Patent Grant
11052524
The present invention relates to a hydraulic hammering device, such as a rock drill and a breaker.
Japanese Patent No. 4912785 describes an art disclosed as an example of this type of hydraulic hammering device. The hydraulic hammering device described in the document is provided with a cylinder 100P, a front head 300, and a back head 400P, and a piston 200 slidingly fitted in the cylinder 100P, as illustrated, for example, in
The front head 300 is disposed in front of the cylinder 100, and a rod 310 is slidingly fitted so as to be movable backwards and forwards. In the front head 300, a hammering chamber 301 is formed, in which the rear end of the rod 310 is hammered by the front end of the piston 200 in the hammering chamber 301. The back head 400P, disposed behind the cylinder 100, includes a retreat chamber 401P formed therein, in which the rear end part of the piston 200 moves backwards and forwards.
The piston 200 is a solid cylindrical body, having large-diameter sections 201 and 202 in an approximately middle region thereof. A medium-diameter section 203 is provided in front of the large-diameter section 201, and a small-diameter section 204 is provided behind the large-diameter section 202. A ring-shaped valve-switching groove 205 is formed in an approximately middle region between the large-diameter sections 201 and 202. The outer diameter of the medium-diameter section 203 of the piston is set larger than that of the small-diameter section 204 of the piston.
As a result, regarding the pressure-receiving areas of the piston 200 in a piston front chamber 110 and that in a piston rear chamber 111, both chambers being described later, in other words, the diametrical difference between the large-diameter section 201 and the medium-diameter section 203 and the diametrical difference between the large-diameter section 202 and the small-diameter section 204, the difference in the piston rear chamber 111 is larger (the difference between the areas will be hereinafter referred to as pressure-receiving area difference).
The piston 200, slidingly fitted in the cylinder 100, defines the piston front chamber 110 and the piston rear chamber 111 within the cylinder 100. The piston front chamber 110 is always connected to a high pressure circuit 101 via a piston front chamber passage 120. On the other hand, the piston rear chamber 111 can communicate with either the high pressure circuit 101 or a low pressure circuit 102 via a piston rear chamber passage 121 by the switching operation of a switching-valve mechanism 130 to be described later.
The high pressure circuit 101 is connected to a pump P, and a high pressure accumulator 140 is provided in the middle of the high pressure circuit 101. The low pressure circuit 102 is connected to a tank T, and a low pressure accumulator 141 is provided in the middle of the low pressure circuit 102. The switching-valve mechanism 130 is a known switching valve disposed in a suitable position inside or outside the cylinder 100P and operates with the aid of pressurized oil supplied/discharged via a valve-control passage 122 to be described later, thereby switching high and low pressures in the piston rear chamber 111 alternatingly.
A piston-advancing control port 112, a piston-retreating control port 113, and an oil-discharging port 114 are provided separately from each other at a certain interval between the piston front chamber 110 and the piston rear chamber 111. The piston-advancing control port 112 and the piston-retreating control port 113 are connected to respective passages branched from the valve-control passage 122. The oil-discharging port 114 is connected to the tank T via an oil-discharging passage 123.
The piston-advancing control port 112 has an anterior short-stroke port 112a and a posterior long-stroke port 112b, which are used for switching between short stroke and long stroke steplessly by operating a variable throttle 112c provided between the short-stroke port 112a and the valve-control passage 122. The fully opened variable throttle 112c causes a short stroke and the fully closed throttle causes a long stroke.
In this hydraulic hammering device, the piston front chamber 110 is always connected to the high pressure circuit 101, thereby always urging the piston 200 backward; when the piston rear chamber 111 is connected to the high pressure circuit 101 owing to the operation of the switching-valve mechanism 130, the piston 200 advances owing to the pressure-receiving area difference, and when the piston rear chamber 111 is connected to the low pressure circuit 102 owing to the operation of the switching-valve mechanism 130, the piston 200 retreats.
When the piston-advancing control port 112 communicates with the piston front chamber 110 to supply pressurized oil to the valve-control passage 122, the switching-valve mechanism 130 is switched to a position so as to make the piston rear chamber passage 121 communicate with the high pressure circuit 101. In addition, when the piston-retreating control port 113 communicates with the oil-discharging port 114 to discharge pressurized oil from the valve-control passage 122 to the tank T, the switching-valve mechanism 130 is switched to a position so as to make the piston rear chamber passage 121 communicate with the low pressure circuit 102.
