Valve arrangement for controlling brake devices and auxiliary devices of a pneumatic brake system of a vehicle

US8844573B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FÜR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Hartmut Mann · Bergkirchen, DE
• Steffen Krasselt · Birkenfeld, DE
• Jörg-Johannes Wach · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 23, 2009
• Grant date: Sep 30, 2014
• Expiry date: Aug 8, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/87885
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A valve arrangement controls brake devices and auxiliary devices of a pneumatic brake system of a vehicle, and includes pneumatic control valves which are detachably arranged on at least one common support module containing compressed air channels, for carrying out braking functions or auxiliary braking functions of the brake system. The valve arrangement also includes several adjacently arranged block-shaped support modules having at least the same height and depth measurements and including channel sections forming common longitudinal channels when all of the support modules are adjacently arranged in a row. At least one unit hole receives a control valve embodied as a cartridge valve and arranged on a front side of each support module to enable switching the compressed air flow between inner channels.