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Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2022
Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Joohang Kang, Seoul, KR;

Youngchan Ahn, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 31/524 (2006.01); F16K 31/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 31/52425 (2013.01); F16K 31/047 (2013.01);
Abstract

A valve actuator includes a housing, a motor disposed on the housing, a driving gear coupled to a motor shaft of the motor, a transmission gear which is in external contact with the driving gear and rotates according to a predetermined gear ratio when the driving gear rotates, an output shaft including a main body and a plurality of protrusions radially protruding from the main body and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, an output gear coupled to the output shaft and in external contact with the transmission gear, a stopper disposed in the housing and limiting a rotation radius of the output gear, and an elastic member disposed between a lower portion of the plurality of protrusions and a lower plate of the housing.


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