US 11,994,097 B2
Hydraulic pump/motor
Shunsuke Koide, Tokyo (JP); Yuuichirou Tanikawa, Tokyo (JP); Hideaki Usami, Tokyo (JP); and Kenta Suzuki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Komatsu Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/778,714
Filed by Komatsu Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/045260
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/124930, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-229635 (JP), filed on Dec. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0021713 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. F03C 1/06 (2006.01); F03C 1/32 (2006.01); F03C 1/34 (2006.01); F04B 1/2021 (2020.01); F04B 1/2042 (2020.01); F04B 53/16 (2006.01)
CPC F03C 1/0655 (2013.01) [F03C 1/0647 (2013.01); F03C 1/0652 (2013.01); F04B 1/2021 (2013.01); F04B 1/2042 (2013.01); F04B 53/162 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hydraulic pump/motor comprising:
a cylinder block that rotates about a rotation axis;
a piston disposed in a cylinder bore of the cylinder block; and
a valve plate facing a cylinder port of the cylinder bore,
wherein the valve plate includes:
a high pressure port through which hydraulic oil discharged from the cylinder port flows;
a low pressure port through which hydraulic oil to be sucked into the cylinder port flows;
a first region disposed between the high pressure port and the low pressure port in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis, the first region including a top dead center position facing the cylinder port of the cylinder bore in which the piston having moved to a top dead center is disposed; and
a residual pressure release port provided between the top dead center position and the low pressure port in the first region, and
the residual pressure release port includes a first residual pressure release port and a second residual pressure release port, the second residual pressure release port being disposed at a position different from the first residual pressure release port in a radial direction of the rotation axis,
wherein, in the radial direction, when a distance between the rotation axis and a center of the low pressure port is Rb, a distance between the rotation axis and a center of the first residual pressure release port is R1, and a distance between the rotation axis and a center of the second residual pressure release port is R2, a condition |Rb−R1|<|Rb−R2| is satisfied.