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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2010
Sorin C. Bengea, Auburn, MA (US);
G. Clark Fortune, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Thomas J. Stoltz, Allen Park, MI (US);
Benjamin Saltsman, Bloomfield Township, MI (US);
Mihai Dorobantu, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Subbaraya Radhamohan, Austin, TX (US);
Qinghui Yuan, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Sorin C. Bengea, Auburn, MA (US);
G. Clark Fortune, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Thomas J. Stoltz, Allen Park, MI (US);
Benjamin Saltsman, Bloomfield Township, MI (US);
Mihai Dorobantu, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Subbaraya Radhamohan, Austin, TX (US);
Qinghui Yuan, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an exemplary valve having a first valve member that may include at least one orifice, and which is moveable between a first position and a second position, and a second valve member that includes at least one orifice, and which is moveable relative to the first valve member between a first position, in which the at least one orifice of the second valve member is fluidly disconnected from the at least one orifice of the first valve member, and a second position, in which the at least one orifice of the second valve member is fluidly connected to the at least one orifice of the first valve member. The exemplary valve may also include first and second actuators for moving the first and second valve members between their respective first and second positions.