Patent ID: 8602055

Claim:
A hydraulic valve, comprising: a valve housing having a cover part; a fluid port arrangement extending at least partially in said valve housing and including a pressure supply port for supplying working pressure, a return port, a section load sensing port, first and second control ports and first and second useful ports for providing useful port pressure; a movable control device coupled to said ports for activating said ports, said control device being pressurizable with a control pressure from a respective activation unit on opposite first and second control sides of said control device; and a media-carrying channel connecting said activation unit with the respective control side of said control device for conveying control pressure therebetween, said media-carrying channel having a guide path extending at least partially as an open channel guide closed by said cover part as a shut off part, said guide path having a first path section opening at free ends thereof into second path sections tilted relative to said first path section, said first path section forming a middle section adjacent to said control device and having ends undergoing transitions into said second path sections to form intermediate sections, free ends of said intermediate sections undergoing transitions in end path sections being parallel to a direction of said first path section, free ends of said end path section opening respectively in directions of said activation and the respective control side of said control device.