Temperature controlling valve

• US 20110203689A1
• Filed: 02/24/2010
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Globe Union Industrial Corporation
• Original Assignee: Globe Union Industrial Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Chunghsiang
• Application Number:
  US12/712,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20110203689A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 137/602
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 11/0716 with fluid passages through the valve member F16K11/0704, F16K11/0708, F16K11/0712 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 19/006 Specially adapted for faucets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87571 Multiple inlet with single outlet

Abstract

A temperature controlling valve includes a base; a housing installed to the base; a valve core limited to rotate in the housing and actuated to move upward and downward axially so that between communicating and overlapping portions of a second bore and a first bore is defined a cross sectional area to flow hot water, between communicating and overlapping portions of a second orifice and a first orifice is defined a cross sectional area to flow cold water, such that the cross sectional area to flow the hot water becomes increased or decreased with the change of the cross sectional area to flow the cold water, thus adjusting a mixed rate of the hot and the cold waters to obtain a predetermined temperature; a rotating element actuated by a driving motor to rotate at an original position to further actuate the valve core to move.

Claims

1. A temperature controlling valve comprising

a base including a peripheral wall, a first end wall, and a second end wall among which is defined a receiving groove;

the peripheral wall includes two different axial positions to pass through a first tunnel for flowing hot water and a second tunnel for flowing cold water so as to further communicate with the receiving groove;

the peripheral wall including a first passage arranged on one side thereof proximate to the second end wall to communicate with the receiving groove;

a housing limited in the receiving groove of the base and including a peripheral rim, among the peripheral rim and the peripheral wall of the base being defined a first external chamber to receive the hot water and to communicate with the first tunnel and defined a second external chamber to receive the cold water and to communicate with the second tunnel;

the peripheral rim of the housing including at least one first bore to flow the hot water arranged thereon relative to the first external chamber, and including at least one first orifice to flow the cold water arranged thereon in relation to the second external chamber;

a valve core fitted to the housing and including an upper disc, a middle disc, and a lower disc;

between the upper disc and the middle disc being defined a first internal chamber to receive the hot water;

between the middle disc and the lower disc being defined a second internal chamber in the peripheral rim of the housing to receive the cold water;

the middle disc including at least one first pore arranged thereon to communicate the first internal chamber with the second internal chamber;

the lower disc including al least one second pore thereon to communicate the second internal chamber with the first passage;

the first internal chamber communicating with the first bore to define a cross sectional area to flow the hot water;

the second internal chamber communicating with the first orifice to define a cross sectional area to flow the cold water;

a rotating element pivoted on the first end wall of the base to move at an original position, and including a connecting portion and a screwing portion;

the screwing portion allowing to actuate the valve core to move upward and downward so that the cross sectional area to flow the hot water becomes increased or decreased with the change of the cross sectional area to flow the cold water.

2. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base further includes a body and an upper cover;

the body includes the peripheral wall and the second end wall of the base formed therein to define a cylinder trench which includes an opening attached on a top end of the cylinder trench;

the upper cover is covered to the opening of the body to form the first end wall of the base, wherein the upper cover includes a first hole mounted on a central position thereof to insert the rotating element, and the connecting portion of the rotating element is located at an outer side of the first hole, the screwing portion is located at an inner side of the first hole.

3. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 2, wherein the upper cover includes a positioning slot disposed at a top surface thereof to receive a bearing, and the rotating element passes through the bearing.

4. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 2, wherein the upper cover includes a plurality of first seal rings retained thereon to engage with the peripheral wall of the body, and the first seal rings includes a coupling wall radially extending from a top end thereof to contact with the peripheral wall of the body.

5. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 2, wherein the peripheral rim of the housing includes a first, a second, and a third annular projections, each of the first, the second, and the third annular projections includes a second seal ring retained thereon to engage with the peripheral wall of the base so that among the peripheral rim of the housing, the second seal ring of the first annular projection, the second seal ring of the second annular projection, and the peripheral wall of the base is defined the first external chamber, and among the peripheral rim of the housing, the second seal ring of the second annular projection, the second seal ring of the third annular projection, and the peripheral wall of the base is defined the second external chamber.

6. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 5, wherein a bottom end of the third annular projection of the housing is engaged with a stepped fence of the peripheral wall of the base, and a bottom end of the upper cover is engaged with a top end of the first annular projection so that the housing is retained in the receiving groove of the base.

7. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein the peripheral rim of the housing includes a plurality of the first bores to flow the hot water arranged around a circumferential direction thereof and spaced apart from each other evenly, and includes a number of the first orifices to flow the cold water arranged around a circumferential direction thereof and spaced apart from each other equally.

8. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 7, wherein top surfaces of the first bores are located at the same axial height, and bottom surfaces of the first bores are located at the same axial height;

top surfaces of the first orifices are located at the same axial height, and bottom surfaces of the first orifices are located at the same axial height.

9. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 7, wherein the top surfaces of the first bores are located at the same axial height, and the bottom surfaces of the first bores are located at different axial heights;

the top surfaces of the first orifices are located at different axial heights, and the bottom surfaces of the first orifices are located at the same axial height.

10. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein between the upper disc and the middle disc of the valve core is defined a second bore to flow the hot water relative to the first bores so that the first external chamber communicates with the first internal chamber through the first bores and the second bore;

between the middle disc and the lower disc of the valve core is defined a second orifice to flow the cold water in relation to the first orifices so that the second external chamber communicates with the second internal chamber via the first orifice and the second orifice;

an axial width of the second orifice is equal to that of the second bore.

11. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein between the upper disc and the middle disc of the valve core is defined a second bore to flow the hot water relative to the first bores so that the first external chamber communicates with the first internal chamber through the first bores and the second bore;

between the middle disc and the lower disc of the valve core is defined a second orifice to flow the cold water in relation to the first orifices so that the second external chamber communicates with the second internal chamber via the first orifice and the second orifice;

an axial width of the second orifice is larger than that of the second bore.

12. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein the valve core includes a screwed tube portion secured at a center thereof, and includes the upper disc, the middle disc, and the lower disc, all of which radially extends from an outer surface of the screwed tube portion in order;

the screwed tube portion includes a first screw aperture extending axially in an interior thereof;

the screwing portion is a screw shaft to screw with the first screw aperture of the screwed tub portion.

13. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 11 further comprising a driving motor having an output shank which connects with the connecting portion of the rotating element to be actuated to rotate by the rotating element.

14. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein the peripheral wall of the base includes two limiting fences proximate to the second end wall;

the lower disc of the valve core includes two defining tabs extending from a bottom end thereof to be retained on one side of the limiting fences so that the valve core can not rotate but be limited to move vertically in the housing.

15. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein the upper disc of the valve core includes a first shield extending therefrom to contact with the peripheral rim of the housing and to close the first pore;

an outer peripheral surface of the middle disc contacts with an inner peripheral surface of the peripheral rim of the housing;

the lower disc includes a second shield extending from a bottom end thereof to contact with the peripheral rim of the housing and to close the first orifice.

16. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein the middle disc includes a plurality of the first pores arranged around a circumferential direction thereof and spaced apart from each other equally.

17. The temperature controlling valve as claimed in claim 2, wherein the driving motor is screwed with the upper cover by using a plurality of third bolts.