Pilot Valve Movably Mounted Within Or Around Main Valve Patents (Class 251/30.04)
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Patent number: 7621211Abstract: The force feedback poppet valve includes a valve body having a main chamber, a first port, and a second port. The force feedback poppet valve further includes a main poppet disposed within the main chamber and movable between an open position and a closed position to control fluid flow between the first port and the second port. The main poppet forms a control chamber within the main chamber. The force feedback poppet valve further includes a first passage communicating the control chamber with the second port, a second passage communicating the control chamber with the first port, and a pilot valve having a pilot poppet for controlling fluid flow between the control chamber and the first port through the second passage. The force feedback poppet valve further includes a pressure compensator disposed within the main poppet, and fluidly connected to the second port via the first passage.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignees: Caterpillar Inc., Caterpillar Japan LtdInventors: Pengfel Ma, Philippe Georges Vande Kerckhove
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Patent number: 7591281Abstract: In an electromagnetic valve, a valve member is slidably installed in a housing to open and close a valve hole. A moving core is slidably installed in the housing, and a coil generates a magnetomotive force to attract the moving core to one side when it is energized. The valve shaft links a motion of the moving core with a motion of the valve member. A bellows surrounds the valve shaft to form a cylindrical inner space between the valve shaft and itself. The bellows is subjected to both positive and negative pressures to extend and shrink in accordance with the motions of the valve member and the moving core. An inner volume of the inner space increasing and decreasing in accordance with extending and shrinking operations of the cylindrical bellows portion. The opening of the bellows and the valve shaft form a narrow opening passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2006Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Shigeto Tsuge
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Patent number: 7481412Abstract: A solenoid-operated cutoff valve for use with fuel cells has a movable member disposed in a guide housing for displacement upon energization of a solenoid. When the movable member is displaced, a pilot valve is unseated from a pilot valve seat. A fluid in a communication chamber flows through a pilot passage into an output port. The communication chamber is divided into a first communication chamber and a second communication chamber by a diaphragm. Under a pressure difference developed between the first communication chamber and the second communication chamber, a main valve of a valve head is unseated from a valve seat of a valve housing, opening the solenoid-operated cutoff valve.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Keihin CorporationInventors: Kazuki Ishikawa, Yoshio Saito, Toshiaki Kamo, Katsumi Sahoda, Osamu Ichikawa, Kouji Miyano, Tatsuya Sugawara
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Patent number: 7422033Abstract: A spool type control valve is operated by an electrically driven pilot valve. A pilot piston is attached to the control spool. As an electrical actuator moves the pilot spool, a greater pressure is applied to one side of the pilot piston than the other side, which causes movement of the control spool. When the control spool reaches the desired position, its positional relationship to the pilot valve defines a pressure differential across the pilot piston which exerts a net force on the control spool that counterbalances a spring force acting on the control spool. This defines an equilibrium position at which the control spool remains until subsequent motion of the pilot spool occurs which alters the pressure differential across the pilot piston.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: HUSCO International, Inc.Inventor: Dennis R. Barber
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Patent number: 7392971Abstract: Disclosed is an infinitely variable directional valve comprising a seat slide on which a valve cone is formed which is prestressed counter to a valve seat in the initial position of the directional valve. The directional valve is configured with a pilot control device wherefore a pilot control valve seat which interacts with a pilot control valve cone is provided inside the closing cone.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2004Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AGInventor: Rainer Biener
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Patent number: 7341236Abstract: A pilot operated valve has a main poppet that selectively controls flow of fluid between first and second ports in response to pressure in a control chamber on one side of the main poppet. The main poppet has an aperture extending between the control chamber and the first port. A pilot piston slides within the aperture and has the pilot passage with a pilot orifice and a first disk spring biases the pilot piston with respect to the main poppet. A pilot valve element selectively engages the pilot orifice to open and close the pilot passage and thereby controls motion of the main poppet. Forces from the first disk spring and a pressure differential between control and pilot chambers alter a position of the pilot valve seat with respect to the main poppet. The change in position compensates for effects on valve operation due to variation of the pressure at the two ports.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: HUSCO International, Inc.Inventors: Dwight B. Stephenson, Xiaolong Yang, Randall J. Jackson, R. Christopher Hughes
