Valve, fluid control device, pressurizing device, and sphygmomanometer
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorYukiharu KODAMA
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Abstract
A valve includes a housing, a membrane, and a hole. The housing includes a flat plate having a hole connectable to an external pump, a housing component having a hole connectable to a component to which a fluid is discharged, and a valve chamber held between a housing component including the flat plate and the housing component. The membrane divides a valve chamber into a space facing the flat plate and a space facing the housing component. The hole is connected to the space facing the flat plate and the space facing the housing component. The housing component has a hole that is connectable to an outside of the housing and that allows the fluid to flow out from the valve chamber.
Claims20
A valve comprising:
- a housing including
- a first wall having at least one first hole connectable to an external pump,
- a second wall having at least one second hole connectable to a component to which a fluid is discharged, and
- a valve chamber held between the first wall and the second wall that oppose each other;
- at least one membrane dividing the valve chamber into a space facing the first wall and a space facing the second wall;
- and
- a communicating passage connecting the space facing the first wall and the space facing the second wall to each other,
- wherein the second wall has a third hole being connectable to an outside of the housing and allowing the fluid to flow out from the valve chamber, and
- wherein, when viewed in a first direction of the housing in which the first wall, the membrane, and the second wall are arranged,
- the membrane, an opening surface of the first hole facing the valve chamber, and an opening surface of the third hole facing the valve chamber overlap one another,
- the communicating passage overlaps neither the opening surface of the first hole facing the valve chamber nor the opening surface of the third hole facing the valve chamber, and
- the opening surface of the first hole facing the valve chamber and the opening surface of the third hole facing the valve chamber at least partially overlap each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.