Hydraulic oil control valve and valve timing adjustment device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorFutoshi KAWAMURA
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Abstract
A hydraulic oil control valve is coaxially disposed with a rotational axis of a valve timing adjustment device. The hydraulic oil control valve includes a sleeve and a spool that is slidably moved in an axial direction within the sleeve in a radial direction. The sleeve includes an inner sleeve disposed radially outside of the spool and an outer sleeve defining an axial hole extending in the axial direction. The inner sleeve is inserted into the axial hole. The outer sleeve is fixed to an end portion of one shaft when an axial force is applied to the outer sleeve in the axial direction. An inner sleeve end portion of the inner sleeve in the axial direction away from the actuator protrudes from the outer sleeve away from the actuator in the axial direction.
Claims5
A hydraulic oil control valve for a valve timing adjustment device, the valve timing adjustment device being configured to adjust valve timing of a valve and fixed to an end portion of one shaft that is a drive shaft or a driven shaft, the driven shaft being configured to selectively open and close the valve with a driving force transmitted from the drive shaft, the hydraulic oil control valve being coaxially disposed with a rotational axis of the valve timing adjustment device and configured to control a flow of a hydraulic oil supplied from a hydraulic oil supply source, the hydraulic oil control valve comprising:
- a tubular sleeve;
- a spool that has an end portion in contact with an actuator and that is slidably moved by the actuator in an axial direction within the sleeve in a radial direction, wherein
- the sleeve includes:
- an inner sleeve disposed outside of the spool in the radial direction;
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- an outer sleeve defining therein an axial hole extending in the axial direction, the inner sleeve being inserted into the axial hole,
- the outer sleeve is configured to be fixable to the end portion of the one shaft by an axial force applied to the outer sleeve in the axial direction,
- the inner sleeve has an inner sleeve end portion that is an end portion of the inner sleeve in the axial direction away from the actuator, and
- the inner sleeve end portion extends beyond the outer sleeve away from the actuator in the axial direction.
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