Solenoid valve, especially an outlet valve for infusion water

• US 4,826,132 A
• Filed: 07/21/1988
• Issued: 05/02/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Firma AUK Mullen GmbH & Company KG Buclerstr
• Original Assignee: Firma A.U.K. Muller GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Moldenhauer, Hermann
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenthal, Arnold
• Application Number:
  US07/222,475
• Time in Patent Office: 285 Days
• Field of Search: 251/129.17, 251/333, 251/331, 251/368, 137/242, 137/375
• US Class Current: 251/129.17
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0655 Lift valves
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0696 Shock absorbing, e.g. using a dash-pot
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/4273 Mechanical cleaning
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/7036 Jacketed

Abstract

A solenoid valve, especially an outlet valve for infusion water. A valve chamber (2) is accommodated in a valve housing (1) and communicates with a supply channel (Z) and with a drain channel (A) by way of a valve seat (3). The magnetic armature (6) of a magnetic system accommodated on valve housing (1) is connected to a valve plate (10) accommodated in the valve chamber (2) opposite the valve seat (3). The valve chamber (2) is sealed off from the interior (11) of the magnetic system by an isolating diaphragm (12). To prevent calcium deposits, the valve seat (3) has a sheet (13) of polytetrafluoroethylene accommodated coaxially along its inner circumference and projecting beyond the surface of the valve seat (3) on the side facing the valve plate (10). The upper edge of the sheet (13) facing the valve plate (10) is in sealing plane with respect to the valve plate. The valve plate (10) consists of a resilient material that is softer than the sheet (13), and the surface that faces the valve seat (3) is radially at an acute angle to the sealing plane in the vicinity of the contact areas.

Claims

1. In a solenoid valve, having a valve housing, means forming a valve chamber in the housing, including a valve seat, a supply channel in communication with a drain channel, a supply channel in communication with the chamber, magnetic means mounted on the valve housing and including a magnetic coil and a magnetic armature positioned in a positioning tube within the magnet coil, a valve plate having one end facing the valve seat, a valve shaft connecting another end of the valve plate to the armature and means sealing off the valve chamber from the interior of the positioning tube comprising an isolating diaphragm having an outer edge connected to the valve housing and an inner edge connected to the valve plate, the improvement wherein the valve seat has an inner circumference and a planar surface facing the valve plate and the valve seat has a sheet of polytetrafluoroethylene extending along the inner circumference thereof and coaxial with the axis of the valve shaft and projecting outwardly from the valve seat longitudinally on the side facing the valve plate beyond the surface of the valve seat to a preselected extent, with the surface of the edge of the sheet facing the valve plate situated in a sealing plane perpendicular to the axis of the valve shaft, wherein the valve plate is composed of a resilient material that is softer than the sheet, and wherein the surface of the valve plate that faces the valve seat is radically at an acute angle to the sealing plane at least at the points of contact.

2. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 1, wherein the isolating diaphragm is integral with the valve plate.

3. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 2, wherein the isolating diaphragm and valve plate are composed of a silicone material.

4. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 1, wherein the sheet has the shape of a closed tubular section.

5. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 1, wherein the sheet projects beyond the surface of the valve seat approximately as far as the sheet is thick.

6. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 1, wherein the interior of the positioning tube in an area immediately above the isolating diaphragm has at least one vent for communicating with the space outside the valve.

7. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 6, comprising several vents at the circumference of the valve housing and distributed in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the valve shaft.

8. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 1, wherein the valve plate comprises substantially the frustum of a cone and means securing same to the valve shaft comprising a threaded connection with a pin having a non-cutting thread shaped onto one end of valve shaft and engaging a bore in the valve plate.

9. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 1, wherein the valve plate is frustoconical and further comprising a tubular support in the frustoconical valve plate coaxial with the axis of the valve shaft and extending toward the magnetic armature out of the valve plate and into the interior of the positioning tube and wherein the support has drainage grooves extending along its entire length, at least on its outer surface.

10. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 9, wherein the support surrounds the valve shaft and is adjacent to the magnetic armature and has connecting openings at least in the vicinity of the drainage grooves in the end of the support adjacent to the magnetic armature, whereby the openings connect the interior of the support with the interior of the positioning tube.

11. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 1, wherein the magnetic means has a head at an upper portion thereof and a second sheet composed of a polymer that contains fluorene and with graphite or carbon as a filler is inserted into a section of the positioning tube adjacent to the head and surrounding the magnetic armature at its surface to a given extent and is secured axially and radially at least at an end facing the head.

12. The solenoid valve in accordance with claim 11, wherein the magnetic armature has a longitudinal bore of a given depth on a side facing the head, wherein the bore accommodates a helical spring and the head has a projection that engages the longitudinal bore, with one end of the coil spring secured to the projection, and wherein a third sheet of a polymer that contains fluorene and has graphite or carbon as a filler is inserted into the longitudinal bore and surrounds the spring.