Abstract: A solenoid valve which includes a valve body having a central bore from which fluid passages radially extend. A valve spool is axially slidably captured within the valve body bore to control passage of fluid among the valve body passages. An electromagnetic variable force motor is mounted on the valve body and includes a housing of ferromagnetic construction with a pole piece of ferromagnetic construction coaxial with the valve spool and surrounded by an electrical coil. An armature comprising a ball of ferromagnetic construction is positioned coaxially with the pole piece in abutting engagement with the valve spool. A coil spring is positioned to engage the ball-armature and to urge the same axially away from the pole piece. The characteristic of magnetic attraction between the ball-armature and the opposing face of the pole piece as a function of separation therebetween is substantially identical with spring rate, both preferably being a linear function of ball-armature displacement.

Abstract: A pressure regulating valve which will give a constant pressure output comprises a housing of soft magnetic material such as low carbon steel, an armature of soft magnetic carbon steel in the housing and having an outlet exhaust passageway therethrough provided with an exhaust port, an inlet for the fluid the pressure of which is regulated, a valve seat in the inlet passageway, a dual headed valve, preferably non-magnetic, one head of which coacts with the valve seat to control the inlet and the other head of which controls the exhaust port, an electrical coil for generating a magnetic flux acting on the armature with a force urging the armature inwardly of the housing in opposition to the force of the inlet fluid acting against the dual headed valve and the inner end of the armature urging the armature and valve outwardly, the valve moving with the armature to vary the gap between the valve head and valve seat in the inlet passageway whereby the output pressure is directly a function of the coil current and

Abstract: Electrohydraulic valves for use in high fluid pressure systems such as automotive anti-skid brake systems, power steering systems and machine tool systems comprising a valve body of magnetic material, a valve seat member of magnetic material having a non-magnetic insert defining the seat and a coil surrounding a portion of the valve body and the valve seat adapted to be controlled by a microcomputer to provide pulses to a ball positioned between the valve seats and thereby control the flow through the valve. In one form the valve includes a second set of opposed valve seats, a second ball, and a second coil. In each form, a sleeve surrounds the valve seats and the balls and hydraulically isolates them from the coil associated therewith.

Abstract: An electrohydraulic control system comprising a spool valve including a body having a bore. A spool is positioned in the bore for reciprocating movement within the bore. The valve body has an inlet, an outlet and an exhaust port. An electrohydraulic three-way normally closed pulse width modulated valve has an inlet communicating with the inlet to the valve body and an outlet communicating with one end of the spool. An electrohydraulic three-way normally closed ON/OFF valve has an inlet communicating with the outlet of the body and an outlet communicating with the other end of the spool. A spring yieldingly urges the spool toward the pulse width modulated valve. The spool is positioned so that it normally obstructs a path from the inlet to the outlet.

Abstract: A pulse width modulated valve comprising a valve housing including a transverse wall, an extension extending axially from the transverse wall and a peripheral wall extending axially from the periphery of the transverse wall in a direction opposite to the direction in which the axial extension extends. A pole piece extends axially inwardly of the housing and a transverse wall extends radially outwardly into engagement with the peripheral wall and is connected thereto. The pole piece defines a first seat, and a non-magnetic insert is positioned in an axial passage in the axial extension defines a second seat. A spring loaded ball has limited movement between the first and second seats. The insert defines passages to the exterior of the axial extension. A coil assembly is positioned in the housing.

Abstract: A pulse width modulated solenoid valve having a housing and includes a pole member including a pole piece extending axially inwardly of the housing, and a transverse wall extending radially outwardly into engagement with a peripheral wall. The pole piece has an axial opening therethrough and defines a first conical seat. The axial extension of the housing has an axial opening aligned with the opening of the pole. An insert is positioned in an axial opening in the axial extension and defines a second seat. A ball is interposed between the first and second seats and has limited movement between the seats. A spring yieldingly urges the ball into engagement with the second seat. A plurality of circumferentially spaced passages extend from adjacent the periphery of the ball through the axial extension of the housing at an acute angle to the axial opening in the axial extension to the periphery of the housing.

