IP Library Granted Patent US 10,393,197
Granted Patent B2
US 10,393,197 · App. 15/556,399 · Granted Aug 27, 2019

Method for controlling a hydraulic actuator

Inventors: Markus Baehr (Bühl, DE); Dominik Herkommer (Schriesheim, DE); Andre Schauer (Bühl, DE); Marco Grethel (Bühlertal, DE)
Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
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Patent No.
US 10,393,197
App. No.
15/556,399
Granted
Aug 27, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for adjusting and adapting an operating point of a hydraulic actuator arrangement, in which a volume flow source is connected to a hydraulic cylinder via a pressure line that is filled with a hydraulic fluid. The method includes regulating a volume of the hydraulic fluid by the volume flow source, wherein an operating point of a position of the actuator arrangement corresponds, with respect to a predefined parameter, to a device which is to be actuated by the actuator arrangement. A modified volume of the hydraulic fluid which is necessary to adjust the operating point is derived from a rotational position of a volume flow source motor and/or of the volume flow source.

Claims (20)

1. A method for adjusting and adapting an operating point of a hydraulic actuator arrangement, in which a volume flow source is connected to a hydraulic cylinder via a pressure line which is filled with a hydraulic fluid, the method comprising:

regulating a volume of the hydraulic fluid by the volume flow source, wherein an operating point of a position of the actuator arrangement corresponds, with respect to a predefined parameter, to a device which is to be actuated by the actuator arrangement, and wherein a modified volume of the hydraulic fluid which is necessary to adjust the operating point is derived from a rotational position of the volume flow source.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein to determine the rotational position, a current rotational angle of the volume flow source is measured, which is regulated to a reference rotational angle of a preceding rotational angle control cycle of a rotational angle regulation which is contained in a pressure/angle regulator.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the volume of the hydraulic fluid is determined by multiplying the measured current rotational angle by the volume of the volume flow source per unit rotational angle.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a calculated leakage is taken into account when determining the volume of the hydraulic fluid.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the modified volume of the hydraulic fluid which is necessary to adjust the operating point is set via the rotational angle regulation below a predefined operating point and via a pressure regulation executed by the pressure/angle regulator above the predefined operating point.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the rotational angle regulation and the pressure regulation are superimposed in an area of the predefined operating point.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a point of contact of the device is used as the predefined operating point.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the modified volume of the hydraulic fluid is used as a feedforward control value in a control loop which regulates one of a position and/or a pressure of the device by the hydraulic actuator arrangement.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the device is a clutch.

10. A method for adjusting and adapting an operating point of a hydraulic actuator arrangement, in which a volume flow source is driven by a volume flow source motor and is connected to a hydraulic cylinder via a pressure line which is filled with a hydraulic fluid, the method comprising:

regulating a volume of the hydraulic fluid by the volume flow source, wherein an operating point of a position of the actuator arrangement corresponds, with respect to a predefined parameter, to a device which is to be actuated by the actuator arrangement, and wherein a modified volume of the hydraulic fluid which is necessary to adjust the operating point is derived from a rotational position of the volume flow source motor.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein to determine the rotational position, a current rotational angle of the volume flow source motor is measured, which is regulated to a reference rotational angle of a preceding rotational angle control cycle of a rotational angle regulation which is contained in a pressure/angle regulator.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the volume of the hydraulic fluid is determined by multiplying the measured current rotational angle by the volume of the volume flow source per unit rotational angle.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein a calculated leakage is taken into account when determining the volume of the hydraulic fluid.

14. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the modified volume of the hydraulic fluid which is necessary to adjust the operating point is set via the rotational angle regulation below a predefined operating point and via a pressure regulation executed by the pressure/angle regulator above the predefined operating point.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the rotational angle regulation and the pressure regulation are superimposed in an area of the predefined operating point.

16. The method as claimed in claim 14 , wherein a point of contact of the device is used as the predefined operating point.

17. The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the modified volume of the hydraulic fluid is used as a feedforward control value in a control loop which regulates one of a position and a pressure of the device by the hydraulic actuator arrangement.

18. The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the device is a clutch.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 7, 2017
From: BAEHR, MARKUS; GRETHEL, MARCO; HERKOMMER, DOMINIK; SCHAUER, ANDRE
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 043521/0229 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2015 204 383 · Mar 11, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180106305A1 · Apr 19, 2018
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