PNEUMATIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM USING SHARED PUMP PLENUM

Apparatus and associated methods relate to a pneumatic distribution system having pneumatic pump that exhausts into a common plenum that is in fluid communication with a plurality of flow controllers. In an illustrative embodiment, a system controller may coordinate the operation of the one or more...

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Hauptverfasser:	CARLSON CASEY, BERKE DENNIS, DOUGLAS RYAN, VOJACEK KEN
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	BLASTING DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVO-MOTORS GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS HEATING HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL LIGHTING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS PUMPING OF FLUID BY DIRECT CONTACT OF ANOTHER FLUID OR BYUSING INERTIA OF FLUID TO BE PUMPED PUMPS PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS SIPHONS SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS WEAPONS
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Zusammenfassung:	Apparatus and associated methods relate to a pneumatic distribution system having pneumatic pump that exhausts into a common plenum that is in fluid communication with a plurality of flow controllers. In an illustrative embodiment, a system controller may coordinate the operation of the one or more pneumatic pumps and the plurality of flow controllers to provide air pressure control to a system of pneumatic chambers. In some embodiments, one of the plurality of flow controllers may be configured to provide fluid communication with an ambient atmosphere so as to permit a fluid path from a pneumatic chamber connected to another flow controller to the ambient atmosphere via both flow controllers and the common plenum. In an exemplary embodiment, the system controller may advantageously control the air pressures in a plurality of pneumatic chambers independently of one another using coordinated control of the pump and flow controllers.