Methods of improving the power of this type of hydraulic hammering device include a method for increasing its kinetic energy per stroke and a method for increasing its hammering frequency to increase its total kinetic energy. Between these methods, the present inventor has found the following problem in the method for increasing the hammering frequency to increase its total kinetic energy.
In
In the figure, the dotted line is a chart for the long stroke setting, and L1 is a whole stroke, L2 is a section for acceleration of retreating piston (after the piston starts retreating until the piston-advancing control port communicates with the piston front chamber and the switched valve switches the piston rear chamber into a high pressure state), L3 is a section for deceleration of retreating piston (after the piston rear chamber is switched into a high pressure state until the piston reaches a backward stroke end), and Vlong is a piston speed at the hammering point. In addition, the solid line is a chart for the short-stroke setting, and also in the dotted line, L1′ is a whole stroke, L2′ is a section for acceleration of retreating piston, L3′ is a section for deceleration of retreating piston, and Vshort is a piston speed at the hammering point.
It can be understood from
Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object thereof is to provide a hydraulic hammering device capable of improving hammering power by shortening its piston stroke, while keeping its hammering energy.
In order to achieve the object mentioned above, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hydraulic hammering device including: a cylinder; a piston slidingly fitted in the cylinder; a piston front chamber and a piston rear chamber which are defined between an outer circumferential surface of the piston and an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder and disposed separately from each other at front and rear, respectively, in an axial direction of the piston; a switching-valve mechanism driving the piston by switching at least one of the piston front chamber and the piston rear chamber into communication with at least one of a high pressure circuit and a low pressure circuit; and an urging means, which is disposed behind the piston and comes in contact with the piston during a retreat stroke of the piston, to urge the piston forward in cooperation with braking force by pressurized oil acting on the piston.
In the hydraulic hammering device according to the aspect of the present invention, the urging means may come into contact with the piston at a timing of an action of the braking force on the piston owing to pressurized oil during the retreat stroke of the piston.
Further, in the hydraulic hammering device according to the aspect of the present invention, the urging means may be an acceleration piston, thrust of which is generated by pressurized oil supplied from the high pressure circuit.
Further, in the hydraulic hammering device according to the aspect of the present invention, the urging means may be an acceleration piston, the thrust of which is generated by pressure of a gas filled in a closed space.
Accordingly, as to the hydraulic hammering device according to the aspect of the present invention, the urging means is disposed behind the piston and comes in contact with the piston during the retreat stroke of the piston, to urge the piston forward in cooperation with braking force by pressurized oil acting on the piston. Therefore, the retreat stroke of the piston is shortened and the advancing operation of the piston is accelerated, and thus, it is possible to improve the output power since the piston speed does not decrease. Accordingly, the hydraulic hammering device according to the aspect of the present invention can improve hammering power by shortening its piston stroke, while keeping its hammering energy.
The hydraulic hammering device according to the aspect of the present invention may include an operation-selection means for retracting the urging means, when the urging means is not operated, to a position where the urging means is not in contact with the piston.
Further, the switching-valve mechanism may be configured to drive the piston by switching at least the piston rear chamber into communication with either the high pressure circuit or the low pressure circuit alternatingly, and a passage for supplying pressurized oil to the acceleration piston may be branched from a passage for supplying pressurized oil to the piston rear chamber.
The hydraulic hammering device according to the aspect of the present invention may include an urging accumulator provided in the vicinity of the urging means in a passage for supplying pressurized oil from the high pressure circuit to the urging means.
The hydraulic hammering device according to the aspect of the present invention may include a direction-control means, which allows only supply of pressurized oil to the urging means, the direction-control means being provided in the passage for supplying pressurized oil at a position closer to a pressurized-oil-supply than the urging accumulator and in the vicinity of the urging accumulator.
According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a hydraulic hammering device capable of improving hammering power by shortening its piston stroke, while keeping its hammering energy.
Hereinafter, respective embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings as appropriate. In all of the drawings, the same components are assigned with the same signs. The drawings are schematic. Therefore, it should be noted that a quantity such as the relation or ratio of thickness to surface dimension may be different from the actual one, and the dimensional relation and ratio of parts illustrated in respective drawings may be different from those in another drawing. In addition, each of the embodiments illustrated below exemplifies a device and a method for embodying a technical concept of the present invention, which does not limit the material, shape, structure, arrangement, etc., of component parts to those in embodiments below.
