	US 7,500,425 B2
	Axial piston machine
Volker Seipel, Bickenbach (Germany); Willi Parsch, Seeheim (Germany); Georg Weber, Egelsbach (Germany); Peter Barth, Bielefeld (Germany); Henry Wittkopf, Jena (Germany); and Peter Kuhn, Weinheim (Germany)
Assigned to Luk Fahrzeug-Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Homburg v.d.H. (Germany)
Appl. No. 10/538,719 PCT Filed Dec. 12, 2003, PCT No. PCT/EP03/14150 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Mar. 09, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/055370, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 01, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 102 58 311 (DE), filed on Dec. 13, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2006/0230922 A1, Oct. 19, 2006
Int. Cl. F04B 27/10 (2006.01); F04B 39/02 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 92—110 [92/158; 92/260]

19 Claims

1. An axial piston machine comprising:

at least one piston having a substantially cylindrical piston body, and a brace configured to receive at least one of a tilting ring and a tilting plate and piston shoes slidably disposed on the at least one of the tilting ring and the tilting plate, wherein the brace includes spherical cap-shaped depressions for receiving the piston shoes, the depressions being located on a first side of the brace adjacent the piston body and on a second side of the piston brace opposite the first side, wherein the substantially cylindrical piston body and the brace are separate parts assembled together to form the piston, wherein the piston brace includes a bridge connecting the first and second sides of the bridge and a first spherical recess disposed within the bridge.