Double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve

• US 10,663,982 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2018
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xuzhou Jingan Heavy Industry Manufacture Company Limited
• Original Assignee: China University of Mining and Technology
• Inventors: Liu, Xiumei, Li, Ruirui, Li, Beibei, He, Jie
• Primary Examiner(s): Sanchez-Medina, Reinaldo
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gardner, Nicole
• Application Number:
  US16/302,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20200133311A1
• Time in Patent Office: 861 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/32 Details details of more general applicability F16K25/00 - F16K51/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/54 Arrangements for modifying the way in which the rate of flow varies during the actuation of the valve
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/12 actuated by fluid fluid-actuated lift valves F16K1/126 ; fluid-actuated check valves F16K15/00; fluid-actuated safety valves F16K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/56 without stable intermediate position, e.g. with snap action
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 7/0173 using pivoting sensing element acting as a valve mounted within the flow-path

Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention is a double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve, including an upper valve body, a lower valve body, a double-spring pressure adjustment valve, a spring energy storage linkage mechanism, and a main valve. The double-spring pressure adjustment valve includes a rough adjustment stud, a rough adjustment spring, a fine adjustment stud, a fine adjustment spring, a spring guide sleeve, and a pressure adjustment valve spool. The spring energy storage linkage mechanism includes a guide block, a valve spool control linkage, a tension spring, and a tension spring shift lever and a tension spring sliding hook. The valve spool control linkage is connected to the guide block at one end, and connected to a main valve spool drive rod via a pin at the other end. The tension spring sliding hook is mounted on the guide block, and one end of the shift lever is placed below the tension spring sliding hook so as to drive the tension spring sliding hook to move upwards, thereby controlling the state of the tension spring and enabling energy storage of the spring. The spring energy storage linkage mechanism make the valve spool to open and close momentarily at the right portion. The double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve according to the present invention has a low cost, and can provide precise control of opening and closing pressures for the pressure control valve and control of both states of opening and closing for the main valve.

Claims

1. A double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve, comprising a lower valve body, an upper valve body, a double-spring pressure adjustment valve, a main valve, and a spring energy storage linkage mechanism;

the lower valve body is provided with an oil inlet chamber and an oil inlet, and the oil inlet chamber is communicated with an external oil source via the oil inlet;

a pressure control valve chamber that extends vertically and an oil drain hole are provided on the left side of the upper valve body, and an internal thread is provided at an upper portion of the pressure control valve chamber;

a main valve chamber with three step-surfaces that extends vertically and an oil outlet are provided on the right side of the upper valve body, the three step-surfaces gradually decrease in diameter from top to bottom, and an internal thread is provided in an upper step-surface region;

the lower valve body is fixed to the upper valve body, and the oil inlet chamber is communicated with the pressure control valve chamber and the main valve chamber, respectively;

the double-spring pressure adjustment valve comprises a rough adjustment stud, a rough adjustment spring, a fine adjustment stud, a fine adjustment spring, a spring guide sleeve, and a pressure adjustment valve spool, wherein the rough adjustment stud is provided with a threaded through-hole that extends vertically, and a rough adjustment spring mounting boss is provided at the bottom of the rough adjustment stud;

a fine adjustment spring mounting boss is provided at the bottom of the fine adjustment stud, and a spring guide pillar is provided on an upper surface of the pressure adjustment valve spool;

the fine adjustment stud is mounted within the rough adjustment stud via a threaded structure, and the rough adjustment stud is mounted at an upper portion of the pressure control valve chamber via a threaded structure, the pressure adjustment valve spool is provided at a lower portion of the pressure control valve chamber, upper and lower ends of the rough adjustment spring are sleeved on the rough adjustment spring mounting boss and the spring guide pillar, respectively, upper and lower ends of the fine adjustment spring are sleeved on the fine adjustment spring mounting boss and the spring guide pillar, respectively, and lower ends of the fine adjustment spring and the rough adjustment spring are separated by the spring guide sleeve;

the main valve comprises a main valve cover, a main valve spool, and a main valve spool drive rod, wherein the main valve cover is provided with a main valve spool guide hole, and the main valve spool is a cylindrical structure with its lower end tapering into a cone, and the diameter of a large end face of the cone is larger than the inner diameter of a lower step-surface of the main valve chamber;

the main valve cover is mounted in the upper step-surface region of the main valve chamber via a threaded structure, an upper portion of the main valve spool is extended into the main valve spool guide hole, a lower portion of the main valve spool is extended into the lower step-surface region of the main valve chamber, and an upper end of the main valve spool drive rod is fixed to the cone at its tip;

the spring energy storage linkage mechanism comprises a guide block, a valve spool control linkage, a tension spring, and a tension spring shift lever and a tension spring sliding hook, wherein a left side face of the guide block is an arc guide rail with its middle portion protruding to the left, the tension spring sliding hook is mounted on the arc guide rail, and an upper end of the tension spring shift lever is fixed to a lower surface of the pressure adjustment valve spool;

a left end of the valve spool control linkage is connected to the middle portion of the guide block via a clevis pin, an elongated hole is provided on a right end of the valve spool control linkage, a lower end of the main valve spool drive rod is connected to the elongated hole on the right end of the valve spool control linkage via a clevis pin, and both ends of the tension spring are engaged with a right portion of the valve spool control linkage and the tension spring sliding hook, respectively;

when the pressure adjustment valve spool drives the tension spring shift lever to move up/down, a lower/upper claw of the tension spring shift lever drives the tension spring sliding hook to move up/down along the arc guide rail;

when the tension spring sliding hook moves to an upper-most position on the arc guide rail, the right end of the valve spool control linkage moves upwards to its upper-most position;

when the tension spring sliding hook moves to a lower-most position on the arc guide rail, the right end of the valve spool control linkage moves downwards to its lower-most position; and

when the tension spring sliding hook moves to the upper-most position on the arc guide rail, up and down movement of the right end of the valve spool control linkage drives the main valve spool drive rod and the main valve spool to move vertically.

2. The double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve according to claim 1, wherein the spring guide pillar on the upper surface of the pressure adjustment valve spool has a same diameter as that of the fine adjustment spring mounting boss at the bottom of the fine adjustment stud, and the height of the spring guide sleeve is smaller than or equal to the height of the rough adjustment spring when being completely compressed.

3. The double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve according to claim 1, wherein the height of the guide block is same as the depth of the oil inlet chamber, and an upper surface and a lower surface of the guide block conform to a lower surface of the upper valve body and a lower bottom surface of the oil inlet chamber, respectively;

a mounting boss is provided at an upper portion of the guide block, and a guide block mounting groove is provided on the lower surface of the upper valve body, and the mounting boss is inserted into the guide block mounting groove.

4. The double-spring and high-precision hysteretic pressure control valve according to claim 1, wherein the lower valve body and the upper valve body are fixedly connected via a bolt.