow channel, separate from the at least one inlet channel, that extends directly between the armature space and the outside of the actuating unit and communicates with the armature space and the outside of the actuating unit during normal operation of the actuating unit, the lubricant being discharged from the armature space through the at least one outflow channel.

2. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 1 , wherein a push rod extends through an opening in the pole core and which is supported radially by the opening, is connected to the armature.

3. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one outflow channel opens into the armature space at a geodetically lowest position.

4. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 1 , wherein the outflow channel opens into a timing case.

5. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 1 , wherein the outflow channel is constructed as an outflow borehole in the pole core.

6. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 1 , wherein the outflow channel is constructed between the pole core and a wall of the receptacle of the pole core.

7. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 6 , wherein the outflow channel is constructed as an axial groove on an outer casing surface of the pole core.

8. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 6 , wherein the outflow channel is constructed as an axial groove on an inner casing surface of the wall of the receptacle.

9. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 6 , wherein the pole core is mounted with a non-positive fit within a receptacle opening of a housing, the outflow channel is constructed as a ring channel between the pole core and the receptacle and communicates with the outside of the actuating unit via a recess on an inner casing surface of the receptacle opening, the recess on the outer casing surface of the pole core, or a housing opening.

10. Electromagnetic actuating unit according to claim 1 , wherein the actuating unit controls a directional valve formed as a central valve, the directional valve is arranged radially within an inner rotor of a device for the variable setting of control times of an internal combustion engine.

Assignments (6)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE PROPERTY NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 037732 FRAME 0347. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE APP. NO. 14/553248 SHOULD BE APP. NO. 14/553258. Recorded Oct 11, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 040404/0530 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG; SCHAEFFLER VERWALTUNGS 5 GMBH
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0228 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0347 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 12, 2012
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 027843/0269 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 28, 2011
From: SCHAEFFLER KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 025875/0012 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 9, 2008
From: HOPPE, JENS; ROHR, ANDREAS
To: SCHAEFFLER KG
Reel/Frame 020778/0537 →