Fluid control valve
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMotonobu Hasegawa, Masato Ishii, Yusuke Yoshida
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Abstract
A fluid control valve, which includes a body forming a fluid passage and including a sealing surface positioned in the fluid passage, a valve body configured to rotate between an open position and closed position within the fluid passage, an elastic sealing member provided at a rim portion of the valve body, and a lip portion extended from the elastic sealing member to be directed towards a center portion of the valve body. The lip portion contacts the sealing surface and a surface of the lip portion facing the sealing surface is exposed to the fluid passage.
Claims18
A fluid control valve, comprising:
- a body forming a fluid passage and including a sealing surface positioned in the fluid passage;
- a valve body configured to rotate between an open position and closed position within the fluid passage;
- an elastic sealing member provided at a rim portion of the valve body;
- and
- a lip portion extended from the elastic sealing member to be directed towards a center portion of the valve body;
- wherein
- the lip portion contacts the sealing surface and a surface of the lip portion facing the sealing surface is exposed to the fluid passage.
A fluid control valve, comprising:
- a body forming a fluid passage and including a sealing surface positioned in the fluid passage;
- a valve body configured to rotate between an open position and closed position within the fluid passage;
- an elastic sealing member provided at a rim portion of the valve body;
- and
- a lip portion extended from the elastic sealing member and configured to contact the sealing surface when the valve body is at the closed position;
- wherein
- the lip portion is provided at an outer peripheral surface of the elastic sealing member to incline towards a center portion of the valve body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.