Patent ID: 6932403

Claim:
A method of operating a slide out assembly forming part of a vehicle, wherein the slide out assembly includes an actuating mechanism including at least two hydraulic actuators, each of said hydraulic actuators having an extendible ram extendible from a cylinder, said extendible rams being fixed to at least one of a stationary portion of the vehicle and a slide out section, and said cylinders being fixed to the other of said stationary portion and said slide out section, on opposite sides of said slide out section said method comprising: adjusting flows of fluid flowing to and from each of said cylinders when respectively extending and retracting said rams in response to fluid pressures in each of said cylinders so as to equalize said flows and synchronize the movement of the sides of said slide out section, at least one of said flows to said cylinders being adjusted by a flow divider upstream of said cylinders, and at least one of said flows from said cylinders being adjusted by said flow divider downstream of said cylinders.