Butterfly valve with low noise
US6338468B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 18, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jan 15, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 18, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF16K47/00
- WIPO fieldMechanical elements
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A simplified butterfly valve with low noise in which a cavitation to be generated in a narrowed flow region that is delimited by a valve disc in a valve casing is reduced thereby to control the noise, and the valve can be applied even to a flow line for a fluid containing slurry or foreign particles, and can be used for a fluid flow line through a fluid is flows at a high flow rate. In the butterfly valve with low noise, an enlarged section 35 having the enlarged sectional shape symmetrical relative to the center axis is provided in a downstream side immediately behind a valve seat so as to control or suppress the noise and cavitation which occur around the valve disc, an inner diameter Dy of the enlarged section 35 is made more than 1.3 times a inner diameter D of the piping to which the valve is mounted, and the length X1 of the enlarged section 35 is made more than 0.5 times the inner diameter D of the piping.
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