Valve device in a motor vehicle
AssigneeContinental Automotive GmbH
InventorsPeter KOHLEN, Rainer Johannes MONTIGNY, Stefan KOPP
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Abstract
A valve device for a fuel cell arrangement in a motor vehicle includes: a housing; a flow channel extending in the housing; a flap configured to influence a flow cross-section in the flow channel; a shaft to which the flap is attached, the shaft being rotatably supported in the housing; a drive configured to drive the flap via the shaft; a valve seat arranged in the flow channel; and a seal including polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) arranged on a radially peripheral edge of the flap, the seal being configured to contact the valve seat with the flap In a closed position of the flap, so that the shaft passes through the flap at an angle. The seal includes a spring.
Claims10
1-9. (canceled)
A valve device for a fuel cell arrangement in a motor vehicle, the valve device comprising:
- a housing;
- a flow channel extending in the housing;
- a flap configured to influence a flow cross-section in the flow channel;
- a shaft to which the flap is attached, the shaft being rotatably supported in the housing;
- a drive configured to drive the flap via the shaft;
- a valve seat arranged in the flow channel;
- and
- a seal comprising polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) arranged on a radially peripheral edge of the flap, the seal being configured to contact the valve seat with the flap in a closed position of the flap, so that the shaft, passes through the flap at an angle,
- wherein the seal comprises a spring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.