As illustrated in
The piston 200 is a solid cylindrical body, having large-diameter sections 201 and 202 in an approximately middle region thereof. The piston has a medium-diameter section 203 provided in front of the large-diameter section 201 and a small-diameter section 204 provided behind the large-diameter section 202. A ring-shaped valve-switching groove 205 is formed in an approximately middle region between the large-diameter sections 201 and 202.
The outer diameter of the medium-diameter section 203 of the piston is set larger than that of the small-diameter section 204 of the piston. As a result, regarding the pressure-receiving area of the piston 200 in a piston front chamber 110 and that in a piston rear chamber 111, in other words, the diametrical difference between the large-diameter section 201 and the medium-diameter section 203 and the diametrical difference between the large-diameter section 202 and the small-diameter section 204, the difference in the piston rear chamber 111 is larger.
The piston 200 is slidingly fitted in the cylinder 100, thereby defining the piston front chamber 110 and the piston rear chamber 111 within the cylinder 100. The piston front chamber 110 is always connected to a high pressure circuit 101 via a piston front chamber passage 120. On the other hand, the piston rear chamber 111 can communicate alternatingly with either the high pressure circuit 101 or a low pressure circuit 102 via the piston rear chamber passage 121 by switching a switching-valve mechanism 130 to be described later.
A pump P is connected to the high pressure circuit 101, in the middle of which is provided a high pressure accumulator 140. A tank T is connected to the low pressure circuit 102, in the middle of which is provided a low pressure accumulator 141. The switching-valve mechanism 130 is a known switching valve disposed in a suitable position inside or outside the cylinder 100 and is operated by pressurized oil supplied/discharged via a valve-control passage 122 to be described later, thereby switching high and low pressures in the piston rear chamber 111 alternatingly.
A piston-advancing control port 112, a piston-retreating control port 113, and an oil-discharging port 114 are provided separately from each other at a certain interval between the piston front chamber 110 and the piston rear chamber 111. The piston-advancing control port 112 and the piston-retreating control port 113 are connected to respective passages branched from the valve-control passage 122. The oil-discharging port 114 is connected to the tank T via an oil-discharging passage 123.
The piston-advancing control port 112 includes an anterior short-stroke port 112a and a posterior long-stroke port 112b. Regarding the piston-advancing control port 112, short stroke and long stroke can be steplessly switched by operating a variable throttle 112c provided between the short-stroke port 112a and the valve-control passage 122. The fully opened variable throttle 112c causes a short stroke and the fully closed throttle causes a long stroke.
In front of the cylinder 100, a front head 300 is disposed, in which a rod 310 is slidingly fitted so as to be movable backwards and forwards. The front head 300 includes a hammering chamber 301 formed therein, in which the rear end of the rod 310 is hammered by the front end of the piston 200.
A back head 400 is disposed behind the cylinder 100. The back head 400 includes a retreat chamber 401 and a pressurizing chamber 402 behind the retreat chamber, both formed therein. The inner diameter of the retreat chamber 401 is set so as not to influence the backward and forward movement of the small-diameter section 204 of the piston, and the inner diameter of the pressurizing chamber 402 is set to be larger than that of the retreat chamber 401. The end surface 403 is formed on the boundary between the retreat chamber 401 and the pressurizing chamber 402.
An acceleration piston 410 as an urging means is slidingly fitted to the pressurizing chamber 402. The acceleration piston 410 has an anterior small-diameter section 411 and a posterior large-diameter section 412. A stepped surface 413 is formed on the boundary between the small-diameter section 411 and the large-diameter section 412. The large-diameter section 412 slidingly coming into contacting with the inner diameter of the pressurizing chamber 402 and the end surface 403 coming into contact with the stepped surface 413 form a hydraulic chamber behind the large-diameter section 412 in the pressurizing chamber 402, and the hydraulic chamber is always connected to the high pressure circuit 101 via the pressurizing passage 404.
In general hydraulic hammering devices, the hammering surface of the rod 310 and that of the piston 200, in other words, the outer diameter of the medium-diameter section 203 of the piston and the outer diameter of the rear end part of the rod 310 are set to be of the same size. The reason for this is to enhance the transmission efficiency of stress wave generated by the rod 310 struck by the piston 200, and for the same reason in this embodiment, the outer diameter of the small-diameter section 411 of the acceleration piston 410 is set to be nearly of the same size as that of the small-diameter section 204 of the piston.
