IP Library Granted Patent US 10,946,314
Granted Patent B2
US 10,946,314 · App. 16/787,032 · Granted Mar 16, 2021

Pressure control device

Inventors: Masaru Miyagi (Kanagawa, JP); Kenichi Ozawa (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
B01D29/05B01D29/58B01D2201/30B01D2201/34F01M1/10F01M1/16F01M2001/1007F16K11/07
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Patent No.
US 10,946,314
App. No.
16/787,032
Granted
Mar 16, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pressure control device is provided and includes a body which has a groove-shaped flow path including a groove part and a widened part connected to the groove part and having a width larger than a width of the groove part, and a filter unit which captures foreign matters mixed in a fluid which passes through the groove-shaped flow path. The filter unit includes a frame body being in a cylindrical shape and including a through hole part which penetrates in a direction along a central axis, and at least one filter member being in a planar plate shape disposed to intercept the through hole part and supported inside the frame body, in which the filter unit is accommodated in the widened part so that a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the frame body is along a depth direction of the widened part.

Claims (42)

1. A pressure control device comprising:

an oil passage body that includes therein an oil passage through which oil flows;

a spool valve that is attached to the oil passage body;

a body that is at least one of a lower body and an upper body that constructs the oil passage body, and the body comprises a groove-shaped flow path, and the groove-shaped flow path comprising:

a groove part; and

a widened part, connected to the groove part and having a width larger than a width of the groove part;

a separate plate that covers the groove-shaped flow path; and

a filter unit which captures foreign matters mixed in a fluid which passes through the groove-shaped flow path, wherein the filter unit comprises:

a frame body, being in a cylindrical shape and comprising a through hole part which penetrates in a direction along a central axis of the frame body; and

at least one filter member, being in a planar plate shape, and being disposed to intercept the through hole part and supported inside the frame body,

wherein an upper part of the frame body faces a lower surface of the separate plate,

wherein the filter unit is accommodated in the widened part so that a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the frame body is along a depth direction of the widened part.

2. The pressure control device according to claim 1 , wherein the frame body comprises:

a storage part which is provided on a bottom surface side of the groove-shaped flow path and which stores the foreign matters that have been captured.

3. The pressure control device according to claim 2 , wherein

the storage part is disposed further to an upstream side of the groove-shaped flow path than the filter member.

4. The pressure control device according to claim 3 , wherein

the storage part penetrates the frame body in a thickness direction.

5. The pressure control device according to claim 3 , wherein

the storage part is open at an end part of the frame body on the upstream side of the groove-shaped flow path.

6. The pressure control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the filter member is inclined with respect to the central axis of the frame body.

7. The pressure control device according to claim 6 , wherein

the filter member is inclined with respect to the central axis of the frame body with a first end part on a bottom surface side of the widened part located on a downstream side of the groove-shaped flow path and with a second end part on a side opposite to the first end part across the central axis of the frame body located on an upstream side of the groove-shaped flow path.

8. The pressure control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the at least one filter member comprises a plurality of the filter members disposed along the central axis of the frame body.

9. The pressure control device according to claim 8 , wherein

a size of small holes formed in the filter member disposed on an upstream side of the groove-shaped flow path is larger than a size of small holes formed in the filter member disposed on a downstream side of the groove-shaped flow path.

10. The pressure control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the filter unit further comprises a seal member in a ring shape disposed along an outer-side circumferential edge part of the frame body when viewed from the through hole part.

11. The pressure control device according to claim 10 , wherein the frame body comprises:

a fixing part which is disposed along the outer-side circumferential edge part when viewed from the through hole part and which fixes the seal member.

12. The pressure control device according to claim 11 , wherein the frame body comprises:

a first part whose outer side shape in a cross section along the central axis and viewed from the central axis has a first contour;

a second part whose outer side shape in a cross section along the central axis and viewed from the central axis has a second contour smaller than the first contour; and

a step part which is located at a boundary part between the first part and the second part and which functions as the fixing part.

13. The pressure control device according to claim 12 , wherein

the frame body is disposed so that the first part is located on a downstream side of the groove-shaped flow path and the second part is located on an upstream side of the groove-shaped flow path.

14. The pressure control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the filter unit is an insert-molded product of the frame body and the filter member.

15. The pressure control device according to claim 1 , wherein the widened part comprises:

a receiving part which is formed to have a depth larger than a depth of the groove part and which a part of the filter unit enters.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2020
From: MIYAGI, MASARU; OZAWA, KENICHI
To: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051790/0437 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-035170 · Feb 28, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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