Fluid valve arrangement comprising a bistable fluid valve

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9488196-B2
Application number	US-201214345182-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 13, 2012
Priority date	Sep 15, 2011
Publication date	Nov 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016

Abstract

The invention relates to a fluid valve arrangement having a bistable fluid valve for at least one fluid line with a valve body which can be moved into two positions for two switching states, a pressure pulse generator being provided for valve switchover in the feed line for switching over a feed line and a return line between two flow lines, and the fluid valve comprising a reversing unit which has two chambers which are separated from one another by a bistable surface element, the two chambers being connected to the two flow lines and the bistable surface element being operatively coupled to the valve body in order to actuate it. As a result, a bistable fluid valve is provided which can be reversed by way of pressure pulses or pressure flanks and otherwise has no energy requirement.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. Fluid valve arrangement having a bistable fluid valve for a fluid feed line and a fluid return line with a valve body which can be moved into two positions for two switching states, characterized in that a pressure pulse generator is provided for valve switchover in the feed line for switching over the fluid feed line and the fluid return line between two flow lines, and the fluid valve comprises a reversing unit which has two chambers which are separated from one another by a bistable surface element, the two chambers being connected to the two flow lines and the bistable surface element being operatively coupled to the valve body in order to actuate it.

2. Fluid valve arrangement according to claim 1 , characterized in that the pressure pulse generator is formed by a reciprocating piston pump which is connected to the fluid valve arrangement.

3. Fluid valve arrangement according to claim 1 , characterized in that the bistable surface element is configured in the form of a spherical cap.

4. Fluid valve arrangement having a bistable fluid valve for at least one fluid line with a valve body which can be moved into two positions for two switching states, characterized in that the fluid valve comprises a reversing unit which has two chambers which are separated from one another by a bistable surface element], one of the chambers communicating directly with the fluid line, whereas the other chamber is connected via a pressure changing member to the fluid line and the bistable surface element is operatively coupled to the valve body in order to actuate it.

5. Fluid valve arrangement according to claim 4 , characterized in that the pressure changing member is a throttle point.

6. Fluid valve arrangement according to claim 4 , characterized in that it is coupled to a fluid pump which operates in a pulsed manner, and one chamber is connected directly to the fluid line and the other chamber is connected via a resonance tube to the fluid line, the resonance tube being tuned to the frequency of the fluid pump.

Assignees

• Storm Stefan
• Rammer Raphael
• Eads Deutschland Gmbh

Inventors

• Storm Stefan
• Rammer Raphael

Classifications

• Y10T137/7784

  Responsive to change in rate of fluid flow · CPC title

• Y10T137/86485

  Line condition change responsive release of valve · CPC title

• F15B2013/0428

  with switchable internal or external pilot pressure source · CPC title

• F15B13/042 Primary

  operated by fluid pressure {(F15B13/0401, F15B13/0416 take precedence)} · CPC title

• F15B2211/329

  actuated by fluid pressure · CPC title