阅读说明：本技术 一种活塞气缸装置和一种活塞气缸装置的工作方法 (Piston cylinder arrangement and method for operating a piston cylinder arrangement ) 是由 李颖高 李东海 吕绮峰 于 2021-01-21 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供了一种活塞气缸装置,包括驱动机构、导向机构、气缸、活塞和背压装置,所述导向机构具有与所述活塞接触的接触部,所述气缸具有收容所述活塞的气缸工作空间,所述气缸与所述导向机构连接,所述接触部随着所述驱动机构的运动在所述导向机构内做往复运动,并在所述往复运动的过程中将所述活塞从第一位置推向第二位置,所述活塞包括连接所述接触部的第一侧,以及与所述第一侧相对设置的第二侧,所述背压装置调整所述第二侧附近的气体压力以将所述活塞从所述第二位置压回所述第一位置。本发明结构独特,使用方便,降低了材料成本、加工成本和装配成本,提高了活塞气缸装置的可靠性。本发明还提供了一种活塞气缸装置的工作方法。(The invention provides a piston cylinder device, which comprises a driving mechanism, a guide mechanism, a cylinder, a piston and a back pressure device, wherein the guide mechanism is provided with a contact part contacted with the piston, the cylinder is provided with a cylinder working space for accommodating the piston, the cylinder is connected with the guide mechanism, the contact part reciprocates in the guide mechanism along with the movement of the driving mechanism and pushes the piston to a second position from a first position in the reciprocating process, the piston comprises a first side connected with the contact part and a second side opposite to the first side, and the back pressure device adjusts the gas pressure near the second side to press the piston back to the first position from the second position. The piston cylinder device is unique in structure and convenient to use, reduces material cost, processing cost and assembly cost, and improves the reliability of the piston cylinder device. The invention also provides a working method of the piston cylinder device.)

1. A piston cylinder device is characterized by comprising a driving mechanism, a guide mechanism, a cylinder, a piston and a back pressure device, wherein the guide mechanism is provided with a contact part which is in contact with the piston, the cylinder is provided with a cylinder working space for accommodating the piston, the cylinder is connected with the guide mechanism, the contact part reciprocates in the guide mechanism along with the movement of the driving mechanism and pushes the piston to a second position from a first position in the reciprocating process, the piston comprises a first side which is connected with the contact part and a second side which is arranged opposite to the first side, and the back pressure device adjusts the gas pressure near the second side so as to press the piston to the first position from the second position.

2. The piston cylinder assembly as described in claim 1 wherein said drive mechanism is disposed on a side remote from said back pressure means, said drive mechanism including a connecting rod and a crankshaft, said crankshaft being interconnected with said connecting rod to oscillate said connecting rod; the crankshaft is further provided with a crankshaft balance block, the balance block is arranged on one side, away from the connecting rod, of the crankshaft, and the crankshaft and the connecting rod are fixedly connected through a bearing.

3. The piston cylinder assembly as described in claim 2 wherein said guide means is disposed between said drive means and said cylinder, said guide means including a guide cylinder and a crosshead, said crosshead further having a crosshead pin; the guide mechanism and the driving mechanism are fixedly connected through the crosshead pin and the bearing, so that the connecting rod drives the contact part on the crosshead to do reciprocating motion in the horizontal direction in the guide cylinder.

4. The piston cylinder device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said cylinder is disposed at a side away from said driving mechanism, said cylinder includes a cylinder sleeve and a cylinder cover, said cylinder sleeve and said cylinder cover together form said cylinder working space; the cylinder with the direction jar passes through the bolt fastening, still be equipped with intake pipe and blast pipe on the cylinder cover.

5. A piston-cylinder arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the piston is provided with at least one piston ring near the second side for ensuring gas tightness between the piston and the inner wall of the working space of the cylinder.

6. A piston-cylinder arrangement according to claim 4, characterized in that the back-pressure means are arranged downstream of the gas outlet of the exhaust pipe, interconnected with the exhaust pipe by means of a screw joint, for adjusting the gas pressure between the second side to the cylinder head.

7. The piston cylinder assembly as described in claim 4 wherein said first position is a position where the distance between said piston and said drive mechanism is shortest and said second position is any position where the distance from said second side of said piston to said cylinder head is less than the distance from said crosshead to the end surface of said cylinder on the side where said crosshead is connected to said pilot cylinder when said crosshead is in said first position.

