Electromagnetic valve having nonmagnetic member between stator core and moving core

• US 6,547,215 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2001
• Issued: 04/15/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Oishi, Kenichi, Iwasaki, Kazutoshi, Matsusaka, Noboru
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): KEASEL, ERIC S
• Application Number:
  US09/782,295
• Publication Number:
  US 20010013584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 251/129.15, 137/625.69, 137/375, 335/248, 335/277, 335/257, 335/278
• US Class Current: 251/129.15
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0613 with cylindrical slides
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0624 Lift valves
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/7036 Jacketed

Abstract

A stator core integrally includes a container portion and an attracting portion. The container portion contains and supports a plunger to allow it to reciprocate thereinside. The attracting portion magnetically attracts the plunger. The plunger includes a moving core made of magnetic material, and a nonmagnetic cup fit to the moving core. The cup integrally includes a cylindrical wall covering the outside wall of the moving core, and a bottom covering the lower end of the moving core. Air gap between the moving core and the container portion can be reduced by making the thickness of the cup as thin as possible. Thus, an attracting force for attracting the plunger without increasing winding number of the coil.

Claims

1. An electromagnetic device, comprising:

a moving core made of magnetic material;

a stator core having a container portion, a thin wall portion and an attraction portion, the container portion, the thin wall portion and the attraction portion being formed integrally with a continuous magnetic material, the container portion containing and supporting said moving core therein, said moving core being movably supported in a reciprocating direction, the attraction portion defining a stopper facing an axial end surface of the moving core contained in the container portion and magnetically attracting said moving core in the reciprocating direction of said moving core, and the thin wall portion being provided as a magnetic resistor between the container portion and the attraction portion for magnetically partitioning therebetween;

a coil disposed on an outside of the container portion, the coil being electrically energized to generate a magnetic force for attracting said moving core toward said attraction portion; and

a cylindrical cup-shaped nonmagnetic member attached on said moving core so as to be movable therewith, the cylindrical cup-shaped nonmagnetic member covering said axial end surface of said moving core facing the stopper, an entire outside surface of said moving core which faces an inner surface of said container portion, and a edge between said axial end surface and said outside surface.

2. The electromagnetic device according to claim 1, wherein

the other axial end surface of said moving core includes one of a projection and a concave, and

a member facing the other end surface of said moving core includes the other one of a projection and a concave fitting to said one of the projection and the concave of the other axial end surface of said moving core.

3. The electromagnetic device according to claim 1, wherein a plating is coated on an inner wall of said container portion, which faces said moving core, for reducing a slide resistance between said cylindrical cup-shaped nonmagnetic member and the inner wall of said container portion.

4. The electromagnetic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a cylindrical housing including a plurality of fluid passages penetrating through a peripheral wall thereof;

a valve member reciprocating with said moving core for switching communications among the plurality of fluid passages; and

an urging means for urging said valve member in a direction opposite to the magnetic force attracting said moving core.