Valve module system
AssigneeFesto AG & Co.
InventorsMartin Maichl, Martin Kilb
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Abstract
A valve module system for supplying compressed air to a compressed air consumer, in which valve modules are provided with differently configured channel plates in order to enter into fluidic communication with fluid channels of a support plate. At least one fluid channel configured in the support plate, which opens out at a coupling surface of the support plate, is associated with a sensor from the group of a: pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a flow sensor, a humidity sensor, which is electrically connected to a control apparatus and which is configured for providing an electrical sensor signal to the control apparatus.
Claims19
A valve module system for supplying compressed air to a compressed air consumer, comprising:
- a support plate which support plate is provided with one or more interfaces at an interface area, each interface being configured for attaching a valve module and comprising a connection area which connection area is provided with a plurality of channel openings, wherein each channel opening is connected to a fluid channel provided in the support plate, and to one or more valve modules, wherein each of the valve modules comprises a valve housing in which valve housing one or more valve assemblies are accommodated and which valve housing is supported with a narrow side partly on the respective interface, and wherein the valve module system further comprises a channel plate, which channel plate is sealingly connected to the valve housing by a first coupling surface and which channel plate bears sealingly against the connection area by a second coupling surface aligned in particular parallel to the narrow side, a plurality of connection channels being formed in the channel plate, which plurality of connection channels are each formed for a connection between one of the valve assemblies and one of the channel openings, wherein at least one fluid channel formed in the support plate, which fluid channel opens out at a coupling surface of the support plate, which fluid channel is associated with a sensor from the group of:
- a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a flow sensor, a humidity sensor, which sensor is electrically connected to a control apparatus and which sensor is configured to provide an electrical sensor signal to the control apparatus, wherein the valve housing comprises one or more pits which one or more pits are aligned parallel to one another and whose pit openings are arranged in a common pit opening plane aligned transversely to the narrow side, the pits each accommodating valve assemblies which valve assemblies comprise a first valve connection and a second valve connection on a front surface arranged in the region of the pit opening, wherein in a first control channel associated with the first valve connection and in a second control channel associated with the second valve connection a valve seat and an electrically controllable valve member movable between a closed position for the valve seat and an open position for the valve seat is arranged, and wherein the channel plate comprises an individual fluidic connection of the first valve connection, the second valve connection and a supply connection with a respectively assigned connection channel for each valve assembly accommodated in the valve housing.
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