Monolithic pressure regulator
AssigneeGoodrich Corporation
InventorsTomasz Murawski, Tomasz Wanski
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Abstract
A monolithic pressure regulator may comprise a boding comprising a base wall, an end wall, and a side wall, a cavity within the body, an input port in fluid communication with the cavity, an output port in fluid communication with the cavity, a first vesicle configured to regulate a flow of fluid through the input port into the cavity at a source pressure to exit through the output port at a regulated pressure, wherein the first vesicle comprises a first vesicle wall contiguous with a bulkhead and at least one of the base wall or the end wall.
Claims8
A monolithic pressure regulator, comprising:
- a bulkhead;
- a body comprising a base wall, an end wall, and a side wall, the body defining an input port and an output port;
- a cavity within the body, the input port in fluid communication with the cavity, the output port in fluid communication with the cavity;
- a vesicle configured to regulate a flow of fluid through the input port into the cavity at a source pressure to exit through the output port at a regulated pressure;
- and
- a valve stem extending inward from the bulkhead to a valve head, the valve stem extending through the vesicle and through a valve guide at the end wall into the cavity,
- wherein the vesicle comprises a vesicle wall that is contiguous with the bulkhead and at least one of the base wall or the end wall,
- wherein the vesicle is disposed outward of the end wall and wherein the vesicle wall extends from an outer surface of the end wall into the bulkhead, and
- wherein the body, the vesicle wall, the bulkhead, the valve stem, and the valve head are a monolithic structure of a homogeneous material.
An article of manufacture, including:
- a bulkhead;
- a body comprising a base wall, an end wall, and a side wall, the body defining an input port and an output port;
- a cavity within the body, the input port in fluid communication with the cavity, the output port in fluid communication with the cavity;
- and
- a vesicle configured to regulate a flow of fluid through the input port into the cavity at a source pressure to exit through the output port at a regulated pressure;
- and
- a valve stem extending inward from the bulkhead to a valve head, the valve stem extending through the vesicle and through a valve guide at the end wall into the cavity,
- wherein the vesicle comprises a vesicle wall that is contiguous with the bulkhead and at least one of the base wall or the end wall,
- wherein the vesicle is disposed outward of the end wall and wherein the vesicle wall extends from an outer surface of the end wall into the bulkhead, and
- wherein the body, the vesicle wall, the bulkhead, the valve stem, and the valve head are a monolithic structure of a homogeneous material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.