Gate valve

• US 6,561,483 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2001
• Issued: 05/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Irie Koken Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Irie Koken Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Masaharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Scherbel, David A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bastianelli, John
• Application Number:
  US09/876,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20020066877A1
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• Field of Search: 251/193, 251/195, 251/196, 251/326, 251/327, 251/328, 251/329, 251/175, 251/335.3
• US Class Current: 251/175
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 3/188 by means of hydraulic forces
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 51/02 specially adapted for high-vacuum installations

Abstract

A gate valve according to the present invention including a first valve plate having a valve opening and a second valve plate connected to the first valve plate via a first bellows, in which the rigidity and the like of the valve plates, a valve rod, and the like can be reduced as compared to that in a conventional art by canceling the differential pressure.

Claims

1. A gate valve comprising:

a first valve plate having a valve opening; and

a second valve plate connected to the first valve plate via a first bellows,

wherein the valve opening is positioned so as to introduce a pressure which acts on said second valve plate; and

wherein said second valve plate is movable in a direction away from and toward said first valve plate.

2. A gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the first valve plate has a valve rod connected thereto.

3. A gate valve according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said first bellows are arranged in parallel, and the first valve plate has valve openings, each corresponding to one of the first bellows.

4. A gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the first valve plate has a first sealing member at a surface thereof.

5. A gate valve according to claim 4, further comprising:

a valve casing for enclosing the first valve plate and the second valve plate in such a manner that the valve plates are movable;

a first valve seat formed at a first opening of the valve casing and with which the first sealing member comes into contact; and

a first stopper formed at a second opening of the valve casing and with which the second valve plate comes into contact.

6. A gate valve according to claim 5, wherein the valve casing has a second stopper provided at the inside thereof, said second stopper being located between the first valve plate and second valve plate and coming into contact with the inner face of the second valve plate.

7. A gate valve according to claim 1, further comprising:

a valve casing for enclosing the first valve plate and the second valve plate in a manner so as to be moved;

a first sealing member formed at a first opening of the valve casing; and

a first stopper formed at a second opening of the valve casing and with which the second valve plate comes into contact.

8. A gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the first valve plate has a second stopper provided at the inside of the first bellows, said second stopper coming into contact with the second valve plate.

9. A gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the second valve plate has a second stopper extending to the side of the first valve plate and located on the inside of the first bellows.

10. A gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the second valve plate has a second stopper extending to the side of the first valve plate and located on the outside of the first bellows.

11. A gate valve according to claim 1, wherein a pressure-receiving area of the seat section of the first valve plate is smaller than a pressure-receiving area of the first bellows, which is based on the opening of the first bellows.

12. A gate valve according to claim 1, wherein the shape of the valve opening formed at the first valve plate is one of a circle, a rectangle, a triangle, and an ellipse.

13. A gate valve comprising:

a first valve plate having a valve opening;

a second valve plate connected to the first valve plate via a first bellows;

a valve casing for enclosing the first valve plate and the second valve plate in such a manner that the valve plates are movable;

a first valve seat formed at a first opening of the valve casing and with which the first sealing member comes into contact; and

a first stopper formed at a second opening of the valve casing and with which the second valve plate comes into contact.

14. A gate valve according to claim 13, wherein the valve casing has a second stopper provided at the inside thereof, said second stopper being located between the first valve plate and second valve plate and coming into contact with the inner face of the second valve plate.

15. A gate valve comprising:

a first valve plate having a valve opening;

a second valve plate connected to the first valve plate via a first bellows;

a valve casing for enclosing the first valve plate and the second valve plate in a manner so as to be moved;

a first sealing member formed at a first opening of the valve casing; and

a first stopper formed at a second opening of the valve casing and with which the second valve plate comes into contact.