Valve device and poppet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9822884-B2
Application number	US-201615138686-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2016
Priority date	Apr 27, 2015
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

A valve device includes: a poppet that is formed in a hollow shaft shape except for a leading end, has a tapered closure part at the leading end and a side hole passing through a wall of the hollow shaft-shaped part, and rotates around a shaft center thereof during opening and closing actions; and a valve seat having a sloped seat surface with which the closure part of the poppet comes into contact when closing the valve device. The closure part of the poppet or the seat surface of the valve seat, whichever has a higher hardness, has a cut mark of the opposite direction from a direction of rotation of the poppet around the shaft center that occurs during the valve closing action.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A valve device comprising:
a poppet that is formed in a hollow shaft shape except for a leading end, has a tapered closure part at the leading end and a side hole passing through a wall of the hollow shaft-shaped part, the poppet is configured to rotate in a first direction around a shaft center thereof during opening and closing actions; and
a valve seat having a sloped seat surface with which the closure part of the poppet comes into contact when closing the valve device,
wherein the closure part of the poppet or the seat surface of the valve seat, whichever has a higher hardness, has a spiral cut mark formed in a surface thereof in a second direction which is an opposite direction from the first direction of rotation of the poppet around the shaft center that occurs during the valve closing action.

2. The valve device according to claim 1 , wherein the side hole is either a right side hole perpendicular to the shaft center or an oblique hole oblique to the shaft center.

3. The valve device according to claim 2 , wherein the oblique hole is composed of a first hole perpendicular to the shaft center, and a second oblique hole that intersects with the first hole and inclines toward the closure part while extending toward an outer periphery of the poppet.

4. The valve device according to claim 1 , wherein the poppet has two side holes, and is configured such that a force couple is exerted by a fluid flowing through the two side holes.

5. A poppet that is formed in a hollow shaft shape except for a leading end, has a sloped surface at the leading end and a side hole passing through a wall of the hollow shaft-shaped part, and rotates in a first direction around a shaft center thereof when there is a fluid flowing through the side hole, the poppet comprising, in the sloped surface, a spiral cut mark formed in a second direction which is an opposite direction from the first direction of rotation of the poppet around the shaft center that occurs when the poppet moves in a direction toward the leading end.

6. The poppet according to claim 5 , wherein the side hole is either a right side hole perpendicular to the shaft center or an oblique hole oblique to the shaft center.

7. The poppet according to claim 6 , wherein the oblique hole is composed of a first hole perpendicular to the shaft center, and a second oblique hole that intersects with the first hole and inclines toward the leading end while extending toward an outer periphery of the poppet.

8. The poppet according to claim 5 , wherein the poppet has the two side holes formed therein, and is configured such that a force couple is exerted by a fluid flowing through the two side holes.

Assignees

• Jtekt Corp
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Miyake Junya
• Nishi Koji
• Sugiyama Kazuhisa
• Mio Takumi
• Kubota Sachiko
• Okawachi Eiji
• Yamashita Akira
• Takeshita Naohiro

Classifications

• F16K25/00

  Details relating to contact between valve members and seats (movement of valve members other than for opening and closing F16K29/00) · CPC title

• F16K1/385 Primary

  contacting in the closed position, over a substantial axial length, a seat surface having the same inclination · CPC title

• F16K29/00

  Arrangements for movement of valve members other than for opening and closing the valve, e.g. for grinding-in, for preventing sticking · CPC title

• F17C2223/0123

  gaseous, e.g. CNG, GNC · CPC title

• F17C2221/012

  Hydrogen · CPC title