Abstract: A solenoid valve comprising a housing including a first transverse wall, a first axial extension extending from the transverse wall, and an integral peripheral wall extending axially in the opposite direction from the periphery of the transverse wall. A center pole member includes a pole extending axially within the peripheral wall of the housing and includes a second transverse wall extending radially outwardly into engagement with the peripheral wall. The center pole includes an axial extension extending in the opposite direction from the first axial extension. A coil surrounds the pole piece. The axial extensions of the housing include axial openings and the center pole includes an axial opening aligned with the openings of the axial extensions. A ball valve has limited axial movement between the seats on the center pole and second axial extension.

Abstract: This invention relates to a tool for uniformly compressing a non-resilient metal ring to a smaller diameter which comprises an outer hollow receiver provided with a handle for manually holding the receiver against turning, a threaded shaft in the receiver which at its one end within the receiver has rotatably mounted thereon a collet which upon being drawn into the receiver by rotation of the threaded shaft causes the fingers of the collet by engagement with the inner wall of the receiver to move inwardly or toward each other to thereby uniformly compress to a smaller diameter a metal ring mounted in the ends of the collet fingers.

Abstract: An accumulator-dehydrator assembly for an air conditioning system comprising an accumulator housing defining an enclosed chamber including an inlet and an outlet in the upper end and a refrigerant and oil accumulator in the lower end, and a vapor drier canister assembly comprising a one-piece plastic body defining a closed top wall, a closed side wall and an open bottom. The canister includes an integral outlet projecting into and sealingly engaging the outlet of the housing. A vapor filter is associated with the outlet of the canister such that refrigerant flows through the filter before passing through the outlet. A perforated plate is provided in the bottom of the canister for holding desiccant within the canister. A refrigerant and oil tube is mounted externally of the canister and has a lower end extending to the bottom of the chamber of the accumulator housing and has an upper end extending into the outlet of the canister. A filter is associated with the lower end of the tube.

Abstract: A mounting arrangement for clamping plastic workpieces such as replacement engine and transmission covers in the automotive aftermarket. The mounting arrangement includes a metal eyelet crimped over an annular bead on the workpiece and having a flat central portion with a mounting opening. An annular metal spacer is captured on and carried by the eyelet surrounding the mounting opening to position the head of a mounting bolt above the plane of the workpiece for access by a socket wrench or the like.

Abstract: An improved transmission fluid filter and a method of assembly wherein the filter comprises a plastic first member having a planar peripheral lip, and a sheet metal second member with a planar ledge and a continuous peripheral flange crimped over the cover lip and capturing the lip against the ledge. In accordance with the invention, a bead having an arcuate surface extends around the outside edge of the cover lip, and the flange is preformed in a continuous progressive bending or curling operation prior to engagement with the bead.

Abstract: In an oil pump inlet screen assembly adapted to be immersed in an oil sump and comprising a filter screen including a housing and a lift pipe adapted to be inserted at one end into an oil pump opening, the improvement wherein the housing and lift pipe are molded integrally of plastic material, and wherein the screen assembly further comprises a metal eyelet received over the pipe end and adapted to be press-fitted into the pump opening. The eyelet includes coaxial cylindrical portions respectively disposed internally and externally of the pipe end and an external flanged end portion which captures a circumferential rib on the outside of the pipe both to retain the eyelet on the pipe end and to function as a stop to limit press-fit insertion of the pipe end into the pump opening.

Abstract: In the fluid circulation system of a transmission having a prespecified minimum operating temperature and a minimum fluid flow requirement for operation at the minimum operating temperature, a transmission fluid filter comprising a housing having a fluid inlet and outlet, and a filter element supported in the housing. The filter element is a composite assembly of a fine filtering medium such as a phenolic resin-impregnated felt having an opening therein, and a coarse filtering media such as polyester mesh secured over the opening so as to provide through the respective media parallel continuous fluid flow paths. The surface area ratio of coarse to fine filter media is the minimum ratio sufficient to permit minimum flow through the coarse filtering media at the prespecified minimum operating temperature.

