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US 2004/0232371 A1Published application
Piezoelectrically actuated fluid valve
AssigneeContinential Teves AG & Co. oHG
InventorsRonald Bayer, Ulrich Neumann, Jurgen Bohm, Johann Jungbecker, Ingo Viehbock
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Abstract
In a piezoelectrically actuated fluid valve the bending transducer includes another bearing point at its second end remote from the immovable bearing and the valve closure member points to the valve seat in a defined partial span width between the two ends of the bending transducer.
Claims12
1-11. (Cancelled)
Piezoelectrically actuated fluid valve, in particular for an electronically controllable motor vehicle brake system, comprising:
- a valve housing opening into which is at least one flow channel, at whose port a valve seat is provided with which a valve closure member is associated that is operable by a piezoelectric bending transducer arranged in the valve housing for opening and closing the valve seat, said bending transducer being configured as a transverse beam that is fixed in the area of its first end in the valve housing by means of an immovable bearing, including an electrical contacting in the area of the immovable bearing for the actuation of the bending transducer, wherein the bending transducer includes an additional bearing point in the valve housing at its second end remote from the immovable bearing, and in that the valve closure member points to the valve seat in a defined partial span width, preferably at half the span width, between the two ends of the bending transducer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.