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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2015
Idex Health & Science Llc, Northbrook, IL (US);
Daniel M. Hartmann, Middleboro, MA (US);
Darren Lewis, Oak Harbor, WA (US);
Jon Nichols, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Jim Smyth, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
IDEX Health & Science LLC, Northbrook, IL (US);
Abstract
A rotary shear valve having a rotor device and a stator device both with planar faces. The stator face includes a central port located at a common rotational axis, a second port radially spaced a radius Rfrom the central port, and a third port spaced at radius R. The second and third ports are in general linear alignment with the central port. The rotor face includes a first rotor groove extending radially outward from the common rotational axis to a position at radius Rfrom the central port. The rotor device is rotatably mounted to the stator device for rotation thereof about the axis, providing fluid-tight, selective relative rotation therebetween between two or more discrete rotor positions. When in a discrete first rotor position, the first rotor groove is oriented in radial alignment with, and fluidly connects, the central port and the second port with the third port.