Cambridge Enterprise Limited

Haldex Brake Products Corporation

Camcon Technology Ltd.

Leon M Henderson

Laurence John Potter

Robert David Prescott

Wladyslaw Wygnanski

David Cebon

Neil E Houghton

Andrews Odhams

Jonathan Miller

An electromagnetic valve comprises a yoke, a magnet having pole pieces defining a gap, a flexure assembly having one end attached to the yoke such that part of the flexure assembly extends into the gap, and a mechanism configured to polarize the magnetizable portion so that the extending part of the flexure assembly is attracted towards a pole piece by a magnetic force, thereby defining a valve state. The flexure assembly has at least one resilient portion and at least one magnetizable portion, wherein the extending part of the flexure assembly is movable between the pole pieces through an intermediate position towards which it is resiliently biased such that a resilient mechanical force is generated by deflecting the resilient portion from an undeflected position. The magnetizable portion and the resilient portion are configured such that the magnetic force defining the valve state is greater than the resilient mechanical force.

Electromagnetic flexure

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leon M Henderson