Patent ID: 7159615
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: F16K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A flow rate control valve comprising: a valve body having an input port, an output port and an exhaust port; a valve means that is arranged in said valve body and controls a communication between said ports; and an electromagnetic operation means for driving said valve means; which is characterized in: that said valve body is provided with a communication chamber for communicating said input port with said output port, and two valve holes formed, being opposed to each other, on both sides of said communication chamber, said communication chamber having an annular partitioning plate arranged therein; that said valve means is composed of: a first valve body having a slide portion that is provided at one end portion thereof and is slidably fitted into one of said valve holes, a first valve portion having a tapered surface that is formed at the central portion thereof and is seated on a seat portion formed in the inner periphery of said annular partitioning plate, a second valve portion provided at another end portion, and a communication passage that penetrates through in the axial direction and communicates with said exhaust port; a second valve body having a slide portion slidably fitted into the other valve hole, a valve portion that is provided at one end portion thereof and comes in contact with the second valve portion of said first valve body, and a communication passage that penetrates through in the axial direction and communicates with said exhaust port; a first seal disposed between said slide portion of said first valve body and the inner peripheral surface of said one valve hole; a second seal disposed between said slide portion of said second valve body and the inner peripheral surface of said other valve hole; a first spring for urging said first valve body in a direction in which said first valve portion is seated on said seat portion of said partitioning plate; and a second spring disposed between said first valve body and said second valve body to urge them in the directions in which they separate away from each other; that diameters of the slide surfaces of said first seal and said second seal, a diameter of the contact portion at which said first valve portion of said first valve body is seated on said seat portion of said partitioning plate, and a diameter of the contact portion at which the valve portion of said second valve body comes into contact with said second valve portion of said first valve body are set to be equal; and that said electromagnetic operation means is so constituted as to operate said second valve body toward said first valve body side when it is energized.