Fluid handling – Systems – Valves with separate – correlated – actuators
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-25
2011-01-25
Fox, John (Department: 3753)
Fluid handling
Systems
Valves with separate, correlated, actuators
C251S084000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07874315
ABSTRACT:
A multi-channel, multi-phase flow metering valve has multiple pintle valves for metering liquid media through each valve channel. The valve channels have venturi passageways that alone, or in cooperation with the pintles, cause the local pressure of the media to fall below its saturated vapor pressure and allow the liquid media to change phase. The cavitation creates a gaseous region, formed from one or many discrete cavities, in the media within valve channels that effectively isolates the pressures in the upstream and downstream parts of the valve channels to reduce the affects of input pressure fluctuations in the output media. The valve components, particularly the modules defining the venturi passageways, are made of a high-strength material to better resist pitting and other surface erosion from sonic shock associated with the collapse of the gaseous cavities.
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Fox John
Jansen's Aircraft Systems Controls, Inc.
Quarles & Brady LLP
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