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US 2024/0247733 A1Published application
Automatic Gas Valve with Concentric Solenoid
OwnerZachary Stephan Sandstrom, Brandon Heath Flaniganinventors
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Abstract
A valve with an inlet and an outlet has a solenoid valve as well as a pressure regulator within a housing. When the solenoid valve is off, no flow proceeds to the pressure regulator or outlet. When the solenoid valve is on, the pressure regulator functions as designed to regulate pressure out the outlet. The solenoid valve may have a seal acting on a second orifice and the pressure regulator may have a poppet acting on a first orifice. The first and second orifices may be parallel, colinear, and/or coaxial for many embodiments.
Claims20
A gas valve with regulator comprising:
- a housing having a gas inlet and a gas outlet;
- a gas pressure regulator having a first orifice located intermediate the gas inlet and gas outlet in the housing;
- a solenoid operated valve acting on a second orifice located intermediate the gas inlet and gas outlet in the housing and disposed in series with the gas pressure regulator closer to the gas inlet than the first orifice, said solenoid operated valve selectively operable to either permit flow through the second orifice in an on configuration or prevent flow through the second orifice in an off configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.