Patent ID: 11958336
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  F | IPC B  F

Claim 1:
2. A valve comprising:
a valve housing including
a sidewall having an open first end and an open second end that is opposite the first end,
a detachable lid that closes the first end of the sidewall,
a base that is disposed at the second end of the sidewall and is perpendicular to the sidewall, the base, the lid and the sidewall cooperating to define a chamber,
chamber walls that segregate the chamber into subchambers that each provide a portion of one or more fluid paths through the valve housing, and
valve ports, where each valve port
communicates with a subchamber, and
is provided in the base such that each valve port is an axially-extending through hole that resides in a plane that is common to all valve ports:

a diverter, assembly disposed in the chamber, the diverter assembly configured to control fluid flow through the valve housing, the diverter assembly including a shaft that protrudes from the valve housing, the shaft being rotatable about a rotational axis that is parallel to the sidewall; and
a seal assembly disposed in the chamber so as to be aligned along the rotational axis with the diverter assembly,
wherein the subchambers comprise
a cylindrical first subchamber that is centered on the rotational axis and receives the diverter assembly and the seal assembly therein, and
a second subchamber that is disposed radially outward with respect to the first subchamber,

and wherein the valve ports include
a first valve port that communicates with the first subchamber, and
a second valve port that communicates with the second subchamber.