Patent ID: 7600738

Claim:
Output shaft coupling structure of electrically operated control valve including: a valve rod which is provided with valve for opening and closing fluid passage and is mounted to valve housing in such a way as to move along an axial direction; and an electrically controlled motor for driving the valve rod along the axial direction, and the coupling structure couples motor shaft of the electrically controlled motor to the valve rod, wherein a plate shaped like a flat plate is fixed at its center to end portion, to which the valve rod is coupled, of the motor shaft and both ends of the plate is bent downward in parallel substantially in an inversed U shaped in cross section to form hooking and engaging portion at its both ends, wherein tips of both end portions of the inversed U shaped plate oppose each other inwardly towards a head portion of the valve rod to form a slit into which the head portion of the valve rod is inserted from a lateral direction between the opposed tip portions.