8. A piston-cylinder unit according to claim 1, characterized in that the piston is in movable contact with the guide means, or in the form of a loose connection, whereby the coaxiality of the piston with the contact portion is ensured by means of the self-alignment of the inner wall of the working space of the cylinder at the position of the piston.

9. A piston-cylinder device according to claim 3, characterized in that the contact part is provided on the crosshead, and that the side wall on which the contact part is located is provided with a recess.

10. A piston-cylinder arrangement according to claim 3, characterized in that the crosshead is provided with at least one oil groove and one lubrication hole, the groove in contact with the piston being an oil groove and the groove in contact with the connecting rod being a lubrication hole.

11. The piston cylinder assembly of claim 6 wherein said back pressure means is provided with a gas pressure threshold, said back pressure means providing a back pressure when the gas pressure in said back pressure means is not less than said gas pressure threshold, said back pressure means providing a back pressure through said exhaust pipe into said cylinder working space to regulate the gas pressure between said second side and said cylinder head to compress said piston from said second position back to said first position.

12. The piston cylinder assembly as described in claim 7 wherein said second position is when said second side of said piston is in contact with said cylinder wall.

13. The piston cylinder device as described in claim 11, wherein said air pressure in said back pressure device is provided by a previous stage piston cylinder device, said previous stage piston cylinder device is connected with said air inlet pipe of said piston cylinder device, said air pressure generated by said previous stage piston cylinder device enters said back pressure device through said air outlet pipe after entering said cylinder working space from said air inlet pipe, until said air pressure reaches said air pressure threshold set by said back pressure device.

14. The piston cylinder assembly as described in claim 1 wherein said piston cylinder assembly is made of a metallic or non-metallic material, said metallic material comprising: one or more of cast iron, cast aluminum and forged steel, wherein the non-metallic materials comprise: the piston cylinder device is made of metal, the working pressure is not less than 3bar, and the working pressure is less than 3bar when the piston cylinder device is made of nonmetal.

15. A method of operating a piston cylinder assembly comprising the steps of:

s1: setting a backpressure threshold value of a backpressure device;

s2: pressurizing a cylinder workspace to the backpressure threshold of the backpressure device;

s3: the driving mechanism drives the guide mechanism to drive the first end face to push the piston from the first position to the second position;

s4: the guide mechanism drives the first end face to return to the first position from the second position under the action of the driving mechanism;

s5: the back pressure device provides back pressure to the cylinder working space to press the piston from the second position back to the first position.

Technical Field

The invention relates to a piston cylinder arrangement and to a method for operating a piston cylinder arrangement.

Background

In order to ensure the coaxiality of the piston and the cylinder and the coaxiality of the guide mechanism and the piston rod, the coaxiality of the piston and the piston rod and the coaxiality of the cylinder and the guide mechanism are highly required in processing and assembly, for example, chinese patent document CN 203009228U. The piston and piston rod with conventional structure are loose-sleeve type and integral type (fixed type). The loose sleeve type is that the piston rod and the piston directly have a connecting structure but are not fixed, and the integral type (fixed type) is that the piston rod and the piston are directly connected and are mutually and completely assembled or designed into a part. The existing structural design has very high requirements on processing equipment due to high requirements on processing form and position tolerance, and meanwhile, the matching degree during assembly is not easy to guarantee, so that the eccentric wear of a piston is caused, the damage to an air cylinder and a piston ring component is easy, and the damage to a piston rod or even the hidden danger that the air cylinder pulls the air cylinder can be caused seriously.

Therefore, there is a need for a piston cylinder device to solve the above problems in the prior art.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a piston cylinder device and a working method of the piston cylinder device, overcomes the defects of the prior art, reduces the material cost, the processing cost and the assembly cost, and improves the reliability of the piston cylinder device.

In order to achieve the above object, a piston cylinder device according to the present invention includes a driving mechanism, a guide mechanism, a cylinder, a piston, and a back pressure device, wherein the guide mechanism has a contact portion movably connected to the piston, the cylinder has a cylinder working space for accommodating the piston, the cylinder is connected to the guide mechanism, the contact portion reciprocates in the guide mechanism in accordance with a movement of the driving mechanism and pushes the piston from a first position to a second position during the reciprocation, the piston includes a first side connected to the contact portion and a second side disposed opposite to the first side, and the back pressure device adjusts a gas pressure near the second side to push the piston from the second position to the first position.

