Knorr-bremse Systeme Fur Schienenfahrzeuge Gmbh

Steffen Krasselt

Jörg-Johannes Wach

Thomas Garten

Heinz Völbel

Hartmut Mann

A pilot-controlled valve arrangement having at least one valve mechanism mounted in a valve housing for multi-stage switching of a compressed air flow between a feed pressure connection and a working line connection wherein a throttled compressed air flow can be switched in at least one switching stage by a throttle, wherein the pneumatic pilot control has a first control piston mounted in a first control chamber implemented in the valve housing and having a coaxial recess for forming a second control chamber in which a second control piston is mounted, so that an additive control pressure application to the control chambers generates a telescope-like deployment of a ram extending from the second control piston for generating a multi-stage switching stroke for the valve mechanism, in order to implement the throttled compressed air flow in at least one switching stage of the valve mechanism present between the closed and the open valve setting.

Multi-stage switchable pilot-controlled valve arrangement

A valve arrangement controls brake devices and auxiliary devices of a pneumatic brake system of a vehicle, and includes pneumatic control valves which are detachably arranged on at least one common support module containing compressed air channels, for carrying out braking functions or auxiliary braking functions of the brake system. The valve arrangement also includes several adjacently arranged block-shaped support modules having at least the same height and depth measurements and including channel sections forming common longitudinal channels when all of the support modules are adjacently arranged in a row. At least one unit hole receives a control valve embodied as a cartridge valve and arranged on a front side of each support module to enable switching the compressed air flow between inner channels.

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Munich, Germany

Steffen Krasselt