Air intake device and air intake control valve

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10352252-B2
Application number	US-201615254637-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 1, 2016
Priority date	Sep 3, 2015
Publication date	Jul 16, 2019
Grant date	Jul 16, 2019

Abstract

An air intake device includes: a valve body which includes a rotating shaft; a bearing member which rotatably supports the rotating shaft of the valve body; and an air intake port which includes a concave portion on which the bearing member is disposed, wherein the bearing member includes a positioning portion for positioning the bearing member with respect to the concave portion of the air intake port, facing surfaces which extend from the positioning portion along the concave portion of the air intake port and face each other in an inward radial direction of the rotating shaft with respect to the concave portion, with a gap therebetween, and protruding portions which protrude toward the concave portion of the air intake port from the facing surfaces and seal the gap.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An air intake device comprising: a valve body which includes a rotating shaft; a bearing member which rotatably supports the rotating shaft of the valve body; and an air intake port which includes a concave portion on which the bearing member is disposed, wherein the bearing member includes a positioning portion for positioning the bearing member with respect to the concave portion of the air intake port, a plurality of facing surfaces which extend from the positioning portion along the concave portion of the air intake port, said facing surfaces facing the concave portion of the air intake port, and a plurality of protruding portions which protrude toward the concave portion of the air intake port from the facing surfaces and seal a gap, said gap existing between the facing surfaces and the concave portion except at the protruding portions, and wherein the protruding portions of the bearing member, in a view along a direction in which the rotating shaft of the valve body extends, are provided at a position overlapping the valve body at the time of closing the valve body.

2. The air intake device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the protruding portions of the bearing member are provided on each of one side and the other side in an outward radial direction of the rotating shaft about the rotating shaft.

3. The air intake device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the protruding portion of the bearing member has a protruding amount which is equal to or more than gap interval between an inside surface of the concave portion of the air intake port and facing surfaces of the bearing member other than the protruding portion.

4. The air intake device according to claim 1 ,
wherein a plurality of the air intake ports are disposed to be adjacent to each other with a partition wall interposed therebetween, and
wherein the protruding portions of the bearing member are provided on one side and the other side in the partition wall as a boundary in a direction in which the rotating shaft extends.

5. The air intake device according claim 1 ,
wherein the protruding portion of the bearing members extends along a direction in which the rotating shaft of the valve body extends.

6. The air intake device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the protruding portion of the bearing member has a taper shape in which a width is gradually narrowed toward a tip end thereof.

7. The air intake device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of air intake ports are disposed to be adjacent to each other with the partition wall interposed therebetween,
wherein the bearing member includes an end portion bearing member by which the rotating shaft of the valve body which opens and closes the air intake port corresponding to an end portion among the plurality of air intake ports is rotatably supported from the end portion side, and
wherein the end portion bearing member further includes a seal portion which seals the gap between the concave portion of the air intake port and a rear surface opposite to the valve body of the end portion bearing member in addition to the protruding portion.

8. The air intake device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the protruding portion has a protruding amount which is equal to or more than gap interval between an inside surface of the concave portion of the air intake port and the facing surfaces of the bearing member other than the protruding portion,
wherein the air intake port and the bearing member are made from resin, and
wherein the protruding portion of the bearing member has the protruding amount which is equal to or more than sum of a predetermined tolerance of the air intake port and the bearing member and the gap interval between the inside surface of the concave portion of the air intake port and the facing surfaces of the bearing member other than the protruding portion.

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki

Inventors

• Ninomiya Kyohei
• OIWA Toshiyuki
• Ishii Masato
• Hasegawa Motonobu

Classifications

• F02D9/16 Primary

  the members being rotatable · CPC title

• F02M35/10065

  Valves arranged in the plenum chamber · CPC title

• F16K27/003

  Housing formed from a plurality of the same valve elements · CPC title

• F16K1/224

  Details of bearings for the axis of rotation · CPC title

• F02B27/0263

  the plenum chamber and at least one of the intake ducts having a common wall, and the intake ducts wrap partially around the plenum chamber, i.e. snail-type (F02B27/0257 takes precedence) · CPC title