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Slide control valve

US4596274A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 22, 1985
Grant dateJun 24, 1986
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 22, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/87233
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A hydraulic control valve whose spool slides within a stator in which gaskets are provided to insure the watertightness of the sliding motion. Due to the placement of various bores, the ports may be crossed by the gaskets without damage because the gaskets are either under balanced pressure upon crossing the ports, or under the prevailing pressure of the port which is being crossed. A watertight hydraulic slide control valve having a stator with distribution ports is positioned along the wall of a longitudinal bore. A grooved slide spool having a plurality of gaskets is positioned to slide inside the bore of the stator. When any one of the plurality of gaskets crosses a distribution port during a switching operation, the pressure acting on the gasket within the bore is less than or equal to the pressure applied to the gasket from the distribution port when the gasket passes across the distribution port.

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