Fluid control valve

• US 9,371,930 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2012
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Horiba STEC, Co., Ltd. (Horiba Limited)
• Original Assignee: Horiba STEC, Co., Ltd. (Horiba Limited)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Shigeyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): McCalister, William
• Application Number:
  US13/598,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20130048898A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,392 Days
• Field of Search: 251/337
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/44 Details of seats or valve members of double-seat valves
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/50 Preventing rotation of valve members
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/007 Piezoelectric stacks
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 47/00 Means in valves for absorbing fluid energy for pipes F16L55/00

Abstract

An object of this invention is both to prevent contamination of a fluid passing a fluid control valve and to prevent a tilt of a valve body in a moving direction and vibration of the valve body. The fluid control valve comprises a valve body that is arranged on an inner surface of a valve chest through a predetermined space in the valve chest and that is arranged on a valve seat arranged in the valve chest in a detachable manner, an actuator that biases the valve body in a direction of opening the valve, a valve body return spring that biases the valve body in a direction of closing the valve, and a tilt restraining spring that biases the valve body in a direction of resolving a tilt of the valve body to an open/close direction.

Claims

1. A fluid control valve that is configured to control a fluid from an upstream side flow channel and is configured to flow out the fluid to a downstream side flow channel, comprising

a valve body that is arranged within a valve chest, and that moves through a predetermined space in the valve chest without making contact with a fixed support member that has a surrounding surface that surrounds a side surface of the valve body, and that is arranged on a valve seat arranged in the valve chest in a detachable manner,

an actuator that is configured to bias the valve body in a direction of opening or closing the valve,

a valve body return spring that is configured to bias the valve body in a direction of closing or opening the valve and that is arranged in contact with the fixed support member and is arranged in contact with the valve body, and

a tilt restraining spring that is configured to bias the valve body in a direction of resolving a tilt of the valve body to the direction of opening or closing the valve and that is arranged in contact with the fixed support member and is arranged in contact with the valve body.

2. The fluid control valve described in claim 1, wherein

the tilt restraining spring has a ring-shaped body part, and a plurality of projecting parts that extend from the ring-shaped body part.

3. The fluid control valve described in claim 2, wherein

each of the plurality of projecting parts is of the same shape and formed at even intervals in a circumferential direction.

4. The fluid control valve described in claim 1, wherein

the valve body return spring is configured to apply a biasing force on a center side near a center axis of the valve body, and

the tilt restraining spring is configured to apply a biasing force on an outside peripheral side of the center side of the valve body where the biasing force of the valve body return spring is applied.

9. The fluid control valve described in claim 2, wherein

the ring-shaped body part is arranged to make contact with a surface that is located in an interior of the valve chest, and the plurality of projecting parts are arranged to make contact with the valve body side.

5. A fluid control valve that is configured to control a fluid from an upstream side flow channel and is configured to flow out the fluid to a downstream side flow channel, comprising

a valve body that is arranged within a valve chest, and that moves through a predetermined space in the valve chest without making contact with a fixed support member that has a surrounding surface that surrounds a side surface of the valve body, and that is arranged on a valve seat arranged in the valve chest in a detachable manner,

an actuator that biases the valve body in a direction of closing the valve,

a valve body return spring that biases the valve body in a direction of opening the valve and that is arranged in contact with the fixed support member and is arranged in contact with the valve body, and

a tilt restraining spring that biases the valve body in a direction of resolving a tilt of the valve body to the direction of opening or closing the valve, and that is arranged in contact with the fixed support member and is arranged in contact with the valve body.

6. The fluid control valve described in claim 5, wherein

the tilt restraining spring has a ring-shaped body part, and a plurality of projecting parts that extend from the ring-shaped body part.

7. The fluid control valve described in claim 6, wherein

each of the plurality of projecting parts is of the same shape and formed at even intervals in a circumferential direction.

8. The fluid control valve described in claim 5, wherein

the valve body return spring is configured to apply a biasing force on a center side near a center axis of the valve body, and

the tilt restraining spring is configured to apply a biasing force on an outside peripheral side of the center side of the valve body where the biasing force of the valve body return spring is applied.