Abstract: A roller tappet includes a body defining an elongated recess opening through the lower end thereof. A roller is rotatably mounted within the recess. The recess is dimensioned to substantially encircle and enclose said roller. The tappet body is cast from a variety of materials.

Abstract: In an oil pump inlet screen assembly adapted to be immersed in an oil pump and comprising a filter screen including a housing and a lift pipe adapted to be inserted at one end into an oil pump opening, the improvement wherein the housing and lift pipe are molded integrally of plastic material, and wherein the screen assembly further comprises a metal eyelet received over the pipe end and adapted to be press-fitted into the pump opening. The eyelet includes coaxial cylindrical portions respectively disposed internally and externally of the pipe end and an external flanged end portion which captures a circumferential rib on the outside of the pipe both to retain the eyelet on the pipe end and to function as a stop to limit press-fit insertion of the pipe end into the pump opening.

Abstract: A transmission fluid filter comprising a metal base pan and a filter frame of thermoplastic construction which supports a filter medium in spaced relation to the base pan. Axially aligned openings in the frame and base pan received bolts for mounting the filter to a transmission housing. In accordance with the invention, a metal eyelet is crimped around a circumferential bead in the filter frame and has a central flat portion for absorbing the clamping stresses exerted by the mounting bolts remotely of the bead and crimp to permit high bolt retention stresses while relieving the problem of plastic creep and deformation.

Abstract: A parted annular piston ring having an outer periphery for engaging a cylinder wall of an internal combustion engine. A band of hard, wear-resistant material is secured in a groove which extends circumferentially completely around the outer periphery. The band is disposed axially between upper and lower narrow lands. An overlapping joint construction is provided at the parted ends of the ring and comprises mutually circumferentially overlappable surfaces inclined at an acute angle relative to the plane of the ring and terminating in the outer periphery of the ring along edges disposed in the upper land. The upper land is wider than the lower land, and the mutually overlappable joint surfaces terminate at their radially inward edges in the bottom side wall of the ring. The band has axial extending end edges exposed at the split, and the outer periphery of the ring has a barrel face contour such that the maximum outside diameter of the ring falls within the outer wear surface of the band.

Abstract: A parted annular piston sealing ring and a method for manufacture thereof wherein an inwardly facing ring surface adapted to be engaged by an expander-spring for expanding the ring into sealing engagement with a cylinder wall is hardened in a zone immediately adjacent the parted ring tips. Hardening of the spring-engaging surface at the ring tips reduces wear and embedment between the ring and spring in the region of the ring gap while permitting resilient flexure of the ring in regions removed from the ring gap to follow surface variations in a cylinder wall.

Abstract: In an oil pump inlet screen assembly adapted to be immersed in an oil sump and comprising a filter screen including a housing and a lift pipe adapted to be inserted at one end into an oil pump opening, the improvement wherein the housing and lift pipe are molded integrally of plastic material, and wherein the screen assembly further comprises a metal eyelet received over the pipe end and adapted to be press-fitted into the pump opening. The eyelet includes coaxial cylindrical portions respectively disposed internally and externally of the pipe end and an external flanged end portion which captures a circumferential rib on the outside of the pipe both to retain the eyelet on the pipe end and to function as a stop to limit press-fit insertion of the pipe end into the pump opening.

Abstract: A pipe joint specifically adapted for an oil lamp inlet screen, and a method of assembly therefor, comprising a metal pipe adapted at one end to be connected to an oil pump housing and a filter screen including a molded plastic screen housing having an aperture adapted to receive the other pipe end. A metal eyelet is molded into the plastic housing and extends therefrom to embrace a circumferential rib formed on the outside surface of the pipe. An annular resilient sealing ring surrounds the pipe and is captured by the eyelet in sealing compression between the circumferential rib and the housing.