Patent GB-1380693-A (GB)
Title: Variable displacement pumps or motors and their associated posi tioning systems
IPC: B62D11/18
Filed: 1971-12-14
Abstract: 1380693 Hydrostatic transmission control INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO 14 Dec 1971 [14 Dec 1970] 56563/71 Heading F2D [Also in Division G3] In a hydrostatic transmission wherein a variable displacement pump 11 supplies a variable displacement motor the motor and pump displacements are adjusted by follow-up servo systems, 112, 114 and 80 and 60, 66 and 31 respectively on operation of a controller 17 (Fig. 2), which acts as a reversing valve and as a variable throttle. This controller comprises a spool 18, with lands having helical grooves 21 and 22, the central reduced portion 20 of the spool communicating in all positions of the valve with an inlet 26 which receives fluid at pressure. The reduced portion 23 of the spool is connected, by passage 25 to drain. In the neutral position of the valve both conduits 27 and 28 are at drain pressure, but on movement of the spool (to the right for example), the conduit 28 is connected to the helical groove at an intermediate point thereof and so receives pressure depending on its position on this groove. This pressure is transmitted to valve 31, at chamber 45, and so moves the spool therein downwards, bringing a source of pressure connected to line 35 into communication with conduit 59, and connecting conduit 59o to drain via line 39. Conduits 59 and 59a are connected to the piston and cylinder 61, 60 (Fig. 5), which causes alteration in pump displacement. On movement of the piston 61 a valve spool 65, similar to that of the controller 17 is moved to cause conduit 78 to rise above drain pressure (a source of pressure being connected, by line 72, to the valve), conduit 79 being still at drain pressure, which pressure is transmitted to the lowest chamber 50 of valve 31 and moves the spool back up to cut off the supplies 59 and 59a to the cylinder 60 and halt further movement of the piston therein. On further movement of the controller spool to cause the pressure in the conduit 28 to rise yet further, this may provide a pressure greater than a pressure (from pipe 123), wihch biases the spool in the motor valve 80 downwards and cause this to rise so that, as with conduits 59 and 59a, conduits 100 and 101 act on the motor displacement adjusting cylinder (Fig. 4, not shown), to adjust the motor displacement. The biasing of the valve to the downward position, with the controller at neutral, means that, with the pump in neutral the motor is at maximum displacement. The motor adjusting member, like that for the pump, has a valve with a helically grooved spool to cause the valve 80, as a result of the pressure from pipe 123 being reduced, to centre the spool of the valve 80 to prevent further adjustment of motor displacement. Reverse is achieved by movement of the spool of the controller in the opposite direction from neutral, thus switching pressure to pipes 27 and 59a to cause reverse displacement of the pump. The motor displacement is, however, varied in the same direction as for forward motion. Two of the above transmissions may be incorporated in a tracked vehicle, one for each track.