Three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve

• US 20050098211A1
• Filed: 05/06/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakao, Kenji, Onishi, Yoshihiko, Uryu, Takuya, Ichinose, Yuta
• Granted Patent: US 7,036,525 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 137/82
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0258 Proportional solenoid valve
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0021 Generation or control of line pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0634 with fixed seats positioned between movable valve members
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0637 with ball shaped valve members
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/2278 Pressure modulating relays or followers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87217 Motor

Abstract

A bleed-type proportional electromagnetic valve having an input port, output port, and ejection port is disclosed. Fluid force and pressing force, proportionate to an output pressure and a current flowing in a solenoid coil respectively, act on a bleed valve for controlling the output pressure, whereby the valve can obtain an output pressure commensurate to the flowing current by displacing the valve to a position that those forces counterbalance, wherein the valve is provided with a stop valve disposed so as to be in sliding contact with a passage between the input and output port, and in contact with or separated from a valve seat. This enable the stop valve to contact with the valve seat so as to close the input port and communicate the output port with the ejection port when controlling the output pressure to be minimum.

Claims

1. A three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve comprising:

a solenoid coil;

a core that is excited by energizing the solenoid coil;

a plunger on which magnetic attractive force is exerted from the core when the core is excited;

a bleed valve element that is in contact with or separated from a valve seat depending on the magnetic attractive force acting on the plunger;

a housing that houses the valve seat and the bleed valve element and has an input port, an output port, and an ejection port for control subject fluid; and

a stop valve element that is disposed in a flow passage between the input port and the output port so as to be in sliding contact with a wall of the flow passage and that is in contact with or separated from the valve seat,

wherein in controlling an output pressure to a minimum value the stop valve element is brought in contact with the valve seat so as to close the input port and to cause the output port and the ejection port to communicate with each other.

2. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, wherein the stop valve element is formed with a stop valve element communication hole that enables the output port to communicate with the input port and the ejection port.

3. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, wherein the stop valve element can contact and be separated from the bleed valve element.

4. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, further comprising a spring disposed between the output port and an end of the stop valve element in its movable direction, for urging the stop valve element toward the valve seat.

5. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, wherein a maximum displacement of the stop valve element is set longer than a maximum displacement of a necessary range of the bleed valve element.

6. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, wherein the input port is disposed perpendicularly to a movable direction of the stop valve element.

7. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, wherein seat portions of the valve seat for the bleed valve element and the stop valve element are formed on confronting surfaces of the valve seat, respectively.

8. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, wherein the stop valve element has, at one end, an opening that always communicates with the output port and has, at the other end, an opening that can communicate with the input port and the ejection port.

9. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 2, wherein the stop valve element has a large-diameter portion that is in sliding contact with the housing and a small-diameter portion that is inserted in a valve seat communication hole and has an end that is in contact with the bleed valve element.

10. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 9, wherein the small-diameter portion of the stop valve element is formed with a bleed valve element communication hole that enables the input port and the ejection port to communicate with the stop valve element communication hole.

11. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, wherein the bleed valve element assumes a mortar-like shape and has a projection that can contact the stop valve element.

12. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 11, wherein the projection is formed with a bleed valve element communication hole that enables the output port to communicate with the input port and the ejection port.

13. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 1, further comprising a guide member that is press-fit in an inner circumferential surface of the housing, wherein the stop valve element is in sliding contact with the guide member.

14. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 13, wherein the valve seat and the guide member are integrated with each other.

15. The three-way bleed type proportional electromagnetic valve according to claim 11, wherein the stop valve element is formed, at an input-port-side end, with an elliptical groove whose width is smaller than an outer diameter of the projection of the bleed valve element.