Valve, Valve Device and Method for Assembling a Valve Device

• US 20150308585A1
• Filed: 07/10/2015
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fur Nutzfahrzeuge GMBH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Original Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fur Nutzfahrzeuge GMBH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Inventors: KONCZ, Laszlo, FARKAS, Gabor, PAPP, Lajos, MAJLATH, Attila
• Application Number:
  US14/796,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20150308585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/602 Pivoting levers, e.g. single-sided F16K31/605 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/607 characterised by particular material, by special measures to obtain aesthetical effects, or by auxiliary functions, e.g. storage
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/04 Controlling members for hand actuation by pivoting movement, e.g. levers

Abstract

A valve, in particular a pneumatic suspension valve for a vehicle, is provided. The valve includes a valve body with a driver. The driver has a receiving section for receiving an actuating lever which can be fixed on the driver. Said receiving section is design to receive, without retrofitting the receiving section, an actuating lever having a first cross-sectional profile to receive an actuating lever having a second cross-sectional profile which is different from the first cross-sectional profile.

Claims

1. A valve, comprising:

a valve body;

a driver of the valve body, the driver comprising a receiving section, wherein

the receiving section is configured to receive an actuation lever with a first cross-sectional profile or an actuation lever with a second cross-sectional profile, the first and second cross-sectional profiles differing from one another, without any retrofitting of the receiving section of the driver.

2. The valve according to claim 1, wherein the valve is a pneumatic suspension valve.

3. The valve according to claim 1, wherein the receiving section has a circular profile section for receiving the actuation lever having a circular cross-sectional profile and has a tetragonal profile section for receiving the actuation lever with a tetragonal cross-sectional profile.

4. The valve according to claim 3, wherein the circular profile section and the tetragonal profile section of the receiving section extend through the driver as a common passage opening along a receiving axis of the actuation lever in the receiving section.

5. The valve according to claim 4, wherein

the receiving section is configured to engage around narrow sides of a tetragonal cross-sectional profile of the actuation lever having a tetragonal cross-sectional profile in a U-shaped manner, and

wherein the receiving section is placed in contact with the narrow sides of the tetragonal cross-sectional profile and subsections of long sides of the tetragonal cross-sectional profile, which subsections adjoin the narrow sides.

6. The valve according to claim 4, wherein the receiving section is configured to be placed in contact with two circumferential subsections of a circular cross-sectional profile of the actuation lever having the circular cross-sectional profile.

7. The valve according to claim 3, wherein the receiving section is configured to be placed in contact with two circumferential subsections of a circular cross-sectional profile of the actuation lever having the circular cross-sectional profile.

8. The valve according to claim 1, further comprising a fastening device arrangeable on the driver, the fastening device serving to fasten the actuation lever in the receiving section of the driver.

9. The valve according to claim 8, wherein the fastening device has an axis of longitudinal extent that extends substantially transversely with respect to a receiving axis of the actuation lever in the receiving section.

10. A valve device, comprising:

a valve having a valve body with a driver, the driver having a receiving section; and

an actuation lever having a first cross-sectional profile or a second cross-sectional profile, the first and second cross-sectional profiles differing from one another, wherein

the receiving section of the driver is configured to receive the actuation lever with the first cross-sectional profile or the actuation lever with the second cross-sectional profile without any retrofitting of the receiving section.

11. The valve device according to claim 10, wherein the receiving section has a circular profile section for receiving the actuation lever having a circular cross-sectional profile and has a tetragonal profile section for receiving the actuation lever with a tetragonal cross-sectional profile.

12. The valve device according to claim 11, wherein the circular profile section and the tetragonal profile section of the receiving section extend through the driver as a common passage opening along a receiving axis of the actuation lever in the receiving section.

13. The valve device according to claim 12, wherein

the receiving section is configured to engage around narrow sides of a tetragonal cross-sectional profile of the actuation lever having a tetragonal cross-sectional profile in a U-shaped manner, and

wherein the receiving section is placed in contact with the narrow sides of the tetragonal cross-sectional profile and subsections of long sides of the tetragonal cross-sectional profile, which subsections adjoin the narrow sides.

14. The valve according to claim 11, wherein the receiving section is configured to be placed in contact with two circumferential subsections of a circular cross-sectional profile of the actuation lever having the circular cross-sectional profile.

15. The valve according to claim 10, further comprising a fastening device arrangeable on the driver, the fastening device serving to fasten the actuation lever in the receiving section of the driver.

16. The valve according to claim 15, wherein the fastening device has an axis of longitudinal extent that extends substantially transversely with respect to a receiving axis of the actuation lever in the receiving section.

17. A method for assembling a valve device, the method comprising the acts of:

providing a valve body having a driver;

providing an actuation lever attachable to the driver, the actuation lever having either a first cross-sectional profile or a second cross-sectional profile, which first and second cross-sectional profiles differ from one another; and

arranging the actuation lever in a receiving section of the driver, the receiving section being configured to alternatively receive the actuation lever with the first cross-sectional profile and the actuation lever with the second cross-sectional profile, without any need to retrofit the receiving section.

18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising the act of fastening the actuation lever in the receiving section of the driver via a fastener arranged on the driver.