Electromagnetic valve

An electromagnetic valve comprising:

• a flow passage through which fluid flows;
• a valve member that reciprocates in its axial direction to open or close the flow passage;
• an actuator that includes:
• a coil which is configured to generate magnetic force upon supply of electric power;
• and
• a movable core which is displaced in the axial direction due to the magnetic force generated by the coil so as to drive the valve member;
• an intermediate member that is disposed between the valve member and the movable core;
• a connecting member that connects together the valve member, the movable core, and the intermediate member in an integrally movable manner;
• a housing that accommodates the valve member, the movable core, the intermediate member, and the connecting member in a reciprocatable manner and that includes a hollow part between the housing and the actuator, the hollow part communicating with the flow passage;
• and
• a dividing unit that is provided for the valve member or the intermediate member and includes a through hole which passes through the dividing unit in its axial direction, wherein:
• the dividing unit divides the hollow part between a communicating chamber that is capable of communicating with the flow passage, and a cancel chamber that is cut off from an outside thereof;
• the intermediate member includes a communicating passage between the intermediate member and the movable core;
• the communicating passage communicates between the flow passage and the cancel chamber via the through hole and the communicating chamber;
• the valve member includes:
• an annular valving element that is engageable with an opening circumferential edge of the flow passage;
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• a cylindrical valving element supporting member that supports the valving element;
• the valving element is fixed to an outer periphery of the valving element supporting member;
• the movable core includes an axial hole that passes through the movable core in its axial direction;
• the axial hole communicates between a pre-movable core space from which fluid flows toward the movable core, and a post-movable core space into which fluid flows from the movable core in the axial direction;
• the movable core further includes a press-fitting hole which is a part of the axial hole on the intermediate member-side;
• the intermediate member further includes a first insertion hole that is located coaxially with the press-fitting hole and that passes through the intermediate member in an axial direction thereof;
• and
• the valving element supporting member includes a second insertion hole that is located coaxially with the press-fitting hole and the first insertion hole and that passes through the valving element supporting member in the axial direction.