Visteon Global Technolgoies, Inc.

Matthew Jon Edwards

James Richard Rauch

Robert J Forbes

A throttle body (61) has a first body part (62) containing an upstream portion of the through-bore (68) and a second body part (64) containing a downstream portion of the through-bore. The two body parts are joined together to register the downstream portion of the through-bore as a continuation of the upstream portion at respective confronting faces of the two body parts, capturing at least one bearing assembly (94) of a throttle mechanism between the confronting faces to thereby journal a throttle shaft (72) on opposite wall portions of the throttle body. The two body parts also contain a by-pass air passage (114). In one form (FIGS. 1 and 2) an idle air control valve (58) associates with the by-pass passage; in another (FIGS. 3 and 4), an electric motor actuator (167) associates with the passage and with the throttle shaft.

Throttle body accomodation of either an idle air control valve or a

A throttle body (11) has a through-bore (18), a circular throttle blade (20) of nominal uniform thickness is disposed within the through-bore and on a cylindrical shaft (22). The through-bore has two generally semi-circular ledges (56, 58) spaced upstream and downstream respectively from an imaginary flat plane that contains the shaft axis, each at a distance substantially equal to one-half the blade thickness. One ledge occupies essentially one semi-circumference of the through-bore for sealing with one of the opposite semi-circular perimeters of the throttle blade when the blade is closed, and the other occupies essentially an opposite semi-circumference of the through-bore for sealing with the other semi-circular perimeter of the blade when the blade is closed. The downstream ledge has an upstream facing surface that is flat and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and the upstream ledge has a downstream facing surface that departs slightly from a planar one that is flat and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis so as to conform the upstream ledge to a like slight departure in shape of the corresponding semi-circular perimeter of the blade due to engine intake vacuum when the blade is closed.

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Matthew Jon Edwards