US 11,982,364 B2
Valve for a fluid system and fluid system for a vehicle
Frank Bewermeyer, Bueren (DE); Horst Feldkamp, Lippstadt (DE); Dominik Niess, Lippstadt (DE); Sebastian Tiemeyer, Dortmund (DE); and Benjamin Grothe, Wickede (DE)
Assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt (DE)
Filed by Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt (DE)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/732,229.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 110 942.6 (DE), filed on Apr. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0349484 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. F16K 11/08 (2006.01); F16K 11/085 (2006.01); F16K 27/06 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 11/0856 (2013.01) [F16K 27/065 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A valve for a fluid system of a vehicle, the valve comprising:
a valve housing having a plurality of valve housing openings;
a valve body arranged in the valve housing so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation and having at least one flow-conducting connecting channel for the flow-conducting connection of at least two valve housing openings of the plurality of valve housing openings;
a valve seal arranged between the valve housing and the valve body and having valve seal openings corresponding to the valve housing openings;
a valve drive for the automatic rotation of the valve body about the axis of rotation; and
a plurality of connecting pieces corresponding to the valve housing openings for the flow-conducting connection of the valve to the fluid system,
wherein at least one of the connecting pieces is designed and arranged to connect to a hose of the fluid system and to a pump of the fluid system, individually, such that either the hose or the pump is optionally directly connected in a flow conducting manner to the valve via the at least one of the connecting pieces,
wherein the at least one of the connecting pieces has a circular flow passage area in cross section at a free end and the valve housing opening corresponding to the at least one of the connecting pieces and has a substantially rectangular cross section, wherein the corresponding valve housing opening is larger than the flow passage area at the free end of the at least one of the connecting pieces, and wherein the flow passage area of the at least one of the connecting pieces widens in a diffuser-like manner from the free end to the corresponding valve housing opening and merges in a stepless manner into the corresponding valve housing opening.