Festo Ag & Co. Kg

Festo Se &co. Kg

Ute Casimir

Charles E Bowers

Ulrich Hirling

Daniel Niefer

A fluid control system for supplying fluid to a fluid consumer, having a valve module including a channel body to which a fluid switching valve, a fluid pressure regulator and a vacuum switching valve are attached, the channel body having a first fluid channel extending from a fluid input port to an input port of the fluid pressure regulator and having a second fluid channel extending from an output port of the fluid pressure regulator to an input port of the fluid switching valve, and having a third fluid channel extending from an output port of the fluid switching valve to a fluid consumer port, and having a first vacuum channel extending from a vacuum input port to an input port of the vacuum switching valve, and having a second vacuum channel extending from an output port of the vacuum switching valve to the fluid consumer port.

Fluid control system

A pneumatic drive system () in which the movement of an output drive unit () of a pneumatic drive () is controlled by a control valve (and) which is connected with the working chambers (and) of the pneumatic drive (). The control valve (and) comprises least one air economy setting () setting a choke cross section and a high power setting () defining a flow cross section larger than it. An actuator serves to ensure that the control valve is switched over, in a fashion dependent on the air pressure obtaining in the at least one working chamber (and) from the normally assumed air economy setting () into the high power setting (), when the output drive unit () meets with an increased resistance to motion.

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Esslingen, Germany

Ute Casimir