Patent ID: 7493849

Claim:
Hydraulic cylinder, comprising a cylinder housing having a housing bottom and a circumferential wall, and a pressure chamber which has one side which is delimited by a piston accommodated in a longitudinally displaceable manner in the cylinder housing, a second side which is delimited by the housing bottom of the cylinder housing, the pressure chamber being further delimited radially outwards by the circumferential wall of the cylinder housing, wherein the pressure chamber is selectively acted upon by a pressure medium via a pressure connection provided at the housing bottom in order to displace the piston in the cylinder housing; and wherein an insertion part is inserted in the pressure connection, said insertion part having a channel section which communicates with the pressure connection and, in the installed position of the hydraulic cylinder, extends essentially in the vertical direction and opens into the pressure chamber in the vicinity of the circumferential wall of the cylinder housing located at a top area in the pressure chamber.