The invention has the beneficial effects that: the driving mechanism drives the guide mechanism to push the piston to the second position from the first position, air pressure is applied to the working space of the air cylinder through the back pressure device, and the piston is pressed back to the first position from the second position, so that a connecting structure does not need to be arranged between the guide mechanism and the piston, the requirement on coaxiality between the guide mechanism and the piston is reduced, and the reliability of equipment is improved.

Furthermore, the driving mechanism is arranged on one side far away from the back pressure device and comprises a connecting rod and a crankshaft, and the crankshaft and the connecting rod are connected with each other to drive the connecting rod to swing; the crankshaft is further provided with a crankshaft balance block, the balance block is arranged on one side, away from the connecting rod, of the crankshaft, and the crankshaft and the connecting rod are fixedly connected through a bearing. The beneficial effects are that: the crankshaft balance block reduces vibration of the crankshaft during rotation, and improves reliability and safety of equipment.

Further, the guide mechanism is arranged between the driving mechanism and the air cylinder, the guide mechanism comprises a guide cylinder and a cross head, and a cross head pin is further arranged on the cross head; the guide mechanism and the driving mechanism are fixedly connected through the crosshead pin and the bearing, so that the connecting rod drives the contact part on the crosshead to do reciprocating motion in the horizontal direction in the guide cylinder. The beneficial effects are that: the crosshead pin and the bearing ensure a tight fit between the drive mechanism and the guide mechanism.

Further, the air cylinder is arranged on one side far away from the driving mechanism, the air cylinder comprises an air cylinder sleeve and an air cylinder cover, the air cylinder sleeve and the air cylinder cover jointly construct the air cylinder working space, and the piston is arranged in the air cylinder working space; the cylinder with the direction jar passes through the bolt fastening, still be equipped with intake pipe and blast pipe on the cylinder cover. The beneficial effects are that: the cylinder provides the piston with the cylinder working space, and the air pressure of the cylinder working space is changed through the air inlet pipe and the air outlet pipe, so that the fluid compression process of gas or liquid media is realized in the cylinder working space.

Further, the piston is arranged in the cylinder working space, and a certain number of piston rings are arranged at the position, close to the second side, of the piston and used for guaranteeing the air tightness between the piston and the inner wall of the cylinder working space. The beneficial effects are that: the piston ring can ensure the air tightness between the piston and the inner wall of the working space of the cylinder, reduce the leakage amount of gas in the working space of the cylinder and ensure the lubrication degree between the inner wall of the working space of the cylinder and the piston.

Further, the backpressure device is arranged at the downstream of the gas outlet of the exhaust pipe, is connected with the exhaust pipe through a threaded joint and is used for adjusting the gas pressure between the second side and the cylinder cover of the cylinder. The beneficial effects are that: the back pressure device is connected with the piston cylinder device through the exhaust pipe, provides back pressure to press the piston back to the first position from the second position, and ensures normal work of the piston in the cylinder working space.

Further, the first position is a position where a distance between the piston and the driving mechanism is shortest, and the second position is any position where a distance from a second side of the piston to the cylinder head is smaller than a distance from the crosshead to an end surface of a side where the cylinder and the guide cylinder are connected when the crosshead is at the first position. The beneficial effects are that: the back pressure means is capable of pressing the piston back from the second position to the first position when the piston is moved to any position at a distance from a cylinder head of the cylinder that is less than a distance between the crosshead and a cylinder wall of the guide cylinder that is in contact with the cylinder when the crosshead is at the first position.

Furthermore, the piston is movably contacted with the guide mechanism or in a loose connection mode, and the coaxiality of the piston and the contact part is ensured by means of automatic alignment of the inner wall of the working space of the cylinder at the position of the piston. The beneficial effects are that: because the piston and the guide mechanism are not fixed together any more, the installation of the guide mechanism and the position of the piston in the cylinder space have no direct influence, and the requirements on cost and assembly are reduced.