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Patent number: 7270310Abstract: A first connecting pipe of an electromagnetic valve connects with the fuel tank, and a second connecting pipe connects with a canister. A spring urges a moving core and a first valve body in a closing direction of a electromagnetic valve. A shaft of the first valve body includes a fluid-amount controlling portion on the top. The fluid-amount controlling portion is inserted to the communicating passage while a contact member of bellows seats on a convex of a rubber member, and is tapered in an inserted direction. When a coil is energized, the first valve body is lifted in the direction in which the fluid-amount controlling portion retracts from the communicating passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: DENSO CorporationInventor: Shinsuke Takakura
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Patent number: 7198249Abstract: An electromagnetic shuttle valve with two valve passages (5, 6) provides an increased cross-section of the second valve passage (6) by increasing the diameter of the second valve closure member (8). To this end, a compression spring (17) which biases the second valve closure member towards the first valve closure member (7) is arranged inside the second valve closure member (8) and the second valve seat (27). It abuts a radial projection formed on the housing sleeve (1) below the second valve seat (27). In order to provide an even larger cross-section of the second valve passage (6), the housing sleeve diameter can increase around the second valve seat (27). In this case, the housing sleeve can include a bulged collar 9 to provide a stop for axial movement during assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Continental Teves, Inc.Inventor: Yuji Nakayasu
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Patent number: 7192002Abstract: A flush valve includes a body having an inlet an outlet and a seat between the inlet and the outlet. The seat defines an opening therethrough. A cover is attached to the body. A piston is engageable with the seat and movable within the body and cover to an extent permitted by a stop formed in the body or cover. The piston includes a guide portion extending through the seat opening and downstream of the seat. The guide portion has ribs and a skirt. The axial length of both the ribs and skirt is greater than the available piston travel so the flow passages through the seat opening at all times are defined by the skirt and ribs.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Sloan Valve CompanyInventor: Richard A. Nortier
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Patent number: 7156363Abstract: A bathroom flusher (10) includes a body having an inlet (12) in communication with a supply line and an outlet (16) in communication with a flush conduit, a valve assembly in the body positioned to close water flow between the inlet and the outlet upon sealing action of a moving member (60, 60A, 60B, 60C, 130, 210, 215, 526, or 628) at a valve seat (70, 70A, 140, 209, 251A, 526 or 625) thereby controlling flow from the inlet to the outlet, and an actuator (62) for actuating operation of the moving member. The bathroom flusher includes one of several novel sensors and is controlled by one of several novel controllers, as described. The controllers may execute a novel control algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Arichell Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Natan E. Parsons, Fatih Guler, Kay Herbert, Xiaoxiong Mo, Gregory P. Greene
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Patent number: 7080817Abstract: A valve of the pilot type including a housing with a circular cylinder end for mounting in a valve base. The housing has an inlet port, an outlet port, an internal cavity, and a flexible membrane dividing the cavity into a flow chamber and control chamber. The inlet port is in constant communication with the flow chamber, while the outlet port is in communication with the flow chamber via a valve seat formed in the housing opposite the membrane. The outlet port is formed at the face of the cylinder end. An annular seal is disposed on that face, around the outlet port, such that when the valve is mounted into the valve base, the seal is urged axially to a face of the valve base providing fluid-tight communication between the outlet port and an outlet opening in the valve base. The inlet port is formed at the lateral surface of the cylinder end, so as to provide inlet flow transverse to the axis of the cylinder end.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2004Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: Y. Stern Engineering (1989) Ltd.Inventor: Yuval Stern
