Pressure balance valve
AssigneeGlobe Union Industrial Corp.
InventorChaota Yang
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Abstract
A temperature controlling valve includes a housing and a valve core installed in the valve core, the housing including a fist end wall having a first limiting elements and a second end wall having a second limiting element, and the first and the second limiting elements being fixed to fourth openings on two ends of the valve core to decrease cross sectional areas of the fourth openings for flowing the cold and the hot waters to be less than cross sectional areas of first and second inlets to flow the cold and the hot waters of the housing, such that a pressure in the valve core is gathered well to sense a pressure difference between the cold and the hot waters precisely and balance the pressure difference.
Claims11
A pressure balance valve comprising
- a housing including a first peripheral wall, a first end wall, and a second end wall to define an internal chamber;
- the first peripheral wall including a cylinder cavity defined therein to form most part of the internal chamber, and the cavity including two annular first openings arranged on two ends thereof respectively;
- the first peripheral wall including a first inlet to flow cold water and a second inlet to flow hot water, both of which are in communication with the cavity so that the cold and the hot waters from the first and the second inlets respectively flow into the cavity, and including a first outlet to flow the cold water and a second outlet to flow the hot water, both of which communicate with the cavity so that the cold and the hot waters from the cavity flow out of the first and the second outlets individually;
- the first and the second end walls including a first and a second limiting elements to limit flowing amount disposed on inner surfaces thereof respectively;
- a valve core including a first loop, a second loop, and a pressure sensing cliff between the first and the second loops;
- the valve core including a cold-water pressure room defined between one side of the pressure sensing cliff and the first loop, and including a hot-water pressure room defined between another side of the pressure sensing cliff and the second loop;
- the valve core being slidably fitted to the cavity to slide axially;
- the valve core including at least one first pore to flow the cold water defined between the first loop and the pressure sensing cliff so as to communicate with the cold-water pressure room and the first inlet, and including at least one second pore to flow the hot water defined between the second loop and the pressure sensing cliff so as to communicate with the hot-water pressure room and the second inlet;
- the cavity including two annular first openings arranged on two ends thereof and defined by the first and the second loops respectively, and the first and the second limiting elements being placed in the first openings of the first and the second loops so that cross sectional areas of the first openings to flow the cold and the hot waters are decreased to be less than those of the first and the second inlets.
A pressure balance valve comprising
- a housing including a first peripheral wall, a first end wall, and a second end wall to define an internal chamber;
- the first peripheral wall including a cylinder cavity defined therein to form most part of the internal chamber;
- the first peripheral wall including a first inlet to flow cold water and a second inlet to flow hot water, both of which are in communication with the cavity so that the cold and the hot waters from the first and the second inlets respectively flow into the cavity, and including a first outlet to flow the cold water and a second outlet to flow the hot water, both of which communicate with the cavity so that the cold and the hot waters from the cavity flow out of the first and the second outlets individually;
- a valve core including a first loop, a second loop, and a pressure sensing cliff between the first and the second loops;
- the valve core including a cold-water pressure room defined between one side of the pressure sensing cliff and the first loop, and including a hot-water pressure room defined between another side of the pressure sensing cliff and the second loop;
- the valve core being slidably fitted to the cavity to slide axially;
- the valve core including at least one first pore to flow the cold water defined between the first loop and the pressure sensing cliff so as to communicate with the cold-water pressure room and the first inlet, and including at least one second pore to flow the hot water defined between the second loop and the pressure sensing cliff so as to communicate with the hot-water pressure room and the second inlet;
- the cavity including two annular first openings arranged on two ends thereof and defined by the first and the second loops respectively to flow the cold and the hot waters toward the first and the second outlets;
- wherein
- wherein a cross sectional area of the first inlet is at least larger than 1.26 which is a ratio of cross sectional areas of the first openings of the cavity and a cross sectional area of the first outlet;
- a cross sectional area of the second inlet is at least larger than 1.26 which is a ratio of the cross sectional areas of the first openings of the cavity and a cross sectional area of the second outlet;
- and a sum of outflow amounts of the first and the second outlets is larger than a basic flowing amount.
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