US 12,345,341 B2
Control valve
Lixin Wang, Zhejiang (CN); Long Lin, Zhejiang (CN); and Yun Wang, Zhejiang (CN)
Assigned to ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS CO., LTD., Zhejiang (CN)
Appl. No. 18/555,555
Filed by ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS CO., LTD., Zhejiang (CN)
PCT Filed Apr. 15, 2022, PCT No. PCT/CN2022/087032
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 16, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/218404, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 20, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202110411383.1 (CN), filed on Apr. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0200673 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. F16K 11/08 (2006.01); F16K 11/085 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 11/0856 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control valve comprising a valve body and a valve core, wherein
the valve body comprises a side wall part, the control valve has a valve cavity, the side wall part is a peripheral wall of the valve cavity or at least part of the peripheral wall of the valve cavity, at least part of the valve core is arranged in the valve cavity and is configured to be driven to rotate, the control valve has at least five channels, one end of each of the at least five channels penetrates through the side wall part, the other end of each of the at least five channels forms a valve port of the control valve, the valve core comprises an inner communication cavity, a plurality of outer communication cavities, a first partition, and a second partition, the plurality of outer communication cavities are distributed on an outer side of the inner communication cavity, the first partition is located between the inner communication cavity and the plurality of outer communication cavities, and the second partition is located between two adjacent outer communication cavities and isolates the plurality of the outer communication cavities;
the first partition has a communication hole, and the inner communication cavity communicates with part of the plurality of outer communication cavities through the communication hole; and
the at least five channels of the control valve comprises a first flow channel and a plurality of second flow channels, the first flow channel is configured to communicate with the plurality of outer communication cavities through the inner communication cavity and the communication hole, and the plurality of second flow channels are configured to communicate with the plurality of outer communication cavities.