Manual valve device
View Patent ↗A manual valve device including: a plurality of air bags provided inside a vehicle seat; a valve main body including a plurality of flow passages communicating with the plurality of air bags, respectively; a plurality of valve bodies movable inside the valve main body so as to open and close the plurality of flow passages, respectively; a plurality of valve shafts coupled to the plurality of valve bodies, respectively, and configured to be manually operated to move the plurality of valve bodies in a stroke; and an operation lever configured to press any one of the plurality of valve shafts or any combination of the plurality of valve shafts in an axial direction, in which the operation lever includes an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust an air flow rate per unit time flowing in the plurality of flow passages by changing a stroke amount in the axial direction.
1. A manual valve device comprising:
a plurality of air bags provided inside a vehicle seat;
a valve main body including a plurality of flow passages, the plurality of flow passages communicating with the plurality of air bags, respectively, so as to allow air to flow;
a plurality of valve bodies movable inside the valve main body so as to open and close the plurality of flow passages, respectively;
a plurality of valve shafts coupled to the plurality of valve bodies, respectively, and configured to be manually operated from an outside of the valve main body to move the plurality of valve bodies in a stroke; and
an operation lever configured to press any one of the plurality of valve shafts or any combination of the plurality of valve shafts in an axial direction by being tilted with respect to the valve main body,
wherein the operation lever includes an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust an air flow rate per unit time flowing in the plurality of flow passages by changing a stroke amount in the axial direction, the stroke amount being an amount in which any one of the plurality of valve shafts or any combination of the plurality of valve shafts is pressed so as to move in the stroke by tilting of the operation lever.
2. The manual valve device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the valve main body includes:
a flat plate-shaped base body having a groove that forms the plurality of flow passages; and
a cover fixed so as to close an opening side of the groove of the base body,
wherein the operation lever is provided to the base body to be tiltable about a rotation axis, the rotation axis extending in parallel to an in-plane direction of the base body and passing through the operation lever, and
wherein the adjustment mechanism is configured such that, when viewed from an out-of-plane direction of the base body, a distance from the rotation axis to an abutment point of the operation lever on the valve shaft is changed.
3. The manual valve device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the rotation axis has a first rotation axis and a second rotation axis orthogonal to the first rotation axis, and
wherein, when viewed from the out-of-plane direction of the base body, a distance from the first rotation axis to the abutment point of the operation lever on the valve shaft is longer than a distance from the second rotation axis to the abutment point of the operation lever on the valve shaft.
4. The manual valve device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the operation lever interlockingly operates a switch configured to be operated to be in ON-state and OFF-state so as to actuate a pump for supplying air to the plurality of air bags.
5. The manual valve device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of air bags function as lumbar supports.