Hydraulic valve for cam phaser

• US 9,394,809 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2015
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hilite Germany GmbH (AVIC Electromechanical Systems Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hilite Germany GmbH (AVIC Electromechanical Systems Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Gruber, Erik, Oppel, Michael, Goll, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): Denion, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bernstein, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US14/622,887
• Publication Number:
  US 20150240673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 520 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F01L 1/3442 using hydraulic chambers with variable volume to transmit the rotating force
• CPC Class Codes: F01L 2001/34423 Details relating to the hydraulic feeding circuit
• CPC Class Codes: F01L 2001/34426 Oil control valves

Abstract

A hydraulic valve for a cam phaser including a valve housing with a longitudinal axis and a valve piston that is axially moveable along the longitudinal axis, wherein the valve piston opens and closes a first operating connection of the valve housing and a second operating connection of the valve housing, wherein the first operating connection and the second operating connection are axially offset from one another; and a supply connection of the valve housing which is used for supplying the hydraulic valve with a hydraulic fluid fed by a feed device, wherein the hydraulic valve is configured to be flowed through by the hydraulic fluid on different paths controlled by a flow permeable channel system of the valve piston, and wherein a check valve opening and closing an inflow channel is arranged in the hydraulic valve in the inflow channel of the valve housing.

Claims

1. A hydraulic valve for a cam phaser, the hydraulic valve comprising:

a valve housing with a longitudinal axis and a valve piston that is axially moveable along the longitudinal axis,

wherein the valve piston opens and closes a first operating connection of the valve housing and a second operating connection of the valve housing,

wherein the first operating connection and the second operating connection are axially offset from one another; and

a supply connection of the valve housing which is used for supplying the hydraulic valve with a hydraulic fluid fed by a feed device,

wherein the hydraulic valve is configured to be flowed through by the hydraulic fluid on different paths controlled by a flow permeable channel system of the valve piston, and

wherein a check valve opening and closing an inflow channel is arranged in the hydraulic valve in the inflow channel of the valve housing which inflow channel is associated with the supply connection,

wherein the check valve includes a disc shaped flow permeable first closure element with a first pass through opening and a spring element,

wherein the check valve includes a flow permeable second closure element with a second pass through opening,

wherein the first pass through opening is arranged opposite to a non flow permeable second outer section of the second closure element,

wherein the second pass through opening is arranged opposite to a non flow permeable first inner section of the first closure element, so that a relative movement between the first closure element and the second closure element causes an opening or closing of the check valve, and

wherein the spring presses the second closure element against the first closure element in a closed condition of the check valve.

2. The hydraulic valve according to the claim 1, wherein the first closure element is configured independent from the second closure element.

3. The hydraulic valve according to the claim 1, wherein the first closure element is configured non moveable and the second closure element is configured moveable.

4. The hydraulic valve according to claim 1, wherein the second closure element is configured axially moveable along the longitudinal axis.

5. The hydraulic valve according to claim 1, wherein the second closure element is configured disc shaped.

7. The hydraulic valve according to claim 1, wherein a first shoulder is configured in the inflow channel for axially securing the first closure element.

8. The hydraulic valve according to claim 1, wherein a seal element is configured at a first inflow surface of the first closure element which first inflow surface is arranged opposite to the second closure element or at a fourth inflow surface of the second closure element, which fourth closure surface is arranged opposite to the first closure element.

9. The hydraulic valve according to claim 1, wherein the first pass through opening is configured groove shaped and the second pass through opening is configured circular.

10. The hydraulic valve according to claim 1, wherein an axial movement of the first closure element or of the second closure element is supported by the spring element.

11. The hydraulic valve according to claim 1, wherein a seal element is configured at a first inflow surface of the first closure element which first inflow surface is arranged opposite to the second closure element and at a fourth inflow surface of the second closure element, which fourth closure surface is arranged opposite to the first closure element.

6. The hydraulic valve according to claim wherein the first pass through opening is configured in an outer section of the first closure element and the second pass through opening is configured in a second inner section of the second closure element.