Abstract:
A compact electrohydraulic brake control system in which a reservoir of brake fluid is employed to compensate for brake shoe wear and for brake fluid leakage. In addition, an electric recycling circuit provides a means for compensating for fluid leakage, and a check valve arrangement prevents the hydraulic system from becoming air bound even when the fluid containing parts thereof are above the fluid level in the reservoir.
Abstract:
A fluid amplifier is utilized to operate the secondary or synchronous contacts of a circuit breaker having main or nonsynchronous contacts and secondary or synchronous contacts, which are connected in parallel-circuit relation when the breaker is closed. The operation of the fluid amplifier is controlled by repulsion coil actuated valves. The energization of the repulsion coils is so controlled by current responsive means and by a synchronous control device that the secondary contacts are opened just prior to a current zero after the opening of the main contacts of the breaker. Compressed gas stored in an accumulator supplies energy for open-reclose-open-reclose operation of the secondary contacts if necessary.