Patent ID: 8240291

Claim:
A pressure relief valve comprising: a body including a guide bore, a seat surface, an inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet; a valve member received within at least a portion of the body and including a guide portion slideably received within the guide bore, a valve seat configured to sealingly engage the seat surface, and an internal passage extending axially along the guide portion, at least one radial passage in fluid communication with the internal passage; and a resilient member coupled between the body and the valve member, the resilient member biasing the valve seat of the valve member into engagement with the seat surface of the body; wherein the valve member is moveable between a first position in which the valve seat is sealingly engaged with the seat surface and the inlet is fluidly blocked from the first outlet and the second outlet, a second position in which the valve seat is disengaged with the seat surface and the inlet is fluidly coupled to the first outlet but not to the second outlet, and a third position in which the inlet is fluidly coupled to the first outlet and the internal passage of the valve member fluidly couples the inlet to the second outlet via the radial passage.