Flow controller

US9651953B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• IMI HYDRONIC ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL SA · CH

Inventors

• Fritz Essfeld · Warstein, DE
• Bernhard Henke · Brilon, DE
• Carina Schmidt · Essen, DE
• John M. Trantham · Hurst, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 2015
• Grant date: May 16, 2017
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/7788
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A flow controller for a heating system with a housing, which has an inlet connection for a heating medium, an outlet connection for the heating medium, and a preadjustment connection, with a rate regulating module, and with a handle, which acts together with a movably disposed structural element of the rate regulating module to preadjust the flow. To change the preadjustment of the flow via the handle, an effective cross section of a first flow-through opening for the heating medium can be adjusted and to regulate the preadjusted flow of the heating medium, a sleeve of the rate regulating module and a cup of the rate regulating module are disposed axially movable to one another. The inflow to the rate regulating module occurs on an outer side via the first flow-through opening which is provided on the sleeve and upstream of the second flow-through opening.