Next, the operation of the hydraulic hammering device of this embodiment and operating states of the acceleration piston 410 will be explained with reference to
In the hydraulic hammering device of this embodiment, the piston front chamber 110 is always connected in a highly pressurized state, thereby always urging the piston 200 backward; when the piston rear chamber 111 is connected in the highly pressurized state owing to the operation of the switching-valve mechanism 130, the piston 200 advances owing to the pressure-receiving area difference. When the piston rear chamber 111 is connected in a low pressurized state owing to the operation of the switching-valve mechanism 130, the piston 200 retreats.
When the piston-advancing control port 112 communicates with the piston front chamber 110 to supply pressurized oil to the valve-control passage 122, the switching-valve mechanism 130 is switched to a position such that the piston rear chamber passage 121 communicates with the high pressure circuit 101. When the piston-retreating control port 113 communicates with the oil-discharging port 114 to discharge pressurized oil to the tank T from the valve-control passage 122, it is switched to a position such that the piston rear chamber passage 121 communicates with the low pressure circuit 102. The setting of the piston-advancing control port is for long stroke wherein the variable throttle 112c is fully closed.
Here, the hammering mechanism of hydraulic hammering device of this embodiment is characterized in that the acceleration piston 410 is provided in the back head 400 in comparison with conventional hydraulic hammering devices.
In other words, upon the hammering of the rod 310 by the piston 200, as illustrated in
When the piston 200 retreats, the piston-advancing control port 112 is opened to switch the switching-valve mechanism 130, and at the timing when the piston rear chamber 111 enters the high pressure state, the piston 200 comes into contact with the acceleration piston 410. At this time, the piston 200 receives the action of the thrust (‘additional thrust’) owing to the acceleration piston 410 in addition to the thrust (referred to as ‘normal thrust’) owing to the pressure-receiving area difference between the piston front chamber 110 and the piston rear chamber 111 (See
Then, the piston 200, still continuing retreating by its inertia, turns from retreat to advance at a position anterior to the usual backward stroke end owing to the additional thrust together with the normal thrust acting on the piston 200. In the meantime, pressurized oil discharged from the pressurizing chamber 402 is pressurized into the high pressure accumulator 140 (See
Immediately after the piston 200 turned to advance, the pressurized oil accumulated in the high pressure accumulator 140 is supplied to the pressurizing chamber 402. Therefore, the piston 200 is urged to be accelerated rapidly by the acceleration piston 410. Eventually, when the stepped surface 413 comes into contact with the end surface 403 and reaches the forward stroke end of the acceleration piston 410, the piston 200 moves forward apart from the acceleration piston 410 only with the aid of normal thrust and hammers the rod 310 (See
In
In this instance, the conventional piston stroke-speed chart without the acceleration piston 410 has the same profile as that of the chart for the long stroke in
As illustrated in
In other words, a difference caused by the presence or absence of the acceleration piston 410 of this embodiment is only the stroke in the section during which the piston 200 is in contact with the acceleration piston 410, and the stroke in this section is shortened from L3 to LB3. Therefore, the overall stroke is shortened from L1 to LB1.
Thus, the acceleration piston 410 of this embodiment can be said to be a mechanism which transiently enlarges the pressure-receiving area of the piston rear chamber 111 only during a part of the piston-retreating stroke, in other words, during the stroke of the LB3 section which is from decelerated retreat via backward-stroke end to accelerated advance.
The pressure-receiving area, enlarged during the decelerated retreat of the piston 200, causes the increase of braking force, which will stop the retreat operation of the piston 200 in a short time. Simultaneously, the time required for accumulating pressurizing oil into the high pressure accumulator 140 is shortened, which oil is discharged from the piston rear chamber 111 and the pressurizing chamber 402.
Then, even after the piston 200 turned to advancing operation, the pressure-receiving area is kept enlarged, thereby shortening the time required for releasing the pressurized oil accumulated in the high pressure accumulator 140 to be supplied to the piston rear chamber 111 and the pressurizing chamber 402, resulting in increase in the advance acceleration of the piston 200.
Thus, it is understood that, according to the hydraulic hammering device of this embodiment, the stroke is shortened by shortening the time for recovery/release of kinetic energy by the high pressure accumulator 140, as compared with hydraulic hammering devices without the acceleration piston 410.
