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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2006
Serhiy Fedorovich Petrenko, Kiev, UA;
Serhiy Fedorovich Petrenko, Kiev, UA;
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A motorized valve has a housing having an inlet and an outlet to be connected to a pipeline, a saddle connected with the housing, a turn plug having a rod, the turn plug cooperating with the saddle, and a drive for turning the valve body and formed as a piezoelectric drive, the piezoelectric drive including a piezoelectric generator of radially directed standing acoustic waves, which is connected with the housing and is connectable with a pulse current source, and a rotor operatively connected with the piezoelectric generator and kinematically connected with the rod of the turn plug so as to turn the turn plug when the rotor is actuated by the piezoelectric generator.