Patent ID: 9268341
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G05D

Claim Text:
1. A thermostatic cartridge for regulating hot and cold fluids to be mixed, the thermostatic cartridge comprising: a casing, which is hollow, which defines an axis and which delimits an outlet for a mixture of the hot and cold fluids, a slide valve for regulating a temperature of the mixture, which: a thermostatic element, which comprises a piston, connected to the casing, and a body secured to the slide valve, the piston and the body being mobile in relation to one another substantially according to the axis under an action of an expanding of a heat expandable material contained in the body along a thermosensitive part from which flows the mixture downstream of the slide valve, wherein the flow passage is adapted to direct the first fluid on the second fluid inlet, being at least partially delimited, by both a guiding surface for guiding the first fluid on the second fluid inlet, which runs over most of an inside periphery of the slide valve, and by an opposed surface which is radially opposite the guiding surface and which has, in an axial cross-section, substantially the same profile as the guiding surface.