Valve assembly and fuel metering apparatus

Patent · Tue Nov 29 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6364821

Chute, R

This patent describes an improvement in a liquid flow valving assembly comprising valve body means, valve seating surface means carried by the body means, a purality of passages formed through the body means, each of the passages comprising an upstream inlet end generally surrounded by the seating surface means and a downstream outlet end, a valve member, the valve member comprising a valving surface means for at times sealingly engaging the seating surface means, the valve member being movable in a first direction for causing the valving surface means to sealingly engage the seating surface means to thereby terminate flow of liquid through each of the plurality of passages, the valve member being movable in a second direction opposite to the first direction to thereby open each of the passages to the flow of the liquid therethrough, wherein the first and second directions of movement comprise a single axis of movement, stationary stem-like guide means for guiding the valve member along the single axis of movement during the time that the valve member is moving in the first direction as well as during the time that the valve member is moving in the second direction, wherein the passages are each located in the body means as to be radially outwardly of the stem-like guide means and radially outwardly of the single axis of movement, means for causing the movement of the valve member along the stem-like guide means in the first and second directions, wherein the means for causing the movement of the valve member comprises electrically energizable coil means effective to cyclically produce a flux field for the corresponding cyclic movement of the valve member along the stem-like guide means and in the second direction, and wherein the valve member extends into the region of the coil means and the flux field as to be acted upon thereby.

• Assignee: Colt Industries Inc., New York, NY
• Patent Number(s): US 4787418
• OSTI ID: 6364821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330100* -- Internal Combustion Engines
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
DESIGN
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
FLOW REGULATORS
FLOWMETERS
FLUID FLOW
FUEL SYSTEMS
HEAT ENGINES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
LIQUID FLOW
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
METERING
METERS
OPERATION
SEALS
VALVES