US 11,746,915 B2
Valve assembly
Andreas Lechler, Moeglingen (DE); Wolf Stahr, Abstatt (DE); Patrick Schellnegger, Ludwigsburg (DE); Joern Kreutzer, Duelmen (DE); Christoph Eisele, Heilbronn (DE); Andrej Gardt, Abstatt (DE); Marcus Biehler, Wuestenrot (DE); Michael Kloss, Ilsfeld-Auenstein (DE); and Felix Schorn, Renningen (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/600,006
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/053108
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/200553, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 204 754.8 (DE), filed on Apr. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0178455 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. F16K 17/04 (2006.01); B60T 15/02 (2006.01); F16K 17/10 (2006.01); F16K 15/04 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 17/0433 (2013.01) [F16K 17/0406 (2013.01); B60T 15/02 (2013.01); F16K 15/042 (2013.01); F16K 17/105 (2013.01); Y10T 137/7927 (2015.04)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A valve subassembly comprising: a valve member in which a fluid channel which connects a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet is constructed, wherein: a closure member which is movably supported in the fluid channel is acted on with a pretensioning force in the direction of a valve seat which is constructed in the valve member such that in order to open the valve seat a fluid force acts on the closure member counter to the pretensioning force: the closure member is at least one of axially and radially guided by a plurality of guiding balls; and the plurality of guiding balls are arranged between the closure member and a lateral delimitation of the fluid channel and in a common plane extending across the fluid channel.