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Patent number: 6994308Abstract: A solenoid gas valve having a solenoid assembly and inlet and outlet fittings is installed inside a tube. The opening and closing of the valve is operated by the pressure difference with an aid of the magnetic field. A compression spring is attached to the support cylindrical body and held against the inlet end fitting while a moving solenoid assembly is located inside the support cylindrical body. The moving solenoid assembly that consists of a stop, a flange, a sleeve and an electrical coil, is held by a second compression spring that is attached to the inside of the support cylindrical body. A small moving magnetic rod, slides inside the sleeve of the solenoid assembly. Acted by a third compression spring, the magnetic rod seals the gas outlet through the bleed orifice on the flange of the solenoid assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2004Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Inventors: Wei-Ching Wang, Chia-Ping Wang
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Patent number: 6986498Abstract: A differential pressure valve simplified in construction includes a piston integrally formed with a main valve element and arranged on the upstream side of a main valve to define a chamber for introducing refrigerant from an inlet port. The piston has an orifice and a refrigerant passage for communicating with a chamber on a back surface side of the piston. The chamber is configured such that it can be connected, via a refrigerant passage and a pilot valve element, to a chamber on the downstream side of the main valve, which communicates with an outlet port.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: TGK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisatoshi Hirota, Tokumi Tsugawa, Yuusuke Inoue
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Patent number: 6962317Abstract: The invention relates to an air blast device disposed between an inlet conduit (3) designed to be connected to a container designed to accumulate a volume of air and an outlet conduit (5), characterized in that the area (C) of the cross-section of the outlet conduit measured at its distal end is greater then the area (A) of the cross-section of the inlet conduit measured at its end located near the flow control device.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2003Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Inventor: Herve Simoens
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Patent number: 6938873Abstract: A compound valve assembly for controlling oil flow includes a first and a second valve. The first valve is a pressure relief valve including a spring-biased plunger in a side gallery opening off a primary oil supply gallery leading to a pressure-actuated device. The relief spring allows oil above a predetermined pressure to displace the plunger and to be returned to an oil sump. The side gallery is closable by a secondary valve seat and a solenoid-actuated valve head. A passage through the plunger leads to the second valve seat. When the solenoid is deactivated, oil flows through the passage, through the second valve, and is returned to the sump. When high pressure is desired at the device, the solenoid closes the second valve. Captive oil assumes the same pressure as the supply pressure, and the relief valve function is disabled, causing high pressure oil to flow to the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Thomas H. Fischer
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Patent number: 6708772Abstract: A container valve for fixed fire extinguishing systems comprises a valve body (12), a closure piston (26), one sealed end of which is introduced into the release chamber (24) and the opposite end of which has a sealing surface which can be pressed against a valve seat (22). Said closure piston (26) has a pressure compensation channel (36). A closing spring (32) exerts a spring force on the closure piston (26) in the direction of the valve seat (22). A trigger device (46) enables a drop in pressure to be created in the release chamber (24), in such a way that the closure piston (26) is displaced away from its valve seat (22), coming to rest against an end stop. A sealing element (38) seals the pressure compensation channel when the closure piston (26) rests against the end stop.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Luxembourg Patent Company S.A.Inventor: Karl Bermes
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Patent number: 6682316Abstract: A dispensing system for petrol pumps, comprising a pump, a dispensing valve in a petrol pump nozzle and an electrically controllable solenoid valve (10), characterized in that the solenoid valve (10) includes a directly acting principal valve (18) and a bypass valve (30) arranged so as to bypass the principal valve (18), and a solenoid drive (34) by which in case of a differential pressure present above the sealing seat (24) of the principal valve (18) at first only the bypass valve (30) is able to be switched to the open position, and only after a pressure compensation has, occurred at the sealing seat (24) of the principal valve (18) by the opening of the bypass valve (30) is the principal valve (18) also able to be switched to the open position.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Burkert Werke GmbH & Co.Inventor: Harald Böke
