Electromechanical valve and a sorting manifold comprising a plurality of stacked such valves

Abstract

An electromechanical valve (10), comprising in a housing (20), a valve mechanism. The valve mechanism comprises a core (34) of magnetizable material surrounded by a coil (32) to be supplied with excitation current, a stack (36) of plates of magnetic material secured in a first end thereof, and a valve seat (38). The stack (36) of plates is provided in a space between the core (34) and the valve seat (38) to open/close the valve in response to an excitation current supplied to said coil (32) by displacing the stack (36) of plates from the valve seat when excitation current is supplied to the coil (32), the stack of plates providing a return spring force when the stack of plates is attracted to by an energized coil, wherein the core (30) is plate shaped and less than 3 mm thick.

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