Exhaust gas recirculation system
AssigneeCooper-Standard Automotive (Deutschland) GmbH
InventorsBernhard Klipfel, Christoph Thiery, Jan Helber
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Abstract
An exhaust gas recirculation system having at least one cooler with a housing and at least one valve with a pivotably actuated valve member on an inlet side is characterized in that an actuator for the valve is mounted to the housing of the cooler, which is connected to the valve via at least one lever and at least one connection member such as a coupling rod, a ball-and-socket joint being provided between at least one lever and at least one connection member such as a coupling rod.
Claims15
An exhaust gas recirculation system comprising at least one cooler with a cooler housing and at least one valve with a pivotably actuated valve member located on an inlet side within a valve housing and pivoting about a valve axis which valve axis is perpendicular to a first plane, an actuator for the valve being mounted to the cooler housing, which actuator is connected to the valve via at least one lever and at least one connection member, which actuator comprises a rotatable output, wherein the axis of rotation of the rotatable output of the actuator is transversely located relative to the valve axis and wherein the rotatable output comprises one of the at least one lever located in a second plane, a ball-and-socket joint being provided between the at least one lever and the at least one connection member, wherein the first plane and the second plane are non-parallel with each other.
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