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US 12,624,712 B2Granted
Valve module system
AssigneeFesto AG & Co.
InventorMartin Maichl
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Abstract
Valve module system for supplying compressed air to a compressed air consumer, in which valve modules can be provided with differently configured channel plates in order to enter into fluid communication with fluid channels of a carrier plate, with several connecting channels are formed, which are designed to connect a first valve connection and a second valve connection of a valve assembly to a channel opening of a fluid channel.
Claims16
A valve module system for supplying compressed air to a compressed-air consumer, comprising:
- a carrier plate with an interface surface which is provided with at least one interface having a connection area which is provided with a plurality of channel openings for the attachment of a valve module,
- wherein each channel opening being connected to a fluid channel formed in the carrier plate,
- further comprising at least one valve module having a valve housing which rests with a interface surface at least partially on the respective interface and which has a plurality of shafts, which shafts are aligned parallel to one another and whose shaft openings are arranged on a valve housing end face in a common shaft opening plane which is aligned transversely to the interface surface,
- further comprising at least one valve assembly which is accommodated in one of the shafts, wherein a first valve connection and a second valve connection being formed on an end face of the valve assembly, which end face is arranged in the region of the shaft opening, and
- wherein a valve seat and an electrically actuatable valve member, which is movable between a closed position for the valve seat and an open position for the valve seat are arranged in a first control channel associated with the first valve connection and/or are arranged in a second control channel associated with the second valve connection,
- wherein the valve housing is provided with a channel plate which is connected in a sealing manner to the valve housing end face or to the valve assembly by means of a first coupling surface and which bears in a sealing manner against the connection area by means of a second coupling surface,
- wherein a plurality of connecting channels being formed in the channel plate for connecting the first valve connection and the second valve connection to a respective channel opening of the at least one interface.
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