Valve for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9347567-B2
Application number	US-201113315031-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2011
Priority date	May 13, 2011
Publication date	May 24, 2016
Grant date	May 24, 2016

Abstract

A valve apparatus for the vehicle that may be disposed in a vehicle to exhaust operating fluid, which flows therein, to the outside, may include a main body that has at least one exhaust port and input port and the operating fluid flows there in through the input port, and an opening/closing unit that may be disposed in the main body, wherein the opening/closing unit selectively fluid-connects one of the at least a exhaust port with the input port according to a temperature of the operating fluid such that the inflow operating fluid may be exhausted to the outside through the exhaust port.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A valve apparatus disposed in a vehicle to exhaust operating fluid, which flows therein, to outside the vehicle, comprising:
a main body having at least one exhaust port and an input port, the operating fluid flowing therein through the input port; and
an opening/closing unit disposed in the main body, wherein the opening/closing unit includes:
a transformation member selectively fluidically connecting one of the at least one exhaust port with the input port according to a temperature of the operating fluid such that the operating fluid is exhausted to the outside through the at least one exhaust port; and
a mounting cap mounted to an end portion in the main body,
wherein the transformation member has a first end thereof connected to the mounting cap inserted into the main body and the transformation member is expanded or contracted according to the temperature of the operating fluid, and
wherein the transformation member includes:
fixed portions formed in both end portions of a length direction in the transformation member to not be transformed by the temperature, wherein a first fixed portion of the fixed portions is connected to the mounting cap and a second fixed portion of the fixed portions is disposed between the input port and the at least one exhaust port; and
a transformation portion integrally formed between the first and second fixed portions,
wherein the transformation portion and the second fixed portion selectively and directly close either the at least one exhaust port or the input port such that the operation fluid does not flow into a fluid passage between the at least one exhaust port and the input port while the transformation portion expands or contracts according to the temperature of the operation fluid.

2. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the transformation member is a shape memory alloy material expanding or contracting according to the temperature of the operating fluid.

3. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the transformation member has a structure in which a circular coil spring overlaps itself such that coils thereof contact each other according to the temperature.

4. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the mounting cap includes:
an insert portion of which a first end thereof is inserted into the transformation member and attached thereto; and
a mounting portion of which a first end thereof is integrally connected to a second end of the insert portion and is detachably mounted on an interior circumference of the main body.

5. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 4 , wherein the mounting portion has external threads formed on an exterior circumference thereof to be engaged on an interior circumference of the main body.

6. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 4 , wherein the mounting portion has a catching portion that is integrally formed on a second end of the mounting portion to be fixed on an outside end portion of the main body.

7. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 6 , wherein the catching portion includes a tool recess formed on an end thereof.

8. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 4 , wherein a catching portion integrally formed on the mounting portion includes a tool recess formed on an end of the catching portion.

9. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 1 , wherein a first end of the main body is closed and a second end thereof is opened to have a cylindrical pipe shape, and the opening/closing unit is mounted on the opened end thereof.

10. The valve apparatus for the vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the valve apparatus operates in a 2-way valve type in which one exhaust port is formed in an opposite side of the input port in the main body and the opening/closing unit is disposed close to the at least one exhaust port.

Assignees

• Kim Jae Yeon
• Cho Wan Je
• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Jae Yeon
• Cho Wan Je

Classifications

• F01P2070/02

  using shape memory alloys · CPC title

• G05D23/025

  the sensing element being placed within a regulating fluid flow · CPC title

• F16K31/002 Primary

  actuated by temperature variation (thermo-electric F16K31/025) · CPC title

• F16K11/022

  comprising a deformable member · CPC title

• F28F9/02

  Header boxes; End plates · CPC title