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, a spool, a movement restricting portion, a fixing member. The sleeve includes an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve. The fixing member is fixed to an end portion of the outer sleeve facing the actuator. The fixing member is configured to restrict the inner sleeve from moving in a circumferential direction relative to the outer sleeve and to restrict the inner sleeve and the spool from coming off from the outer sleeve toward the actuator in the axial direction.
Claims14
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 located inward of the sleeve in a radial direction and slidably moved by the actuator in an axial direction;
- a movement restricting portion;
- and
- a fixing member, wherein
- 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 being inserted into at least a portion of the axial hole in the axial direction,
- the movement restricting portion is configured to restrict the inner sleeve from moving away from the actuator in the axial direction,
- the fixing member is fixed to an end portion of the outer sleeve facing the actuator, and
- the fixing member is configured to restrict:
- the inner sleeve from moving in a circumferential direction relative to the outer sleeve;
- and
- the inner sleeve and the spool from coming off from the outer sleeve toward the actuator in the axial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.