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US 2016/0102614 A1Published application
Impulse duty cycle valves
AssigneeDelavan Inc.
InventorsBrandon P. Williams, Neal A. Thomson
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Abstract
A valve includes a valve housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet with a longitudinal axis defined through the valve housing. The valve also includes a toggle mechanism configured and adapted to cycle flow from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet through a plurality of different flow rates in response to repeated impulses. The toggle mechanism is also configured to hold flow rate steady between impulses.
Claims7
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A valve comprising:
- a) a valve housing including a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet with a longitudinal axis defined through the valve housing;
- b) an armature mounted within the valve housing for movement relative to the valve housing along the longitudinal axis;
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- c) a pintle mounted within the valve housing with an interior flow passage defined in the pintle in fluid communication with the fluid inlet of the valve housing, and a pintle outlet for selective fluid communication between the interior flow passage of the pintle and the fluid outlet of the valve housing, wherein the pintle and armature are configured and adapted so that repeated impulse actuation of the armature along the longitudinal axis cycles the pintle between first and second rotational positions corresponding to first and second flow rates for fluid communication from the interior flow passage of the pintle to the fluid outlet of the valve housing.
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