Air intake control valve
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasato ISHII, Yusuke Yoshida
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Abstract
An air intake control valve includes a body extending to divide an inner portion of a surge tank of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine into two portions, the body serving as a divided surface to divide the inner portion of the surge tank into the two portions, a valve element operated to rotate for opening and closing a fluid passage formed at the body, and a seal member sealing between a sealed surface of the surge tank and an outer periphery of the body, the seal member including a seal portion constituted by two contact portions that make contact with the sealed surface in a state where the two contact portions extend in directions opposite from each other relative to the divided surface.
Claims19
An air intake control valve, comprising:
- a body extending to divide an inner portion of a surge tank of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine into two portions, the body serving as a divided surface to divide the inner portion of the surge tank into the two portions;
- a valve element operated to rotate for opening and closing a fluid passage formed at the body;
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- a seal member sealing between a sealed surface of the surge tank and an outer periphery of the body, the seal member including a seal portion constituted by two contact portions that make contact with the sealed surface in a state where the two contact portions extend in directions opposite from each other relative to the divided surface.
An air intake control valve comprising:
- a body dividing an inner portion of a surge tank into two portions;
- a valve element operated to rotate for opening and closing a fluid passage formed at the body;
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- a seal member sealing between a sealed surface of the surge tank and an outer periphery of the body, the seal member including a seal portion constituted by two contact portions that make contact with the sealed surface in a state where the two contact portions extend in directions away from each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.