US 12,140,234 B2
Valve
Helmut Hermann, Drensteinfurt (DE); Stefan Wöstmann, Sassenberg (DE); Stefan Zikeli, Regau (AT); Philipp Zauner, Vöcklabruck (AT); and Michael Longin, Bad Mitterndorf (AT)
Assigned to AUROTEC GMBH, Regau (AT); and NORDSON CORPORATION, Westlake, OH (US)
Appl. No. 17/758,685
Filed by AUROTEC GMBH, Regau (AT); and NORDSON CORPORATION, Westlake, OH (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 21, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/051231
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 12, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/148487, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20152892 (EP), filed on Jan. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0036121 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. F16K 11/078 (2006.01); F16K 11/085 (2006.01); F16K 3/24 (2006.01); F16K 27/04 (2006.01); F16K 27/06 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 11/078 (2013.01) [F16K 11/0853 (2013.01); F16K 11/0856 (2013.01); F16K 3/246 (2013.01); F16K 11/085 (2013.01); F16K 27/04 (2013.01); F16K 27/067 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A valve comprising a valve housing and a shut-off element, wherein the valve housing comprises: a cavity for receiving the shut-off element; at least one inlet opening for a fluid to flow into the cavity and one or more outlet openings for the fluid to flow out of the cavity; wherein the shut-off element comprises a guide body and is arranged linearly movably at least partially in the cavity of the valve housing; and the shut-off element comprises at least one shut-off projection for shutting off at least one of the one or more outlet openings; wherein a gap is formed in the cavity between the guide body of the shut-off element and the valve housing, through which fluid can flow and without using a seal; the gap forms a leakage flow of fluid and wherein the guide body has a groove running in the longitudinal direction of the guide body and/or that the valve housing has a groove running from an outlet opening in the direction of the at least one of the one or more inlet openings.