Patent ID: 8689833

Claim:
A valve device for the supply of fluid to fluid consumers, with several valve modules arranged next to one another in a direction of stacking, wherein each valve module comprises a plate-shaped passage body which has a feed passage recess designed for connection with a fluid source, two operating passages provided for coupling to the fluid consumers, and a venting passage recess for venting the fluid consumers, together with two connection surfaces, parallel and opposite to one another, and outside surfaces aligned at right-angles to the connection surfaces, wherein the connection surfaces determine the direction of stacking and are designed to abut passage bodies adjacent to the connection surfaces, and four 2/2-way valves each having a first and second fluidic connection and a movable valve member for the setting of a free fluid passage cross-section between the first and second fluidic connection, wherein the four 2/2-way valves of the valve modules are connected to one another in a full bridge arrangement in which the first fluidic connections of the first and second 2/2-way valves are connected to the feed passage recess, the second fluidic connection of the first 2/2-way valve and the first fluidic connection of the fourth 2/2-way valve are connected to a first operating passage, the second fluidic connection of the second 2/2-way valve and the first fluidic connection of the third 2/2-way valve are connected to a second operating passage, and the second fluidic connections of the third and fourth 2/2-way valves are connected to the venting passage recess, and wherein each 2/2-way valve includes an electrically operable actuating means which is fitted on to an outer surface of the passage body serving as a mounting face, and is designed to switch the respectively assigned movable valve member between a closed position and an open position, wherein there is provided at a connection face of the passage body an additional module which is connected so as to communicate with one or both operating passages and is designed to control a fluid flow and/or to determine a parameter of the fluid flow from or to the operating passage.