Fujikin Inc.

Kabushiki Kaisha Fujikin

Shunji Obara

Keigo Kobayashi

Michio Yamaji

Tadayuki Yakushijin

Keisuke Ishibashi

Yoshinori Shimomura

Masahiko Sogao

Provided is a small-sized controller capable of precisely controlling a flow rate of a high-pressure fluid. Between a working shaft of a drive device and a valve stem, a power transmission device is disposed to amplify a force acting on the working shaft and transmit the resultant force to the valve stem. A diaphragm as a valve element is made of metal and is deformable to: a state where a fluid passage is fully closed; a state where the fluid passage is fully open; or a state where the fluid passage is partially open. When the fluid passage is partially open, on the basis of the flow rate of a fluid flowing through fluid passages, the drive device finely adjusts the position of the working shaft such that the flow rate is constant.

Controller

A durable diaphragm valve has a single-layer structure consisting of rubber materials. The single-layer structure has a membrane part deforming and moving up and down with opening and closing of a flow channel and a flange part which is provided around said membrane part and sandwiched between a valve body and a bonnet. The flange part has an annular ridge consisting of an upper ridge protruding upward and a lower ridge protruding downward from a position corresponding to said upper ridge. The upper ridge has an inner upper ridge and an outer upper ridge with its protruding height being lower than the inner upper ridge, which are consecutively formed in a staircase pattern.

Diaphragm with flange and annular ridge and diaphragm valve using the same

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Osaka, Japan

Shunji Obara