Electric valve and assembly method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11965610-B2
Application number	US-202117915160-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2021
Priority date	Mar 30, 2020
Publication date	Apr 23, 2024
Grant date	Apr 23, 2024

Abstract

An electric valve and an assembly method therefor. The provision of multilayered sealing of a first sealing element, a second sealing element, and a sealing medium located between the first sealing element and the second sealing element along the axial direction of a valve stem is conducive to restricting outward leakage of a fluid along the axial direction of the valve stem.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An assembly method for an electric valve, wherein the electric valve comprises a dynamic sealing member and a valve stem, the dynamic sealing member comprises a first end cover, a second end cover, a connecting seat, a first sealing member and a second sealing member, and the assembly method for the electric valve comprises the following steps:
arranging the first sealing member in a first chamber of the connecting seat, arranging the second sealing member in a second chamber of the connecting seat, and press-fitting and fixing the first end cover and the second end cover respectively to the connecting seat assembled with the first sealing member and the second sealing member with interference; and
assembling the valve stem with the dynamic sealing member in a sealing medium, and pushing the valve stem to pass through the dynamic sealing member, so that a first stem portion of the valve stem is higher than the first end cover, the first sealing member is pressed between a second stem portion of the valve stem and the connecting seat, and the second sealing member is pressed between the second stem portion of the valve stem and the connecting seat.

2. The assembly method according to claim 1 , wherein the dynamic sealing member further comprises a third sealing member, a fourth sealing member and a plunger, and the assembly method further comprises the following steps:
sleeving the third sealing member and the fourth sealing member on an outer circumference of the plunger respectively, filling the sealing medium in an accommodating chamber of the valve stem, and arranging the plunger assembled with the third sealing member and the fourth sealing member in the accommodating chamber.

3. The assembly method according to claim 2 , wherein the electric valve further comprises a driving member, a valve body assembly, a valve core and a limiting frame, the valve body assembly comprises a valve body, a valve core seat and a sealing cover, and the assembly method further comprises the following steps:
connecting the dynamic sealing member assembled with the valve stem to the valve body, so that part of the valve stem is located in the valve body; mounting the valve core seat and the valve core in the valve body, so that the valve core is transmissively connected with the valve stem, and the valve core seat is located on two sides of the valve core; and connecting the sealing cover to the valve body; and
interference-fitting the limiting frame with the first stem portion of the valve stem, transmissively connecting the driving member to the limiting frame, and connecting the driving member to the valve body.

4. The assembly method according to claim 3 , wherein the first end cover comprises a limiting hole and a positioning hole, the electric valve comprises a limiting column, the driving member comprises a positioning column, and the assembly method further comprises the following steps:
press-fitting the limiting column into the limiting hole with interference, so that the limiting column is higher than the limiting hole; and positioning the positioning column with the positioning hole, so that the driving member is positioned with the dynamic sealing member.

5. An electric valve, comprising a valve stem, a first sealing groove, a second sealing groove, a first sealing member and a second sealing member, wherein part of the first sealing member is located in a first groove chamber formed by the first sealing groove, the first sealing member is pressed between the valve stem and the first sealing groove, part of the second sealing member is located in a second groove chamber formed by the second sealing groove, and the second sealing member is pressed between the valve stem and the second sealing groove, wherein the electric valve further comprises a plunger, the valve stem comprises an accommodating chamber and a first through hole, the first through hole extends through the valve stem, the first through hole is in communication with the accommodating chamber, at least part of the plunger is located in the accommodating chamber, the plunger is sealed to the valve stem, the first through hole is located between the first sealing member and the second sealing member, a sealing chamber is formed by the plunger, the valve stem, the first sealing groove, the second sealing groove, the first sealing member and the second sealing member, a sealing medium is filled in the sealing chamber, and part of the sealing medium is located between the first sealing member and the second sealing member.

6. The electric valve according to claim 5 , wherein the valve stem comprises a first stem portion, a second stem portion and a connecting portion, the second stem portion is located between the first stem portion and the connecting portion, the first stem portion is transmissively connected with a driving member of the electric valve, and the connecting portion is transmissively connected with a valve core of the electric valve; and
the first sealing groove is located on an outer circumference of the second stem portion, the second sealing groove is located on the outer circumference of the second stem portion, the first sealing member is pressed between the first sealing groove and the second stem portion, and the second sealing member is pressed between the second sealing groove and the second stem portion.

7. The electric valve according to the claim 6 , wherein the first through hole is located in the second stem portion, a radial dimension of the second stem portion at the first through hole is less than a radial dimension of the second stem portion at other portions.

8. The electric valve according to the claim 7 , wherein the first sealing member and the second sealing member are in an X shape or a substantial X shape, a first contact portion and a second contact portion of the first sealing member respectively abut against the second stem portion, a third contact portion and a fourth contact portion of the first sealing member respectively abut against the first sealing groove; a first contact portion and a second contact portion of the second sealing member respectively abut against the second stem portion, and a third contact portion and a fourth contact portion of the second sealing member respectively abut against the second sealing groove; and
materials of the first sealing member and the second sealing member are the same or different.

9. The electric valve according to the claim 8 , wherein the valve core comprises a hole passage and a second through hole, the second through hole is in communication with the hole passage, part of working fluid flowing through the hole passage is in contact with a lower end surface of the plunger through the second through hole.

10. The electric valve according to the claim 9 , wherein the electric valve further comprises a transmission member and a limiting frame, at least part of the transmission member is located in the driving member, the driving member is transmissively connected with the transmission member, the limiting frame is fixedly connected to the first stem portion, the limiting frame is transmissively connected with the transmission member, the electric valve further comprises a limiting column, the limiting frame comprises a stop portion, and the stop portion abuts against the limiting column to limit a rotation angle of the valve stem during rotation of the limiting frame.

11. The electric valve according to the claim 5 , wherein the plunger comprises a third sealing groove and a fourth sealing groove, the electric valve further comprises a third sealing member and a fourth sealing member, part of the third sealing member is located in a third groov

Assignees

• Zhejiang Sanhua Automotive Components Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Xingkui
• Zhang Wei
• Lan Yunzhi
• Zhu Zhenshan

Classifications

• F16K5/0694 Primary

  Spindle sealings · CPC title

• F16K5/0647

  Spindles or actuating means · CPC title

• F16K5/08

  Details · CPC title

• F16K27/067 Primary

  with spherical plugs · CPC title

• F16K41/046

  for rotating valves · CPC title