Slide valve

• US 7,828,267 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2006
• Issued: 11/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KITZ SCT Corporation (KITZ Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KITZ SCT Corporation (KITZ Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwabuchi, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Fristoe, Jr.; John K
• Application Number:
  US11/921,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20090127487A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,615 Days
• Field of Search: 251/175, 251/193, 251/298, 251/301, 251/302, 251/303
• US Class Current: 251/175
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 39/045 of rotating or pivoting type

Abstract

A slide valve is provided, in which the conductance in the minimum region is controllable with high accuracy to enable stable control, a slide plate is prevented from plastically deforming to acquire good controllability of the minimum flow rate, and it is possible to detach a valve element and an air drive portion integrally with the slide plate, thereby facilitating the maintenance. The slide valve includes a body having a flow path, a slide plate provided within the body and between a closing position preventing a flow on the flow path and an open position permitting the flow, disposed perpendicularly relative to a flow path axis and movable horizontally or on a straight line, and a valve element incorporated in the slide plate and operated in a direction of the flow path axis to switch between the closing position and the open position of the slide plate by air cylinder drive. The slide plate has an upper surface and a lower surface that form small clearances in cooperation with the body when the valve element is in the open position, thereby enabling control of the minimum conductance. When the valve element has been in the closing position to induce a pressure difference load, the slide plate when receiving the pressure difference load is not plastically deformed.

Claims

1. A slide valve comprising:

a body having a flow path and a rotary shaft;

a slide plate having a proximal end, provided within the body and between a closing position preventing a flow on the flow path and an open position permitting the flow, the slide plate being disposed perpendicularly relative to a flow path axis and movable horizontally, the rotary shaft having a communication hole and an air discharge path at a portion thereof to be connected to the proximal end of the slide plate, the slide plate having an air supply and discharge port and an air discharge port;

a valve element incorporated in the slide plate and movable in a direction of the flow path axis to switch between the closing position and the open position of the slide plate, wherein the proximal end of the slide plate is detachably attached to the rotary shaft of the body; and

a detachable O-ring for simultaneously sealing the communication hole, air discharge path, air supply and discharge port, and air discharge port.

2. A slide valve according to claim 1, wherein the proximal end of the slide plate has a trapezoidal shape and the rotary shaft of the body has a trapezoidal portion in which the trapezoidal shape of the rotary shaft is fitted, whereby the proximal end is connected to the rotary shaft, with the trapezoidal shape of the rotary shaft fitted in the trapezoidal portion.

3. A slide valve according to claim 1, wherein the rotary shaft has a screw part to which the proximal end of the slide plate is fastened via a nut, and the slide plate is movable horizontally in a state of being not slid.

4. A slide valve according to claim 3, wherein the screw part of the rotary shaft is provided midway thereof with an unwrought part at which the nut is idled to be prevented from falling off.

5. A slide valve according to claim 1, further comprising a cylinder for closing the valve element, wherein the cylinder has a piston rod having a dual seal structure and the air discharge port of the slide plate communicates with an intermediate part of the dual seal structure.

6. A slide valve according to claim 1, wherein the valve element is incorporated in the slide plate on a downstream side of the slide plate.

7. A slide valve according to claim 1, further comprising an apparatus chamber having an opening, wherein the body is attached directly to the opening.