Patent ID: 7080663
Filing Date: 2006-07-25
Classification: F15B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Valve assembly for load pressure-independent control of consumers, including a main valve for regulating a pressure medium flow to or from the consumer, wherein in a pressure medium flow path between a work port and the main valve a shut-off valve is arranged which permits a pressure medium flow to the work port and which is capable of being controlled open in the opposite direction through the intermediary of a pilot valve, wherein a pilot piston of the pilot valve is capable of being raised from a pilot control seat by displacing a main slide of the main valve, and the valve axis of the pilot valve is arranged at a parallel distance from the axis of the shut-off valve and about coaxially with the axis of the main valve, and the main slide and the pilot piston are capable of being taken into contact via a tappet.