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US 11,035,475 B2Granted
Valve provided with a stabilizing member secured to the flap and exhaust line equipped with such a valve
AssigneeFaurecia Systemes D'Echappement
InventorsGilbert Delplanque, Ronan Botella, Yannick Bredent
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Abstract
A valve comprises a flap, a tubular valve body defining an exhaust gas flow passage, and a device to guide the flap relative to the valve body to allow the flap to pivot relative to the valve body around a pivot axis between a closing position and a freed position of the exhaust gas flow passage. The flap has two large faces substantially parallel to one another and connected to one another by an edge of the flap. The guide device comprises a pin, a distal, end and a base. The valve also comprises a stabilizing member secured to the flap.
Claims20
A valve comprising:
- a flap;
- a tubular valve body defining an exhaust gas flow passage;
- a guiding device to guide the flap relative to the tubular valve body to allow the flap to pivot relative to the tubular valve body around a pivot axis between a closing position and a freed position of the exhaust gas flow passage, the flap having two large faces substantially parallel to one another and connected to one another by an edge of the flap, the guiding device comprising a pin including:
- a distal end, traversed by the pivot axis, bearing against the tubular valve body, and
- a base, which defines a bearing face opposite the distal end and traversed by the pivot axis, and wherein the base has at least one slot in which the edge of the flap is received;
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- a stabilizing member secured to the flap, the stabilizing member having two protruding portions, each protruding portion protruding opposingly from the pivot axis beyond a respective one of the two large faces of the flap, each protruding portion being in contact with the bearing face of the pin, and wherein at least one of the two protruding portions has a support face in contact with the bearing face of the pin, the support face being planar.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.