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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10975975 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2019

Valve device

Applicant:

Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;

Inventor:

Shingo Sato, Kariya, JP;

Assignee:

DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;

Attorney:

Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Matthew W Jellett

Assistant Examiner:

Christopher D Ballman

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 27/06 (2006.01); F16K 11/087 (2006.01); F16K 27/04 (2006.01); F16K 11/076 (2006.01); F16K 5/06 (2006.01); F16K 31/53 (2006.01); F01P 7/14 (2006.01); F01P 7/16 (2006.01); F01P 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 11/087 (2013.01); F01P 7/14 (2013.01); F16K 5/0689 (2013.01); F16K 11/076 (2013.01); F16K 11/0873 (2013.01); F16K 27/04 (2013.01); F16K 27/067 (2013.01); F16K 31/535 (2013.01); F01P 3/02 (2013.01); F01P 7/165 (2013.01); F01P 2003/028 (2013.01); F01P 2060/04 (2013.01); F16K 5/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A valve device includes a valve housing, a valve member, a limiter, a contact portion and a shaft. The valve housing has an inside space and a plurality of housing-side openings. The housing-side openings communicate between the inside space and an outside of the valve housing. The valve member is rotatably received in the valve housing and has: a plurality of valve-member-side openings, each of which is configured to communicate with a corresponding one of the housing-side openings; and a communication passage, through which the valve-member-side openings is communicated with each other. The limiter is configured to limit rotation of the valve member. The contact portion is provided in a space of the valve member and is configured to contact the limiter. The shaft rotatably supports the valve member.

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