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Kawasaki Pumps<\/h1>

The Japanese heavy-industry company Kawasaki Heavy Industries has been developing and producing high-performance axial piston motors for more than 40 years. The product range provided is optimized for the industrial and mobile sectors and offers a wide variety of operating pressures, displacement<\/a>s, and diverse power control options. The large, internationally active group also has development and production sites in shipbuilding, vehicle manufacturing (including construction vehicles, railways, and especially motorcycles), building and civil engineering, aerospace engineering, as well as energy systems and mechanical engineering (for example gas turbines, wind turbines, baggage handling systems, or robots). <\/p>

In the United States and Europe, the Japanese group is best known for manufacturing motorcycles. The company is already more than 100 years old and currently employs around 35,000 people in a wide range of divisions (as of March 2016). <\/p>

Axial piston motors for Kawasaki pumps<\/h2>

Kawasaki’s very extensive motor product range includes, in particular, axial piston motors with variable displacement<\/a> for open circuits as well as axial piston motors with very high pressures for various industrial vehicles.<\/p>

In addition, the motor manufacturer offers gear pumps<\/a> and vane cell pumps. A distinction is made here between constant-speed and speed-controlled pumps. These are available in tandem versions with an open or closed circuit. Between the axial piston units with axial piston pump<\/a> and motor, a further distinction must be made between pumps with constant or variable displacement<\/a>. For axial piston pumps<\/a>, there are variants with an inclined axis (so-called bent-axis pumps) and variants with an inclined swash plate (so-called swash-plate pumps). <\/p>

Kawasaki axial piston motors and pumps<\/h3>

Kawasaki pumps<\/a> are primarily used in hydrostatic transmissions in various vehicles. Power is transmitted to the shaft via an oil pressure of around 400–500 bar. The oil pressure can be regulated continuously, resulting in a continuously variable transmission with a very high power density. <\/p>

Typical applications for this type of pump include, for example, wheel loaders, snow groomers, combine harvesters, increasingly tractors, excavators, and many different low-speed vehicles. In contrast to a hydrodynamic torque converter, in which torque at the output is generated by the oil flow, in a hydrostatic transmission the oil pressure generates the torque at the output. During operation, in an axial piston pump the pistons are supported axially in spherical socket bearings and at the same time drive the cylinder drum radially. This function results in the following characteristic properties of the axial piston pump: <\/p>