POWER COMPARISON A conventional actuator and a diamond-shaped actuator are arranged as per "FIGURE 7". The conventional actuator's boundary face area is the same as the area of each of the four equal sides of the diamond-shaped actuator. The valve is closed. Open the valve, driving both actuators with the common source of pressurized fluid as per "FIGURE 8". The driving force on the conventional actuator is the result of the fluid pressure on the one moving boundary face times the boundary face area. The driving force at the tip of the diamond-shaped actuator is the effect of the combined force on the four moving walls of the actuator. We determined the equilibrium point for our diamond-shaped model. This is the point the actuator is able to suspend a weight with neither rising nor lowering. The best our model has demonstrated in actual testing is a 26% advantage over a conventional actuator. NOTE: The diamond-shaped actuator requires less fluid achieving the same degree of lift with 26% more load. 13.252 CONVENTIONAL ACTUATOR DIAMOND-SHAPED ACTUATOR HINGE (TYPICAL) FLUID SOURCE VALVE EQUILIBRIUM AT 100 UNITS OF LOAD EQUILIBRIUM AT 126 UNITS OF LOAD EQUAL TRAVEL CONVENTIONAL ACTUATOR FLUID SOURCE DIAMOND-SHAPED ACTUATOR VALVE HINGED (TYPICAL) FIGURE 7 FIGURE 8
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