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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1999
Susumu Watanabe, Hiratsuka, JP;
Nichigi Engineering Co., Ltd., Fujisawa, JP;
Abstract
A fluid path opening/closing valve comprises a plate-like valve plug and a rack which is fixed to a piston of an emergency shut-down air cylinder. The rack meshes with a pinion which rotates by a reversible motor with a clutch. If a seismic detecting valve detects earthquake which has over predetermined seismic intensity and opens, compressed air is sent from an air tank via the opened seismic detecting valve to a switching cylinder which disconnects the clutch. At the same time, compressed air is sent from the air tank to the emergency shut-down air cylinder via a delay valve to lower the piston with the fluid-path opening/closing valve which closes the fluid path.