Valve device having passage defining member holding restrictor body without connection portion

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9696732-B2
Application number	US-201615157659-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 18, 2016
Priority date	Jun 18, 2015
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A valve device includes a valve seat forming member, a case, a first O-ring, and a second O-ring. The valve seat forming member is fit into a passage defining and forms a valve seat. The case houses an electromagnetic solenoid and is connected to the passage defining member. The first O-ring is interposed between an inner circumferential surface of the passage defining member and an outer circumferential surface of the valve seat forming member. The first O-ring prohibits the fluid from flowing through a space between the passage defining member and the valve seat forming member when the main valve body seats on the valve seat. The second O-ring is interposed between the case and the passage defining member. The second O-ring prohibits the fluid from flowing from the passage to an outside of the passage defining member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A valve device comprising:
a passage defining member that defines therein a passage through which fluid flows;
a main valve body that is housed inside the passage, the main valve body being operated by an electromagnetic solenoid to selectively open and close the passage; and
a restrictor body that is disposed downstream of the main valve body inside the passage, the restrictor body being operated by a pressure difference, which is generated when the passage is opened, between a pressure at an upstream side of the restrictor body and a pressure at a downstream side of the restrictor body, the restrictor body decreasing an opening degree of the passage as the pressure difference increases, wherein
a valve seat is annually formed in the passage defining member, the main valve body seating on the valve seat,
the valve seat has an inner circumferential surface forming a portion of the passage, and
the passage is closed when the main valve body seats on the valve seat, wherein
the valve device further comprises:
a valve seat forming member that is fit into the passage defining member to be positioned downstream of the main valve body, the valve seat being formed in the valve seat forming member;
a case that houses the electromagnetic solenoid and is connected to the passage defining member at a position upstream of the main valve body;
an inner sealing member that is interposed between an inner circumferential surface of the passage defining member and an outer circumferential surface of the valve seat forming member, the inner sealing member prohibiting the fluid from flowing through a space between the inner circumferential surface of the passage defining member and the outer circumferential surface of the valve seat forming member from an upstream side of the main valve body to a downstream side of the main valve body when the main valve body seats on the valve seat; and
an outer circumferential sealing member that is interposed between the case and the passage defining member, the outer circumferential sealing member prohibiting the fluid from flowing from the passage to an outside of the passage defining member.

2. The valve device according to claim 1 , wherein
the valve device is disposed in a vapored fuel passage that fluidly connects between a fuel tank installed in a vehicle and a canister holding vapored fuel.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Harada Hiroyuki
• Miura Yuichiro
• Onodera Hirofumi
• Uchida Kimio

Classifications

• G05D16/2086

  without direct action of electric energy on the controlling means (combination of electric and non-electric auxiliary G05D16/2093) · CPC title

• G05D16/103

  the sensing element placed between the inlet and outlet (multiple-way valve G05D16/101) · CPC title

• F02M25/0836

  Arrangement of valves controlling the admission of fuel vapour to an engine, e.g. valve being disposed between fuel tank or absorption canister and intake manifold · CPC title

• G05D16/028

  Controlling a pressure difference (control of flow G05D7/00) · CPC title

• F16K31/0644

  One-way valve · CPC title