Spring Swash Plate

Drive shaft

Inlet port

Cover

Cylinder block Piston

Fig. 1.1 Fixed displacement swash plate axial piston pump

The geometric volume of the swash plate pump depends on the diameter and stroke of the

pistons, as well as their number. The angle of inclination of the swash plate and the diameter

of the piston pitch circle diameter determine the value of the piston stroke and hence the

pump geometric volume. When the swash plate inclination angle is constant, the pump

geometric volume is constant, and the pump in this case is known as a fixed-displacement

swash plate pump. On the other hand, variable geometric volume swash plate pumps are

those pumps which are equipped with control systems that are used to vary the swash plate

inclination angle during pump rotation and thus vary the pump delivery flow rate at constant

speed of rotation of the pump.

Variable geometric volume swash plate axial piston pumps have the advantages of

compactness, high specific power, relatively low cost and good static and dynamic

characteristics. On the other hand they are disadvantaged by their high sensitivity to oil