Furthermore, the contact part is arranged on the crosshead, and a concave part is also arranged on the side wall where the contact part is located. The piston has the advantages that the contact part needs to push the piston to move, so that the processing technology requirement on the contact surface of the contact part is high, and the arranged concave part can reduce the processing technology requirement and the processing cost and the material cost.

Furthermore, the crosshead is provided with at least one oil groove and one lubricating hole, the groove in contact with the piston is the oil groove, and the groove in contact with the connecting rod is the lubricating hole. The beneficial effects are that: through the oil groove with the cooperation of lubrication hole has guaranteed that lubricating oil gets into can not be because behind the oil groove the connecting rod with the contact of cross head will the oil groove is stifled died, makes lubricating oil get into smoothly the cross head round pin with between the bearing, reduce the cross head round pin with friction between the bearing has improved the reliability of equipment.

Further, the backpressure device is provided with an air pressure threshold value, when the air pressure in the backpressure device is not smaller than the air pressure threshold value, the backpressure device provides backpressure, the exhaust pipe enters the air cylinder working space, the air pressure between the second side and the air cylinder cover is adjusted, and the piston is pressed back to the first position from the second position. The beneficial effects are that: since the air pressure threshold is set by the air pressure device, it is ensured that the back pressure device can provide sufficient air pressure to press the piston from the second position back to the first position when the piston is in the second position.

Furthermore, the air pressure in the back pressure device is provided by a piston cylinder device of the previous stage, the piston cylinder device of the previous stage is connected with the air inlet pipe of the piston cylinder device, and the air pressure generated by the piston cylinder device of the previous stage enters the back pressure device through the exhaust pipe after entering the cylinder working space from the air inlet pipe until the air pressure reaches the air pressure threshold value set by the back pressure device. The beneficial effects are that: providing air pressure to said back pressure means through said superior piston cylinder means to enable said back pressure means to provide the air pressure required to compress said piston from said second position back to said first position.

Further, the piston cylinder device is made of metal or nonmetal, and the metal includes: cast iron, cast aluminium, forged steel metalloid material, nonmetal material includes: the piston cylinder device is made of non-metal materials when the working pressure of the piston cylinder device is less than 3bar, and the piston cylinder device is made of metal materials when the working pressure is not less than 3 bar. The beneficial effects are that: the piston cylinder device has wide applicability, and the piston cylinder device made of proper materials is selected according to different use occasions.

The invention also provides a working method of the piston cylinder device, which comprises the following steps:

s1: setting a backpressure threshold value of a backpressure device;

s2: pressurizing a cylinder workspace to the backpressure threshold of the backpressure device;

s3: the driving mechanism drives the guide mechanism to drive the first end face to push the piston from the first position to the second position;

s4: the guide mechanism drives the first end face to return to the first position from the second position under the action of the driving mechanism;

s5: the back pressure device provides back pressure to the cylinder working space to press the piston from the second position back to the first position.

The working method of the piston cylinder device has the beneficial effects that: the reliability of the piston cylinder device is improved, and the coaxiality requirement between the guide mechanism and the piston is reduced.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a front sectional view of a piston cylinder assembly in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front cross-sectional view of a piston in a first position in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a front cross-sectional view of the piston being urged to a second position by the guide mechanism in one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a front cross-sectional view of a guide mechanism urging the piston to a second position and then back again in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a front cross-sectional view of a piston, cylinder and back pressure device in an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the contact portion of the present invention.

The codes in the figures are respectively:

1-a drive mechanism; 11-a connecting rod; 12-a crankshaft; 121-crankshaft counterbalance; 13-a bearing;

2-a guiding mechanism; 21-a guide cylinder; 22-crosshead; 221-oil groove; 222-a lubrication hole; 223-an exhaust groove; 224-an exhaust groove; 23-crosshead pin; 24-a bearing; a-a contact; b-a recess;

3-a cylinder; 31-cylinder liner; 32-cylinder head; 321-cooling fins; 33-an air inlet pipe; 331-an intake valve; 34-an exhaust pipe; 341-temperature measuring hole; 342-an exhaust valve; 35-a heat sink; 36-reinforcing ribs;

4-a piston; 41-a piston ring;

5-back pressure device.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention. Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. As used herein, the word "comprising" and similar words are intended to mean that the element or item listed before the word covers the element or item listed after the word and its equivalents, but does not exclude other elements or items.

