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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.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2003
George Edmond, Norfolk, GB;
Steven Kenchington, Norfolk, GB;
Simon Paul Kuderovitch, Norfolk, GB;
Lotus Cars Limited, Norfolk, GB;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a control valve for controlling flow of hydraulic fluid. The control valve comprises: a valve housing (); a sleeve () slidable in a valve chamber in the valve housing (); a first fluid conduit () for connecting the valve chamber to a source of pressurised hydraulic fluid; a second fluid conduit () for connecting the valve chamber to a fluid return for returning hydraulic fluid to a reservoir; and a third fluid conduit () for connecting the valve chamber to deliver hydraulic fluid to and receive hydraulic fluid from apparatus which uses the hydraulic fluid flow controlled by the control valve. The sleeve () is a tubular sleeve having, a tubular passage therethrough. The valve housing has a pair of spaced apart valve seat surfaces (), a first valve seat surface () which is engageable by a first end of the tubular sleeve () and a second valve seat surface () which is engageable by a second end of the tubular sleeve (). The third fluid conduit () opens on to the valve chamber by way of a port which is surrounded by the first valve seat surface ().
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