Throttle device
AssigneeAisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichi Kimura
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Abstract
A throttle device includes a rotating member coupled to a throttle shaft and rotated by a drive source, and a coil spring interposed between a throttle body and the rotating member and configured to bias the throttle valve toward a default position. The coil spring has a first spring portion, a second spring portion, and an intermediate hook portion for connecting the first spring portion and the second spring portion. The rotating member includes an inner periphery supporting portion that supports an inner peripheral side of the first spring portion, an outer periphery supporting portion that supports an outer peripheral side of the first spring portion, and a blocking structure for preventing the first spring portion from being fitted to an outside of the outer periphery supporting portion when assembling the coil spring.
Claims6
A throttle device, comprising:
- a throttle body including an intake passage, a throttle valve positioned in the intake passage and configured to open and close the intake passage;
- a throttle shaft coupled to the throttle valve;
- a rotating member coupled to the throttle shaft and configured to be rotated by a drive source;
- a coil spring interposed between the throttle body and the rotating member, wherein the coil spring biases the throttle valve toward a default position,
- wherein the coil spring includes a first spring portion having a first end, a second spring portion having a second end, and an intermediate hook portion connecting the first spring portion and the second spring portion;
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- wherein the first end of the first spring portion engages a first spring engaging portion of the rotating member, the second end engages a second spring engaging portion of the throttle body, and the intermediate hook portion engages at least one of a first stopper of the rotating member and a second stopper of the throttle body;
- an inner periphery supporting portion provided of the rotating member or the throttle shaft configured to support an inner peripheral side of the first spring portion;
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- an outer periphery supporting portion of the rotating member configured to support an outer peripheral side of the first spring portion,
- wherein the rotating member includes a blocking structure configured to prevent the first spring portion from being fitted into an outside of the outer periphery supporting portion when assembling the coil spring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.