摘要 |
A fluid intensifier (10) includes an unequal-area pump piston (11) and a drive piston (14). The large-area pump piston chamber (21) communicates with the small-area pump piston chamber (29) via a communicating conduit (30) having a check valve (25) therein. The pump piston is coupled to a drive piston (14) having a lost-motion connection (18) with a two-lobed pilot valve spool (41). The pilot valve (16) controls a pilot pressure in the spool end chamber (60) of a spring-biased control valve (19). The fluid intensifier is automatically reversing as the pump piston approaches either end of its stroke, and is arranged to provide a substantially-constant intensified fluid pressure (Pi) at an outlet.
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