EGR valve device of internal combustion engines of automobiles

Patent · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6095483

Makino, H; Sasaki, A

An EGR valve device is described for internal combustion engines of automobiles, consisting of: a valve body; a valve rod slidably borne on the valve body and having, at one end, a valve member capable of opening and closing an exhaust gas recirculation path and being urged to close the valve; a sector-shaped member rotatably supported on the valve body and operatively coupled to the valve rod and having a gear portion; and a driving motor secured to the valve body in such a way that its rotary member shaft intersects a plane containing the sector-shaped member at right angles, and having a pinion secured to the rotary member shaft and meshed with the gear portion of the sector-shaped member.

• Assignee: Mikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Patent Number(s): US 4690119
• OSTI ID: 6095483
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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