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Publication number: 20030132409Abstract: A valve arrangement for use in vacuum systems has a housing (1) with an input opening (3) and output opening (5), between which is arranged a main valve (7) with a closure member (9) biased by a first spring (11) and an auxiliary valve (15) acutable by a electromagnet (18) and having a smaller nominal width than that of the main valve (7). To simplify the valve arrangement and to be able to actuate with less energy, the closure member (9) of the main valve (7) is biased in the opening direction by a first spring (11) and the force of the first spring (11) is larger than a predetermined closing force exerted on the closure member (9) of the main valve (7) by the pressure difference between the input and output openings (3, 5) when the auxiliary valve (15) is open.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Applicant: Danfoss A/SInventor: Michael Birkelund
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Publication number: 20030020033Abstract: A solenoid valve has a main body defining a gas inlet passage, a gas outlet passage, and a cavity; a core tube forming a closure for said cavity so as to prevent an escape of gas; a cylindrical main piston slidably movable in said cavity of said main body, said main piston forming a front chamber and a back chamber in said main body, said main piston having a gas conduit for passing the gas from said gas inlet passage to said front chamber and an axial hole for passing the gas from said back chamber into said gas outlet passage with a bleed orifice at one end of said axial hole; said main piston being spring biased to a closed position; a spring biased pilot piston; and electrical coil means associated with said core tube to provide a magnetic field for movements of said pilot piston and said main piston, so that when said coil means is deenergized said pilot piston closes said outlet passage and causes a pressure equalization allowing said return spring to push said main piston to close the valve, while whenType: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventor: Chia-Ping Wang
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Patent number: 6508272Abstract: Disclosed is a valve device and a method for operating at least two valves actuated by an actuator and arranged for controlling fluid flow in at least two separate fluid lines. The valve device can simultaneously control at least two diaphragm operated valves using a single actuator. The valve device includes a pressure release mechanism constructed to change pressure in a diaphragm chamber of each diaphragm operated valve and thereby open or close the diaphragm operated valve.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2000Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Arichell Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Natan E. Parsons, David Hadley, Robert Shamitz
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Patent number: 6443420Abstract: The solenoid valve has two fluidic connections (3, 4), a solenoid (5) and a core (8) guided in a cylinder (7) within the solenoid body (6). The solenoid valve (1) is opened as a result of the movement of the core (8) when the solenoid (5) becomes magnetized. After disconnection of the solenoid (5), it is closed due to the force of a spring (27). Both the core and the closing device of the valve (1) are pressure-relieved, in that the end face of the core (8) has an effective surface which corresponds to an effective surface (18) at the valve body (14). The elastic main seat seal (20) is contained in the housing (2). The taper-ended main valve seat (13) and the compensation diameter (12) are housed in combination within a movable seat bushing (11).Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1998Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Burkert Werke GmbH & Co.Inventor: Gerhard Hettinger
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Patent number: 6390441Abstract: In a main valve having a solenoid pilot operated valve, a movable core and a hollow plunger are movably received in a sleeve extending from a pressure control chamber through an electromagnetic coil. The plunger is structurally separated from a main valve member. A shaft is slidably received in the plunger. One end of the shaft carries a pilot valve member. A spring engages at the plunger and the shaft such that the free end of the shaft projects a predetermined length beyond an end face of the plunger. As long as the coil is deenergized, the spring separates the pilot valve member from a pilot valve seat. As soon as the coil is energized, the plunger is attracted to the core, the shaft is displaced in relation to the plunger, and the pilot valve member projecting from the lower end of the plunger closes the pilot valve seat. Due to the developing pressure difference, the main valve is closed and kept in a closed state.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: TGK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Koyama, Tokumi Tsugawa, Shinji Saeki
