Flow-rate control valve
AssigneeSurpass Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorMasahiro Hasunuma
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Abstract
The present invention provides a flow-rate control valve that allows for manufacturing cost reduction and has a compact size with improved ease of maintenance. The flow-rate control valve includes a lower casing provided with a channel that leads a liquid and a fluid and with a valve seat, a valve body that controls, in conjunction with the valve seat, the flow rate of the liquid and the fluid that pass through the channel, a reciprocating drive part that moves the valve body closer to or away from the valve seat, and an upper casing that houses the reciprocating drive part.
Claims4
A flow-rate control valve comprising:
- a lower casing including a channel that leads a liquid and fluid,
- and a valve seat;
- a valve body that controls, in conjunction with the valve seat, a flow rate of the liquid and the fluid that pass through the channel;
- a linear stepping motor connected to a reciprocating drive part that controls and moves the valve body in a direction closer to or away from the valve seat linearly;
- and
- an upper casing housing the reciprocating drive part,
- wherein the valve body includes:
- a flange coupled by a bellows to a fitting portion providing selective engagement in which the valve body including the fitting portion is engaged with the valve seat in various positions to vary the flow rate;
- and an insertion hole that receives a shaft body extending from the reciprocating drive part, and
- wherein the flange has a substantially disk shape;
- and a communication portion extending through inside the flange, and the communication portion linking the inside of the insertion hole with air.
A flow-rate control valve comprising:
- a casing defining a flowpath having a valve seat;
- a valve body having:
- a fitting portion that interacts with the valve seat to control a flow rate of a fluid passing through the flowpath;
- a flange connected to the fitting portion by a bellows;
- a substantially disc-shaped sliding part;
- a spring extending between the flange and the sliding part;
- and a reciprocating drive shaft extending through the sliding part, the spring and the flange to form an end with the fitting portion mounted thereon, wherein the spring urges the fitting portion in a direction away from the valve seat by the fitting portion being coupled to the sliding part through the reciprocating drive shaft;
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- a linear stepping motor directly connected to the reciprocating drive shaft that controls and moves the valve body towards and away from the valve seat linearly,
- wherein the fitting portion contacts the valve seat to create a closed position and moves away from the valve seat to create a plurality of open positions and thereby vary the flow rate,
- as the drive shaft moves between the closed position and the open position, the spring expands and contracts to minimize hysteresis of the shaft by keeping the sliding part at a substantially central position,
- in the closed position, the fitting portion contacts the valve seat, the bellows is unfolded, and the spring is compressed to provide a maximum urging force for facilitating highly accurate positional control of the fitting portion near the closed position, and
- in the open positions, the fitting portion does not contact the valve seat, the spring is at least partially expanded, and the bellows is at least partially folded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.