US 12,422,050 B2
Multi-way valve
Michael S. Brock, Connersville, IN (US); and J Bradley Groom, Connersville, IN (US)
Assigned to Stant USA Corp., Connersville, IN (US)
Filed by Stant USA Corp., Connersville, IN (US)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/482,205.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/414,205, filed on Oct. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0117888 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. F16K 11/22 (2006.01); F16K 11/24 (2006.01); F01P 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 11/22 (2013.01) [F16K 11/24 (2013.01); F01P 2007/146 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-way valve comprising
a valve housing including a lower housing body coupled to a manifold of thermal fluid circuits, an upper housing body coupled to the lower housing body and shaped to define a first valve cavity and a second valve cavity in fluid communication with the first valve cavity through the lower housing body, and a housing cover coupled to the upper housing body to close top openings of the first and second valve cavities, the lower housing body formed to include a plurality of lower housing passageways, and the first and second valve cavities of the upper housing body are in fluid communication with the plurality of lower housing passageways, and
a valve flow controller including a first valve rotor arranged in the first valve cavity of the upper housing body and configured to rotate relative to the upper housing body about a first rotor axis and a second valve rotor arranged in the second valve cavity of the upper housing body and configured to rotate relative to the upper housing body about a second rotor axis that is parallel to the first rotor axis, the first and second valve rotors cooperate to define a plurality of flow paths when the first and second valves are rotated about the respective rotor axes to a plurality of different predetermined positions to control a flow of fluid through the upper housing body and the lower housing body,
wherein the first valve rotor is formed to include a plurality of first rotor through holes that extend axially through the first valve rotor relative to the first rotor axis so that the flow of fluid is able to flow axially through the first valve rotor parallel to the first rotor axis.