Hydraulic Motors
Brought to you by:
Demetri Preonas
Greg Unverferth
Overview of Lesson
•How they work
•Types of Motors
•Performance
•Applications
How a hydraulic motor works
•High pressure fluid is
used to turn a shaft.
•This is done in many
different ways.
•Much like a cylinder
the power comes from
the pressure acting
over a large area and
creating a large force.
Gear Motors
•External Gear Motor
–2 rotating gears, the
area of the gear teeth is
where the pressure acts
to create force
–Both gears turn
simultaneously
–One gear is connected
to the output shaft and
the other is an idler.
Model 21300 “B1 Series” Gear Motor
Eaton
®
Heavy Duty Series 1 Variable Motor
Gear Motors
•Internal Gear Motors
•Two categories
–Direct drive gerotor,
works much like a
rotary engine.
–Two gears, an inner
and an outer.
–The pressure pushes
them around a center
point, turning a shaft
Vane Motors
•Spring loaded vanes
are connected to a
rotor
•The rotor turns inside
a cam ring (elliptical
hole)
•The vanes slide in and
out of the slots in the
rotor to make contact
with the cam wall.
Piston Motors
•Many different types of piston motors
•All of them use the same basic principles
•Much like a cylinder, only turns a shaft like
the cylinders in your car engine.
•Generally the most efficient
•High power, high speed, high pressure
Piston Motors
•Most efficient
•Often used in
aerospace applications
due to high power to
weight ratio
In-line Piston Motors
•Simple construction
•Low cost
•Used in low torque
high speed
applications, such as
machine tools
Radial Piston Motors
•High Torque
•Low speed
•Possible application
could be a roller.
Bent Axis Piston Motor
•Is one example of variable
displacement motor.
•The angle is altered to
change the displacement.
Limited Rotation Actuator
•Also sometimes called
a oscillator.
•Has limited movement
•High torque
Performance
•Efficiency
•Two factors
•Internal leakage
–Volumetric efficiency
and speed decrease due
to leakage.
•Internal friction
–Mechanical efficiency
loss due to torque loss
•Effv= (rpmact/rpmtheo) * 100
•Effv= volumetric efficiency
•Effm= (Tact/Ttheo) * 100
•Effm= Mechanical efficiency
•Effoa=(Effv/100)*(Effm/100)*100
•Effoa= Over All Efficiency
Performance
•The mechanical torque
desired must be
specified in order to
find required working
pressure.
•Pin= (T*2p)/Disp.
•The rpm desired must
be specified in order to
find required flow
rate.
•Q= (rpm * Disp.)/231
Power
•Hpout= (Tlb-ft * rpm)/5252
•Effoa= (Hpout * 100)/ Hpin
You just learned:
•How a hydraulic motor works
•The basics of the different types of motors
•Some possible applications for hydraulic
motors
•How to calculate power
•How to find efficiency