LINEAR MOTION-TYPE GATE VALVE

• US 20090020719A1
• Filed: 07/18/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SMC Corporation (Alamo Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: SMC Corporation (Alamo Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: ISHIGAKI, Tsuneo
• Granted Patent: US 7,896,313 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 251/326
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 3/0281 Guillotine or blade-type valves, e.g. no passage through the valve member
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 3/314 Forms or constructions of slides; Attachment of the slide to the spindle

Abstract

A gate valve includes a valve plate for opening and closing a gas passageway, and an air cylinder and a shaft for linearly moving the valve plate between a main housing portion and a storage housing portion of a housing, and the air cylinder is arranged on the first lateral surface side of the housing in parallel with a moving direction of the valve plate, and the shaft is arranged so as to overlap with the valve plate in parallel with the moving direction. A tip end of the shaft is coupled with the valve plate at a position situated near a front end portion in the moving direction thereof.

Claims

1. A linear motion-type gate valve comprising:

a housing having a first lateral surface at one side and a second lateral surface at the other side in a direction of a first axial line, composed of a main housing portion where a gas passageway penetrates in the direction of the first axial line, and a storage housing portion being situated next to the main housing portion;

a valve plate being arranged to be free to linearly advance and retreat along a second axial line being perpendicular to the first axial line in a plate chamber inside the housing, and occupying an advancing position inside the main housing portion when the gas passageway is closed, and occupying a retreating position inside the storage housing portion when the gas passageway is opened; and

a driving apparatus for advancing and retreating the valve plate,

wherein the driving apparatus includes a shaft coupled with the valve plate and an actuator that drives the shaft, and the actuator and the shaft are arranged on the first lateral surface side of the housing in relation to the plate chamber, and the shaft is arranged so as to overlap with the valve plate in parallel with the second axial line, wherein a tip end of the shaft is coupled with the valve plate at a coupling portion provided at a position situated near a front end portion in an advancing and retreating direction axis of the valve plate.

2. The gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the shaft is arranged at a center portion of the valve plate in a diameter direction of the valve plate.

3. The gate valve according to claim 1, wherein a coupling attachment overhanging toward the first lateral surface from the valve plate is provided in the coupling portion, and the shaft is coupled with the coupling attachment, and wherein the coupling portion is configured to be positioned inside the main housing portion when the valve plate is positioned inside the storage housing portion.

4. The gate valve according to claim 2, wherein a coupling attachment overhanging toward the first lateral surface from the valve plate is provided in the coupling portion, and the shaft is coupled with the coupling attachment, and wherein the coupling portion is configured to be positioned inside the main housing portion when the valve plate is positioned inside the storage housing portion.

5. The gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the actuator is an air cylinder, and the air cylinder includes a cylinder chamber that is formed in a direction of the second axial line at a position situated next to the plate chamber inside the storage housing portion, and a piston arranged in the cylinder chamber, and wherein the shaft is coupled with the piston.

6. The gate valve according to claim 2, wherein the actuator is an air cylinder, and the air cylinder includes a cylinder chamber that is formed in a direction of the second axial line at a position situated next to the plate chamber inside the storage housing portion, and a piston arranged in the cylinder chamber, and wherein the shaft is coupled with the piston.

7. The gate valve according to claim 3, wherein the actuator is an air cylinder, and the air cylinder includes a cylinder chamber that is formed in a direction of the second axial line at a position situated next to the plate chamber inside the storage housing portion, and a piston arranged in the cylinder chamber, and wherein the shaft is coupled with the piston.

8. The gate valve according to claim 4, wherein the actuator is an air cylinder, and the air cylinder includes a cylinder chamber that is formed in a direction of the second axial line at a position situated next to the plate chamber inside the storage housing portion, and a piston arranged in the cylinder chamber, and wherein the shaft is coupled with the piston.

9. The gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the actuator is composed of an electric motor, a ball screw that is rotated by means of the electric motor, and a ball screw nut that is meshed with the ball screw, and wherein the electric motor is arranged at a position situated near the main housing portion on a first lateral surface of the storage housing portion, and wherein the ball screw extends from the electric motor in parallel with the shaft, and the ball screw nut is coupled with the shaft via a connecting attachment.

10. The gate valve according to claim 2, wherein the actuator is composed of an electric motor, a ball screw that is rotated by means of the electric motor, and a ball screw nut that is meshed with the ball screw, and wherein the electric motor is arranged at a position situated near the main housing portion on a first lateral surface of the storage housing portion, and wherein the ball screw extends from the electric motor in parallel with the shaft, and the ball screw nut is coupled with the shaft via a connecting attachment.

11. The gate valve according to claim 3, wherein the actuator is composed of an electric motor, a ball screw that is rotated by means of the electric motor, and a ball screw nut that is meshed with the ball screw, and wherein the electric motor is arranged at a position situated near the main housing portion on a first lateral surface of the storage housing portion, and wherein the ball screw extends from the electric motor in parallel with the shaft, and the ball screw nut is coupled with the shaft via a connecting attachment.

12. The gate valve according to claim 4, wherein the actuator is composed of an electric motor, a ball screw that is rotated by means of the electric motor, and a ball screw nut that is meshed with the ball screw, and wherein the electric motor is arranged at a position situated near the main housing portion on a first lateral surface of the storage housing portion, and wherein the ball screw extends from the electric motor in parallel with the shaft, and the ball screw nut is coupled with the shaft via a connecting attachment.

13. The gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the storage housing portion is separable from the main housing portion while continuing to house the valve plate and have the driving apparatus mounted therein.

14. The gate valve according to claim 2, wherein the storage housing portion is separable from the main housing portion while continuing to house the valve plate and have the driving apparatus mounted therein.

15. The gate valve according to claim 3, wherein the storage housing portion is separable from the main housing portion while continuing to house the valve plate and have the driving apparatus mounted therein.

16. The gate valve according to claim 4, wherein the storage housing portion is separable from the main housing portion while continuing to house the valve plate and have the driving apparatus mounted therein.