Electromagnetically actuated valve

• US 5,127,625 A
• Filed: 02/14/1991
• Issued: 07/07/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Avl Medical Instruments AG (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Avl Medical Instruments AG (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Kleinhappl, Erich
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenthal, Arnold
• Application Number:
  US07/655,170
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 251/65, 251/331, 251/129.15, 251/129.17
• US Class Current: 251/129.17
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/06 using a magnet , e.g. diaphragm valves, cutting off by means of a liquid
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0655 Lift valves
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0658 Armature and valve member being one single element
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0672 the valve member being a diaphragm

Abstract

Electromagnetically actuated valve, comprising an actuating device, a movable plunger and a valve chamber with an opening for the medium passing through it, which opening may be closed by the plunger. In order to ensure safe functioning of the valve at small closing forces, the valve chamber is totally sealed against the actuating device and the movable plunger by means of a flexible diaphragm, the diaphragm being fitted into the housing along its circumference and being pressed against the edge of the opening by the movable plunger.

Claims

1. An electromagnetically actuated valve with a valve chamber, comprising

an actuating device,

a movable plunger,

a valve chamber with an opening for a medium passing through it, which opening can be closed by means of said plunger, and

a flexible disk-shaped substantially flat diaphragm completely sealing said valve chamber against the actuating device and said movable plunger, which diaphragm is fitted into the housing and may be pressed against the edge of the opening by means of said movable plunger, and which diaphragm is attached to a fixed part of the valve along its circumference,

said plunger having two extreme positions which are both stable, wherein a permanent magnet is provided to hold said movable plunger in one of its two stable position, said plunger being provided with both a pole face and a stop face which stop face will determine one extreme position of said plunger together with a corresponding counter face in the housing, a device being provided in the area between the pole face of said plunger and a fixed pole face cooperating with the pole face of the plunger, for the purpose of bridging the air gap between the pole faces and transmitting the magnetic flux.

2. An electromagnetically valve according to claim 1, wherein said plunger is held by the permanent magnet in its extreme position corresponding to the open valve, and wherein a spring is provided which will hold said plunger in its other extreme position.

3. An electromagnetically actuated valve according to claim 1, wherein the device transmitting the magnetic flux is configured as an annular short-circuit plate assuming a tilted position when said plunger is in extreme position.