Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Walter Alfmeier Gmbh & Co.

Alfmeier Prazision Ag Baugruppen

Gerold Dierks

Holger Seel

Rudolf Andres

Dieter Simon

Dietmar Zwolfer

Klaus-Jurgen Heimbrodt

Michael Dimitrov

Klaus Engelhardt

Hermann Moller

A multiport valve having a valve body and a controllable opening in a surface is provided. An activation element is also disclosed which is controllably attached to a sealing element in communication with the surface. An elastomer membrane is provided about the activation element and in contact with the sealing element. The activation element selectively elevates the sealing element from a valve seat. Additional multiport valve embodiments are also disclosed including a toggle to regulate multiple valve seats.

Multiport valve

A regulator with a hysteresis-affected characteristic curve has a manually operable actuating element for presetting a desired control variable, an axially displaceable control slide for adjusting the preset control variable and a control incline which is coupled to the actuating element. The control incline converts, by means of a rising control face, the adjustment movement of the actuating element into a axial displacement of the control slide. For the purpose of compensating the hysteresis when adjusting a control a variable such that the same control variable is brought about by rotating the actuating element to the left or to the right into the same setting, the control incline bears a toothing along its control face. Each tooth has, in two planes which extend along the displacement direction of the control face and are perpendicular to one another, a sawtooth-like contour with in each case a rising edge for running up the control slide and a falling edge which follows in the displacement direction. Each tooth contour is associated with one of the two displacement directions. Each tooth contour is associated with one of the two displacement direction of the control incline and deflects the control slide in the axial direction or transversely thereto.

Regulator with hysteresis-affected characteristic curve

A pressure regulator whose initial pressure can be set by manually setting the initial stress of a control spring has a double-seated valve with an inner and outer valve seat and a valve closing element. The valve closing element divides a supply pressure chamber from a control pressure chamber and the latter from a pressure-relief chamber. The inner valve seat is arranged on a control piston which is loaded by the control spring. In order to set a higher initial pressure, the initial stress of the control spring is increased, in order to reduce pressure, the initial stress of the spring is diminished. During this process, the outer or inner valve seat lifts off temporarily from the valve closing element until equilibrium is reestablished by a corresponding pressure chamber and the double-seated valve closes. In order to compensate the hysteresis occurring here, a lifting device is provided which, when the initial stress of the control spring is reduced, briefly lifts off the inner valve seat from the valve closing element and then becomes inactive again. The superproportional pressure drop associated with this in the control pressure chamber has the effect that the equilibrium of forces for closing the double-seated valve is always produced after the outer valve seat is opened by the pressure increase.

Pressure regulation

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Treuchtlingen, Germany

Gerold Dierks