Patent ID: 8246004

Claim:
A valve cartridge for a solenoid valve, having a capsule, a magnet armature guided movably inside the capsule, a valve insert inserted into the capsule, and a valve body with a main valve seat, in which the magnet armature, moved by a magnetic force that has been generated, moves a tappet guided by the valve insert, which tappet has a closing element with a sealing element, and in which the sealing element, for performing a sealing function, plunges sealingly into the main valve seat, the valve insert being embodied for bracing itself by at least two ribs radially on the capsule, and the tappet being guided between the valve insert and the capsule via at least two corresponding longitudinal ribs of the tappet, wherein dimensions of the at least two ribs of the valve insert and dimensions of the at least two corresponding longitudinal ribs of the tappet are adapted to one another.