The mass of the piston is represented by mp, and that of the acceleration piston 410 by mb. For conventional hydraulic hammering devices in the retreat-deceleration stroke during which the piston 200 reduces its velocity from the speed V2 in the L3 section of
−mVpVp=Fp·Tp
On the other hand, for the hydraulic hammering device of the present invention provided with an additional acceleration piston in the retreat-deceleration stroke during which the piston 200 reduces the velocity from the speed V2 in LB3 section in
(mp+mb)Vp=Fb·Tb,
where, substituting mb=a·mp into the above relation gives
−(mp+mb)Vp=−(1+a)mp·Vp=(1+a)Fp·Tp=Fb·Tb,
∴Tb=(1+a)(Fp/Fb)Tp.
Further, when the pressure-receiving area difference between the piston front chamber 110 and the piston rear chamber 111 for the piston 200 is defined as Ap, the pressure-receiving area of the large-diameter section 412 of the acceleration piston 410 defined as Ab, and the hydraulic pressure defined as ΔP, they give
Fp=Ap·ΔP,
Fb=(Ap+Ab)ΔP,
∴Tb=(1+a)Ap/(Ap+Ab)Tp.
For comparison, time required for the advance-acceleration stroke in the L3 section of the conventional hydraulic hammering device and that required for advance-acceleration stroke in the LB3 section of the hydraulic hammering device of the present invention are also represented by Tp and Tb, respectively.
In other words, the hydraulic hammering device of the present invention shortens its stroke because the cycle time 2 Tb in LB3 section during which the piston 200 comes in contact with the acceleration piston 410, stops owing to braking, then turns to advance, and accelerates is related to the cycle time 2 Tp in the L3 section of conventional hydraulic hammering machines with no acceleration piston 410, by a relation of 2 (1+a) Ap/(Ap+Ab) Tp. In addition, the smaller mass ratio a of the acceleration piston 410 to the piston 200 and the larger pressure-receiving area Ab of the accelerating piston 410 facilitates a shortened stroke more.
This shortened stroke necessitates no additional power because it is achieved through recovery/release of kinetic energy by the high pressure accumulator 140. Further, when an actual hammering device is designed, the mass ratio a of the acceleration piston 410 to the piston 200 is preferably designed to be negligibly small, in other words, the mass mb of the acceleration piston 410 is preferably set to be as small as possible.
In the hydraulic hammering device of this embodiment, there is no change for the speed V1 of the piston 200 upon hammering the rod 310 even when the shortened stroke is achieved. Therefore, the hammering frequency is increased without decreasing hammering energy per stroke, thereby enabling improvement in the power of the hammering mechanism.
Next, the second embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to
As illustrated in the figure, in this second embodiment, the pressurizing chamber 402′ is different from that in the first embodiment described above in that a closed space is formed by the back head 400 and the large-diameter section 412 of the acceleration piston 410.
In the second embodiment, a pressurizing chamber 402′ is filled with highly pressurized gas, the pressure of which adds a forward thrust to the acceleration piston 410. The retreat stroke of the acceleration piston 410 is limited by a ring-shaped end surface 408. Other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment.
According to this the second embodiment, no hydraulic circuit is required for urging means, thereby enabling simplifying the configuration of the hydraulic hammering device.
Next, the third embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to
As illustrated in the figure, the back head 400 in this third embodiment includes a partition wall 405 formed anterior to the boundary between the retreat chamber 401 and the pressurizing chamber 402 (i.e., end surface 403), the partition wall having an inner diameter slidingly fitted to the outer diameter of the small-diameter section 411 of the acceleration piston, and a switching chamber 405a provided on the partition wall 405 facing the pressurizing chamber 402. The switching chamber 405a is connected to a switching passage 406, which together with the pressurizing passage 404 is designed to communicate with any one of the high pressure circuit 101 and the low pressure circuit 102 via the switching-valve mechanism 420. Other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment.
According to this third embodiment, the switching-valve mechanism 420, when in a state of position illustrated in
Next, the fourth embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to
In the fourth embodiment, as illustrated in this figure, the pressurizing chamber 402 is connected to the piston rear chamber passage 121 via a pressurizing passage 407. Other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment.
