Patent ID: 8807524

Claim:
An electromagnetic valve comprising: a valve case that is formed in a generally cylindrical shape from resin and includes: a side wall; a bottom wall; an auxiliary wall; a fitting groove; an opening formed at one end of the valve case; a peripheral end face formed at a peripheral border of the opening; a valve accommodating part formed eccentrically relative to a central axis of the opening; and a first port formed on an opposite side of the central axis of the opening from the valve accommodating part to communicate with an outside of the side wall or the bottom wall; a filter held by the fitting groove; a covering member that is formed from resin and includes: a top plate part welded or adhesively bonded on the peripheral end face to cover the opening; a second port communicating with an outside of the top plate part; a cylindrical part extending from the top plate part toward the valve accommodating part and having a fluid passage that communicates with the second port; and a valve seat formed on an end face of the cylindrical part; a valve member that is accommodated in the valve accommodating part and is configured to be engaged with or disengaged from the valve seat so as to close or open a flow passage of fluid between the first port and the second port; an urging means accommodated in the valve accommodating part for urging the valve member in a direction to close or open the flow passage; and an electromagnetic driving unit accommodated in the valve accommodating part and configured to generate electromagnetic attraction so as to drive the valve member in the direction to close or open the flow passage against the urging means, wherein: an imaginary plane is provided to include a valve axis, which is a central axis of the valve accommodating part, and the central axis of the opening is a longitudinal symmetry plane; and an imaginary plane is provided to include the valve axis and perpendicular to the longitudinal symmetry plane is a shorter symmetry plane, the auxiliary wall is positioned symmetrically to the side wall, which is located closer to the valve axis, with respect to the shorter symmetry plane, the auxiliary wall being integrally formed with the valve case, and the auxiliary wall being separate from the filter and the fitting groove; the top plate part of the covering member is welded or adhesively bonded on an opening-side end face of the auxiliary wall; and the side wall and the auxiliary wall are welded and fixed to the covering member.