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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2002
Michael Runft, Rudersberg, DE;
Ralph Krause, Waiblingen, DE;
Uwe Knauss, Schwaebisch Gmuend, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A flap valve for controlling a gas flow has an elastically deformable valve tube that conveys the gas flow and having a valve flap that is disposed in the valve tube for movement between an open position and a closed position by a flap shaft that can be driven in order to adjust the valve flap and which is disposed at an acute angle in relation to the valve tube axis, to which shaft the valve flap is fastened so that in the closed position of the valve flap, the flap normal encloses an acute angle with the valve tube axis, in order to assure only a slight amount of leakage in the closed position of the valve flap and a low opening torque, the outer contour of the valve flap is approximately oval in shape. Preferably, the outer contour is embodied as an ellipse.