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US 2013/0200281 A1Published application
Flow control valve and method for using the same
AssigneeAktiebolaget Skf
InventorsStefan Schuermann, Ali-Akbar Inanloo, Juergen Kreutzkaemper
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Abstract
A flow control valve includes at least one inlet unit configured to permit an inflow of a liquid into the flow control valve, and at least one outlet unit configured to permit an outflow of the liquid out of the flow control valve. The inlet unit is at least partially disposed on a radial outer surface of the flow control valve.
Claims20
A flow control valve comprising:
- at least one inlet unit configured to permit an inflow of a liquid into the flow control valve, and
- at least one outlet unit configured to permit an outflow of the liquid out of the flow control valve,
- wherein the inlet unit is at least partially disposed on a radial outer surface of the flow control valve.
A flow control valve comprising:
- a valve body at least partially defining an interior chamber of the valve and having a radial direction that is perpendicular to an axial direction,
- at least one inlet unit at least partially disposed on a radially outer surface of the valve body and having at least one radially-extending through-hole configured to permit a liquid to flow into the interior chamber of valve body from the radial direction thereof, and
- at least one outlet unit configured to permit the liquid to flow out of the interior chamber of the valve body in the axial direction of the valve body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.