Fluid Automation (Mechatronic Engineering)

Example of exam 3
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1. Name four methods for actuating pneumatic directional control valves.

2. What is the advantage of internal pilot valve (pilot stage) in pneumatic valves?
3. Components are to be supplied to a processing machine from the discharge rail of a vibrator conveyor
as shown in Fig.1a. Cylinder 1.0 extends and picks up the component from the discharge rail and then
retracts. Cylinder 2.0 extends and shifts the component to the machine. Cylinder 1.0 extends once
again, lowering and dropping the component to the machine. At the end, cylinders 1.0 and 2.0 retract
one after another. The required sequence is shown in Fig. 1b. Develop a pneumatic control circuit to
implement the control task (using the pneumatic sequencer method).

Fig. 1a: supplying of components Fig. 1b: displacement-step diagram

4. Develop the ladder diagram and the hard wired electropneumatic circuit according to sequence
A+/B+/B-/A-, single cycle (one pushbutton). Numbers must be added in the ladder and in the hard
wired circuit to clarify the input and output of each element (electropneumatic component/relay/limit
switch/push button…). Numerations in the two diagrams must be in agreement. Pneumatic
connections must be completed too. A sketch of the unwired electropneumatic circuits is shown in
Figure 2.

Figure 2: sketch of the unwired electropneumatic circuit.