Press to specification solenoid valve assembly
AssigneeAsco, L.P.
InventorsAlexander R. Determan, Matthew Tyler Hoskins
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Abstract
A method of assembling a valve can include monitoring a first fluid flow between a first port and a second port of the valve and/or pressing a poppet onto a plunger of the valve until the first fluid flow stops. The method can include monitoring a second fluid flow between the first port and a third port of the valve, energizing a coil of the valve, and pressing a cap into a body of the valve until the second fluid flow stops or until a target rate of the second fluid flow is achieved.
Claims20
A method of assembling a valve, the method comprising:
- inserting a stem of a plunger into a body of the valve from a first end of the body;
- inserting a poppet into the body from a second end of the body, the second end of the body being longitudinally opposite the first end of the body;
- initiating a first fluid flow between a first port of the body and a second port of the body, and through a first valve seat of the body;
- monitoring the first fluid flow;
- pressing the poppet towards the first end of the body and onto the stem of the plunger until the poppet reaches a first position where the first fluid flow stops;
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- attaching the poppet to the plunger at the first position where the first fluid flow stops.
A method of assembling a valve, the method comprising:
- initiating a first fluid flow between a common port and a normally closed port of the valve;
- monitoring the first fluid flow with a flow meter;
- aligning a poppet with a plunger of the valve;
- linearly pressing the poppet onto the plunger of the valve until the poppet engages a first valve seat and the first fluid flow stops;
- initiating a second fluid flow between the common port and a normally open port of the valve;
- monitoring the second fluid flow with the flow meter;
- energizing a coil of the valve to disengage the poppet from the first valve seat;
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- linearly pressing a cap having a second valve seat into a body of the valve until the poppet engages the second valve seat and the second fluid flow stops.
A method of assembling a valve, the method comprising:
- initiating a fluid flow between a common port and a normally open port of the valve;
- energizing a coil of the valve to dispose a poppet of the valve in an energized position;
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- pressing a cap having a valve seat into a body of the valve until the valve seat engages the poppet and the fluid flow stops;
- wherein pressing the cap into the body of the valve includes sealingly coupling an exterior surface of the cap with an interior surface of the body of the valve via press-fit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.