In view of the problems in the prior art, the piston-cylinder device includes a driving mechanism, a guiding mechanism, a cylinder, a piston, and a back pressure device, the guiding mechanism has a contact portion movably connected to the piston, the cylinder has a cylinder working space for accommodating the piston, the cylinder is connected to the guiding mechanism, the contact portion reciprocates in the guiding mechanism along with the movement of the driving mechanism and pushes the piston from a first position to a second position during the reciprocating movement, the piston includes a first side connected to the contact portion and a second side disposed opposite to the first side, and the back pressure device adjusts a gas pressure near the second side to push the piston from the second position back to the first position.

Taking the piston cylinder structure shown in fig. 1-3 as an example, the piston cylinder device comprises a driving mechanism 1, a guiding mechanism 2, a cylinder 3, a piston 4 and a back pressure device 5, the guide mechanism 1 is provided with the contact part a movably connected with the piston 4, the cylinder 3 is provided with a cylinder working space for accommodating the piston 4, the cylinder 3 is connected with the guide mechanism 2, the contact part a reciprocates in the guide mechanism 2 along with the movement of the driving mechanism 1, and pushes the piston 4 from a first position to a second position during the reciprocating motion, the piston 4 including a first side connected to the contact portion a, and a second side disposed opposite the first side, the back pressure device 5 adjusting a gas pressure near the second side to press the piston 4 from the second position back to the first position.

In this embodiment, the wire guiding mechanism and the piston may be loosely connected by a piston rod or other connecting device to realize indirect fixed connection between the piston and the guiding mechanism.

In some possible embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, the driving mechanism 1 is disposed on a side away from the back pressure device 5, the driving mechanism 1 includes a connecting rod 11 and a crankshaft 12, and the crankshaft 12 and the connecting rod 11 are connected with each other to drive the connecting rod 11 to swing; the crankshaft 12 is further provided with a crankshaft balance weight 121, the balance weight 121 is arranged on one side of the crankshaft 12 far away from the connecting rod 11, and the crankshaft 12 and the connecting rod 11 are fixedly connected through a bearing 13.

In a possible embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the guiding mechanism 2 is disposed between the driving mechanism 1 and the air cylinder 3, the guiding mechanism 2 includes a guiding cylinder 21 and a crosshead 22, and a crosshead pin 23 is further disposed on the crosshead 22; the guide mechanism 2 and the drive mechanism 1 are connected and fixed by the crosshead pin 23 and the bearing 24, so that the connecting rod 11 drives the contact portion a of the crosshead 22 to reciprocate horizontally in the guide cylinder 21.

In some possible embodiments, the side wall where the contact portion a is located is further provided with a concave portion b, the contact portion a needs to push the piston 4 to move, so that the requirement on the machining process of the contact surface of the contact portion a is high, and the concave portion b can reduce the requirement on the machining process and reduce the machining cost and the material cost.

In some possible embodiments, the crosshead 22 between the connecting rod 11 and the piston 4 is further provided with 2 grooves, the groove in contact with the piston 4 is an oil groove 221, when the piston cylinder device operates, lubricating oil enters the crosshead pin 23 and the bearing 24 from the oil groove 221 to reduce friction between the crosshead pin 23 and the bearing 24, meanwhile, the oil groove 221 is provided to enable the crosshead 22 to have the contact portion a for pushing the piston 4 to move, the groove in contact with the connecting rod 11 is a lubricating hole 222 to ensure that the lubricating oil does not block the oil groove 221 due to contact between the connecting rod 11 and the crosshead 22 after entering the oil groove 221, and the lubricating hole 222 is provided to enable the lubricating oil to smoothly enter between the crosshead pin 23 and the bearing 24.

In some possible embodiments, the crosshead 22 is further provided with a vent groove 223 and a vent groove 224 which are symmetrical about the central axis of the oil groove 221 and the lubrication hole 222, so as to vent gas overflowing from between the piston 4 and the inner wall of the cylinder working space to the outside of the cylinder piston device when the cylinder is in operation, and prevent the overflowing gas from being stored between the crosshead 22 and the piston 4 and affecting the contact between the crosshead 22 and the piston 4.

