Fluid control valve

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9746102-B2
Application number	US-201414226167-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2014
Priority date	Mar 27, 2013
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

In order to make it possible to increase a diameter and output thereof, a diaphragm structure is provided that has low repulsiveness, can be largely deformed to increase a stroke even without being applied with a large force from an actuator, and is unlikely to give rise to a defect or fault even when formed thin, and a fluid control valve is provided with the diaphragm structure and the actuator that presses the diaphragm structure, wherein the diaphragm structure is provided with: a protruding part that is formed in a tubular shape and pressed by the actuator; a brim part that spreads from a base end of the protruding part outward with respect to the protruding part; and a support part that is formed on an outer circumference of the brim part and attached to another member, and the brim part is formed in a film shape.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fluid control valve comprising a diaphragm structure, and an actuator that presses the diaphragm structure, wherein the diaphragm structure comprises:
a protruding part that is formed in a tubular shape with a closed fore end and pressed by the actuator at least in an axial direction thereof;
a brim part that spreads from a base end of the protruding part outward with respect to the protruding part;
a support part that is formed on an outer circumference of the brim part and attached to another member;
a valve seat member that is formed with a valve seat surface; and
a valve element member that has a seating surface that is brought into contact with or separated from the valve seat surface, wherein
the fore end of the protruding part is configured to press the valve element member,
the brim part is formed as a film in a flat or slanted annular disk shape,
the base end of the protruding part is formed as a curved shape, and
the diaphragm structure has a uniform thickness.

2. The fluid control valve according to claim 1 , wherein
at least the brim part and the protruding part are formed of a thin metal plate by drawing.

3. The fluid control valve according to claim 1 , further comprising
an inner fitting member that is fitted to an inner circumferential surface of the protruding part without backlash and pressed by the actuator.

4. The fluid control valve according to claim 1 , further comprising
a spherical body that is contained inside the protruding part, wherein
the actuator is configured to press the protruding part in the axial direction of the protruding part through the spherical body.

5. The fluid control valve according to claim 4 , wherein
an inner fitting member that is fitted to an inner circumferential surface of the protruding part without backlash and pressed by the actuator is configured to retain the spherical body in the protruding part and be pressed by the actuator through the spherical body.

6. The fluid control valve according to claim 1 , wherein:
the diaphragm structure further comprises a flange part that has higher rigidity than the support part and is welded with the support part; and
upon assembling, the flange part is assembled so as to press a protruded rim provided with a pressed surface formed on the valve seat member.

7. The fluid control valve according to claim 1 , wherein:
a radial width dimension of the brim part is larger than a diameter of the protruding part.

Assignees

• Horiba Stec Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yasuda Tadahiro
• Hayashi Shigeyuki
• Kannan Nobuyuki

Classifications

• F16K31/007 Primary

  Piezoelectric stacks · CPC title

• F16K41/10 Primary

  with diaphragm, e.g. shaped as bellows or tube · CPC title

• Y10T137/7895

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F16K15/144

  the closure elements being fixed along all or a part of their periphery · CPC title

• F16K7/12

  with flat, dished, or bowl-shaped diaphragm · CPC title