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Patent number: 6367506Abstract: A switch valve is provided in a refrigerant circuit. The switch valve includes a first valve mechanism, a second valve mechanism, and a single valve housing incorporating the first and second valve mechanisms. The first valve mechanism is an electromagnetic valve. The first valve mechanism selectively connects and disconnects an outlet of a compressor with an inlet of a condenser in accordance with an electric current supply. The second valve mechanism is a differential pressure valve. The second valve mechanism selectively connects and disconnects the outlet of the compressor with an inlet of an evaporator in accordance with a difference between the pressure at the outlet of the compressor and the pressure at the inlet of the condenser. In this manner, the single switch valve, which includes the first and second valve mechanisms incorporated in the same valve housing, switches the refrigerant circuit between a path for a cooling operation and a path for a warming operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Pacific Industrial Company, Ltd.Inventors: Noboru Takagi, Tetsuo Hirose
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Publication number: 20020033461Abstract: In a vacuum valve including a main flow path and an auxiliary flow path for connecting a chamber port and a pump port in parallel, a main valve body for opening and closing a main valve seat in the main flow path, and an auxiliary valve body for opening and closing an auxiliary valve seat in the auxiliary flow path, the main valve body includes, in addition to a valve sealing member for opening and closing the main valve seat in a poppet manner, a flow rate adjusting portion in a gradually-tapered shape to be fitted in an inner hole of the main valve seat and the flow rate adjusting portion functions to gradually increase an exhaust flow rate when the main valve body opens after opening of the auxiliary valve body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Applicant: SMC CORPORATIONInventor: Masao Kajitani
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Publication number: 20020027211Abstract: A smooth exhaust valve includes a main flow path having a large cross-sectional area and an auxiliary flow path having a small cross-sectional area for connecting a first port and a second port in parallel, a main valve body for opening and closing the main flow path, an auxiliary valve body for opening and closing the auxiliary flow path, a first piston for opening and closing the main valve body, a second piston for opening and closing the auxiliary valve body, a first spring device for repulsing the main valve body in a valve-closing direction, a second spring device for repulsing the auxiliary valve body in a valve-closing direction, and an adjusting rod mounted to a valve casing so as to be operated from outside to move forward and rearward and for changing a compressed amount of the second spring device by operation of forward and rearward movements of the adjusting rod to adjust a repulsing force of the second spring device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2001Publication date: March 7, 2002Applicant: SMC CorporationInventor: Masao Kajitani
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Patent number: 6267349Abstract: A precision valve control for an hermetically sealed hydraulic valve system which operates with a solenoid driven magnetic actuator. The magnetic actuator forms a toroidal magnetic force field of varying strength which causes controlled movement of a core rod linked to a pilot. The pilot, in turn, causes actuation of the main disc to the desired valve position. Actual valve position is remotely ascertained, by position of the magnet (or core) within the magnetic field, by means of a Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT). The LVDT creates variable voltages predeterminately related to position of the rod within the magnetic field. The LVDT voltage is compared, by an electronic comparator, to an input command voltage, calibrated to a specific valve position. Deviation between the LVDT voltage feedback signal and input command voltage signal causes generation of an error signal which is amplified and applied to the solenoid to vary the magnetic field to correct the valve position.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1994Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: Target Rock CorporationInventors: Karl G. Gomes, Vito Liantonio
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Patent number: 6220565Abstract: A main valve (5) has a first valve seat (11) to which a compression spring (21) urges a first closure member (14). A restricting passage (16) and an actuation chamber (17) for valve closing are arranged within the first closure member (14) in order. A valve-opening holding chamber (25) is formed from an inner space defined by a fitting wall (23) with which the first closure member (14) fits at a final time of its closing movement. The actuation chamber (17) communicates with a second valve seat (31) of a pilot valve (6). A pushing spring (37) brings a second closure member (34) into closing contact with the second valve seat (31). The second valve seat (31), the first valve seat (11), the actuation chamber (17) and the valve-opening holding chamber (25) have respective sectional areas (S), (T), (U) and (V) set to values enlarging one after the other in the mentioned order.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2000Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha KosmekInventors: Keitaro Yonezawa, Tsutomu Shirakawa