Drain valve and valve arrangement
AssigneeDanfoss A/S
InventorsGiriraj Verma, Rajendren Gurumoorthy, Shrikant Chandrakant Kulkarni, Niels P. Vestergaard
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Abstract
A valve arrangement according to the present disclosure includes a valve module and a drain valve. The valve module includes first and second functional spaces, and an attachment interface defining a passage into one of the first or second functional spaces. The drain valve includes a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet formed through a common connector part that is connectable to the attachment interface to connect the fluid inlet of the drain valve to the second functional space and the at least one fluid outlet to the first functional space.
Claims19
A valve arrangement comprising:
- a valve module including first and second functional spaces, and an attachment interface defining a passage into one of the first or second functional spaces;
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- a drain valve including a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet formed through a common connector part, the common connector part being connectable to the attachment interface to attach the drain valve to the valve module;
- wherein the fluid inlet of the drain valve is fluidly connected to the second functional space and the at least one fluid outlet is fluidly connected to the first functional space when the common connector part is connected to the attachment interface;
- wherein the common connector part is connectable to the attachment interface in at least two different orientations to position the drain valve in at least two different orientations relative to the valve module;
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- wherein the fluid inlet of the drain valve connects to the second functional space in each of the at least two different orientations and the at least one fluid outlet connects to the first functional space in each of the at least two different orientations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.