In some possible embodiments, as shown in fig. 3, the cylinder 3 is disposed on a side away from the driving mechanism 1, the cylinder 3 includes a cylinder sleeve 31 and a cylinder cover 32, the cylinder sleeve 31 and the cylinder cover 32 together form the cylinder working space, and the piston 4 is disposed in the cylinder working space; the cylinder 3 and the guide cylinder 21 are fixed through bolts, and an air inlet pipe 33 and an air outlet pipe 34 are further arranged on the cylinder cover 32.

In some specific embodiments, the cylinder 3 is further provided with a heat sink 35 for cooling the cylinder and a reinforcing rib 36 for ensuring the strength of the cylinder, the cylinder head 32 is also provided with a heat sink 321 for cooling, the exhaust pipe 34 is provided with a temperature detection hole 341 for monitoring the working temperature in the cylinder 3, and the exhaust pipe 34 and the intake pipe 33 are respectively provided with an exhaust valve 342 and an intake valve 331 for preventing reverse circulation of gas.

In some specific embodiments, as shown in fig. 4, the piston 4 is disposed in the cylinder working space, and the position of the piston 4 near the second side is provided with 3 piston rings 41 for ensuring air tightness between the piston 4 and the inner wall of the cylinder working space. The number of piston rings is not particularly limited in this embodiment.

In some specific embodiments, as shown in fig. 2, 3 and 5, a back pressure device 5 is disposed downstream of the gas outlet of the exhaust pipe 34, the back pressure device 5 is provided with a gas pressure threshold value, when the gas pressure in the back pressure device 5 is not less than the gas pressure threshold value, the back pressure device 5 provides back pressure to enter the cylinder working space through the exhaust pipe 34, and adjusts the gas pressure between the second side and the cylinder head 32 to press the piston 4 from the second position to the first position.

Preferably, a back pressure valve 5 is arranged at the downstream of a gas outlet of the exhaust pipe 34, the back pressure valve 5 is connected with the exhaust pipe 34 of the cylinder head 32 through a threaded joint, a spring is pressed or loosened through an adjusting part on the back pressure valve 5, an air pressure threshold of the back pressure valve 5 is set, when the air pressure in a pipeline between the second side of the piston 4 and the back pressure valve 5 reaches the set air pressure threshold, a valve core of the back pressure valve 5 can be pushed open, the back pressure valve 5 exhausts gas or fluid into the cylinder working space, and the adjustment of the gas pressure between the second side of the piston 4 and the cylinder head 32 side is completed. The device for providing back pressure in the present embodiment is not limited to the back pressure valve, and may be other forms of air pressure adjusting devices.

In some specific embodiments, a piston rod may be disposed between the guiding mechanism and the piston, and the piston rod is connected to the guiding mechanism without a fixed connection to the piston. In this embodiment, the connecting device between the guiding mechanism and the piston is not limited to the piston rod, and any connecting structure may not be provided between the piston and the guiding mechanism, or a loose connection manner may be adopted, and the coaxiality between the piston and the contact portion is ensured by means of the automatic alignment of the inner wall of the working space of the cylinder at the position of the piston.

In some specific embodiments, when the gas pressure in the cylinder working space is not less than 3bar, the material of the piston-cylinder device is a metal material, such as cast iron, cast aluminum, and forged steel.

In other embodiments, when the gas pressure in the cylinder working space is less than 3bar, the piston cylinder device is made of a non-metal material, such as: nylon, polyetheretherketone resin, polyurethane.

In some embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a method of operating a piston cylinder assembly, comprising the steps of:

s1: setting a backpressure threshold value of a backpressure device;

s2: pressurizing a cylinder workspace to the backpressure threshold of the backpressure device;

s3: the driving mechanism drives the guide mechanism to drive the first end face to push the piston from the first position to the second position;

s4: the guide mechanism drives the first end face to return to the first position from the second position under the action of the driving mechanism;

s5: the back pressure device provides back pressure to the cylinder working space to press the piston from the second position back to the first position.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail hereinabove, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to these embodiments. However, it is to be understood that such modifications and variations are within the scope and spirit of the present invention as set forth in the following claims. Moreover, the invention as described herein is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or of being carried out in various ways.