According to this fourth embodiment, the pressurizing passage 407 which is a passage for supplying pressurized oil to the acceleration piston 410 is provided in such a way as to be branched from the piston rear chamber passage 121 supplying pressurized oil to the piston rear chamber 111, and therefore, supply/discharge of pressurized oil to/from both pressurizing chamber 402 and the piston rear chamber 111 is performed synchronously. Therefore, the timing at which the acceleration piston 410 described above starts operating can be made to exactly coincide with the timing of the start of retreat-deceleration stroke of the piston 200. Therefore, energy is never wasted by the collision of the piston 200 with the acceleration piston 410 before the piston 200 starts decelerating.
Next, the fifth embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to
As illustrated in this figure, the fifth embodiment includes an urging accumulator 142 provided in the vicinity of the pressurizing chamber 402 in the pressurizing passage 404′ connecting the pressurizing chamber 402 and the high pressure circuit 101. Other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment.
In the hydraulic hammering device of the first embodiment illustrated in
Therefore, in the hydraulic hammering device of the first embodiment, when the piston 200 retreats and collides with the acceleration piston 410, the impact propagating to the pressurizing passage 404 via pressurized oil in the pressurizing chamber 402 reaches the switching-valve mechanism 130. The switching-valve mechanism 130, affected by the impact of pressurized oil, may cause the operational instability of the switching-valve mechanism 130.
On the other hand, in this fifth embodiment, as illustrated in
Next, the sixth embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to
In all of the hydraulic circuits, a larger passage area causes lower pressure loss and improves hydraulic efficiency. When attention is drawn to the relation of the passage area of the high pressure passage 121 and the pressure-receiving area of the piston rear chamber 111 and the relation of the passage area of the pressurizing passage 404 and the pressure receiving area of the pressurizing chamber 402 in the hydraulic hammering device of the first embodiment illustrated in
Smaller passage area in comparison to pressure-receiving area means larger pressure loss. In other words, it can be said that the pressurizing passage 404 has a relatively larger pressure loss with respect to the high pressure passage 121. Thus, in the first embodiment, the pressure loss in the acceleration piston 410 is relatively large, and therefore, possibly insufficient to exert the acceleration action of the present invention when the piston 200 and the acceleration piston 410 move together, but increasing the passage area as a solution for this concern is limited both in terms of costs and arrangement.
Thus, in this the sixth embodiment, as illustrated in
According to the sixth embodiment, providing the check valve 143 enables preventing the backflow of oil to the pressurizing passage 404″, improving the utilization efficiency of the urging accumulator 142 drastically. Therefore, the urging accumulator 142 can play a more positive role as a source of pressurized oil for exerting the acceleration action of the present invention. Therefore, the pressure loss may not be taken into account for the pressurizing passage 404″, and the passage area can be made small. In addition, the improved utilization efficiency of the urging accumulator 142 owing to the check valve 143 also enables achieving the aforementioned impact-reduction effect against pressurized oil in the pressurizing chamber 402.
As described above, each of the embodiments of the present invention has been described with reference to drawings, but there is no need to say that the hydraulic hammering device according to the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, and other variants and various modification of each of the components can be carried out as long as they do not depart from the spirit of the present invention.
For example, the piston is not limited to solid one and a through-hole or a stop hole may be formed at the axial central part of the piston. Further, the anterior and posterior large-diameter sections of the piston may not be of the same diameter and may have a diametrical difference from each other. Still further, the outer diameter of the small-diameter section of the acceleration piston may not be fitted to the outer diameter of the medium-diameter section of the piston. Still further, the timing at which the piston comes into contact with the acceleration piston may be slightly varied with respect to the timing at which the piston rear chamber is switched into the high pressure state.
In addition, the hydraulic hammering devices according to the embodiments were exemplified by a hydraulic hammering device of so-called a ‘rear chamber high/low pressure switching type’ which makes the piston advance/retract by switching high and low pressures in the piston rear chamber while always keeping high pressure in the piston front chamber, but it is not limited to this type.
In other words, the hydraulic hammering device according to the present invention is applicable not only to a hydraulic hammering device of so-called a ‘front/rear chamber high/low pressure switching type’ which makes the piston advance/retract by alternatingly switching high pressure and low pressures in the piston front chamber and the piston rear chamber, respectively, but also to a hydraulic hammering device of so-called a ‘front chamber high/low pressure switching type’ which makes the piston advance/retract by switching high and low pressures in the piston front chamber while always keeping high pressure in the piston rear chamber.
Regarding the hydraulic hammering device of the fourth embodiment illustrated in
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