Alfmeier Praezision Ag

Thaddaeus Buratowski

Christoph Kern

Markus Koepfer

A device for controlling a fluid volume in shape changing elements of vehicle seats has a sliding valve connectable with a fluid pressure source and with shape changing elements for filling the shape changing elements with fluid and discharging fluid from the shape changing elements, the sliding valve having a housing provided with connecting openings for a corresponding one of the shape changing elements and a control slider movable in the housing relative to the connecting openings, the control slider having at least one control opening cooperating with the connecting openings and at least one connecting passage which opens in the control opening and is loadable with fluid from the fluid pressure source, the control slider being formed as an axial slider which is guided on the housing, the axial slider having an axial displaceably sliding head provided with the at least one control opening and the at least one connecting passage and a slider rod rigidly connected with the slider head for axial displacement of the slider head, and the connecting openings in a sliding direction of the slider head being arranged in a row at a distance one after the other.

Growing community of inventors

Langenaltheim, Germany

Thaddaeus Buratowski