Mixing valve

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12498048-B2
Application number	US-202418757702-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2024
Priority date	Jul 7, 2023
Publication date	Dec 16, 2025
Grant date	Dec 16, 2025

Abstract

A mixing valve includes: a housing with a valve chamber formed therein; and a rotor rotatably inserted into the valve chamber, a first peripheral wall of the housing is provided with a first inlet port at a first opening to the valve chamber and a second inlet port at a second opening to the valve chamber, a second peripheral wall of the rotor is provided with a first inflow pipe, a second inflow pipe, and a mixing pipe with a mixing flow path formed therein, the mixing pipe opens in a radial direction of the rotor and communicates with the first inflow pipe and the second inflow pipe to allow a mixed fluid MF to flow into the mixing pipe, and the first peripheral wall of the housing is provided with a discharge port a discharge fluid DF that has flowed into the valve chamber without passing through the first inflow pipe and/or the second inflow pipe of the rotor, respectively, and an outlet port communicating with the mixing flow path.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A mixing valve comprising:
a cylindrical housing with a valve chamber formed therein; and a rotor rotatably inserted into the valve chamber, wherein the housing includes, in a first peripheral wall of the housing, a first inlet port having a first opening at the valve chamber and a second inlet port having a second opening at the valve chamber, a first fluid configured to flow into the first inlet port, a second fluid configured to flow into the second inlet port, the rotor includes, in a second peripheral wall of the rotor, a first inflow pipe communicating with the first opening, a second inflow pipe communicating with the second opening, and a mixing pipe forming a mixing flow path through which the first fluid and/or the second fluid flow as a mixed fluid, the mixing pipe opens in a radial direction of the rotor and communicates with the first inflow pipe and the second inflow pipe to allow the mixed fluid to flow into the mixing pipe, and the first peripheral wall of the housing is provided with a discharge port configured to discharge the first fluid and/or the second fluid that has flowed into the valve chamber without passing through the first inflow pipe and/or the second inflow pipe of the rotor, respectively, as a discharge fluid to the outside of the housing, and an outlet port communicating with the mixing pipe.

2 . The mixing valve according to claim 1 ,
wherein the outlet port has a third opening at the valve chamber, the mixing pipe includes a connecting portion connected to the second peripheral wall and an opening end coming into slide contact with an inner circumferential surface of the housing with rotation of the rotor, and an opening area of the mixing pipe at the opening end is a size that allows communication with an entire region of the third opening in an entire rotation range of the rotor.

3 . The mixing valve according to claim 2 , wherein a third peripheral wall of the mixing pipe has an enlarged pipe shape with a diameter increasing from the connecting portion toward the opening end.

4 . The mixing valve according to claim 2 , wherein the first inlet port, the second inlet port, the outlet port, and the discharge port are provided to project in a radial direction of the housing from the first peripheral wall on a same radial-direction plane of the housing.

5 . The mixing valve according to claim 4 ,
wherein when an intersection angle between a first line connecting a rotation center of the rotor to a center of the first opening in the radial direction and a second line connecting the rotation center to a center of the second opening in the radial direction is defined as a fluid inflow angle on the same radial-direction plane, and an intersection angle between a third line connecting the rotation center to a center of an opening of the first inflow pipe in the radial direction and a fourth line connecting the rotation center to a center of an opening of the second inflow pipe in the radial direction is defined as a fluid mixing angle on the same radial-direction plane, the fluid mixing angle is smaller than the fluid inflow angle.

Assignees

• Mikuni Kogyo Kk

Inventors

• Kato Hiroshi
• Kashiwagura Hideaki

Classifications

• B01F35/80

  Forming a predetermined ratio of the substances to be mixed (controlling ratio of two or more flows of fluid or fluent material G05D11/02) · CPC title

• B01F23/45

  using flow mixing · CPC title

• F16K11/0853 Primary

  having all the connecting conduits situated in a single plane perpendicular to the axis of the plug · CPC title

• B01F25/1051 Primary

  of the mixing valve type · CPC title