US 6,745,790 B2Granted

Electromagnetic valve

AssigneeSMC Corporation

InventorsHedeharu Sato, Yoshio Aso, Shinichi Yoshimura, Takumi Matsumoto

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Abstract

An electromagnetic valve having a high coupling strength between a valve portion and a solenoid portion is secured at a low cost without large-sizing the solenoid portion. Recessed portions positioned on one end side of a valve body and having inner wall faces formed by inclining faces that incline from the one end side of the valve body to the other end side towards its depth are provided on a valve body side face positioned on one end side of the valve body to be opposed to each other. Cuttings for forming caulking pieces are positioned corresponding to the recessed portions on the side wall on an opening side of a magnetic case. The valve and solenoid portions are coupled such that they are biased in directions they are fitted to each other by abutting the caulking pieces on the inclining faces to caulk them in the recessed portions

Claims5

Dependent claims

An electromagnetic valve which comprises a solenoid portion where a movable iron core driven by excitation operation to a coil is provided in a magnetic case having an opening at one end and a valve portion where a valve body which is driven by the movable iron core to switch flow paths among a plurality of ports is provided in a valve body, and where the solenoid portion and the movable iron core are coupled to each other by fitting one end side of the valve body into the opening of the magnetic case, characterized in that

recessed portions for engagement are provided on opposing side faces of the valve body on the side of a connection end side of the valve body with the solenoid portion, and inner wall faces of the recessed portions on the side of the solenoid portion are formed in inclining faces from the solenoid portion side to the other end side thereof towards a depth direction, and
on the other hand, cuttings applied for forming caulking pieces are formed on a side wall of the magnetic case positioned on the side of the opening at positions corresponding to the recessed portions, and the valve portion and the solenoid portion are coupled to each other in a state that the valve portion and the solenoid portion have been biased in a direction in which they are fitted to each other by causing the caulking pieces to abut on the inclining faces of the recessed portions to caulk the caulking pieces into the recessed portions.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.