Load Sensing With Active Regeneration System

The paper introduces a novel system design of fluid power systems which improves the control and energy use for multiple actuators systems with particular focus on mobile applications such excavators, loaders, tractors. The system hereinafter described is based on a new patented technology [1], the "Load Sensing with Active Regeneration System". The main idea is to overcome one of the main drawbacks of multiple actuators conventional Load Sensing Systems: while the higher actuator load drives the pump delivery pressure the other active actuators are controlled by the local compensators in a dissipative mode. The goal of the novel architecture is to actively use pressure drops usually wasted in the local compensators and, in case of assistive or overrunning loads, dissipated over control valves.