IP Library Granted Patent US 12,366,294
Granted Patent B2
US 12,366,294 · App. 18/199,300 · Granted Jul 22, 2025

Piston for a valve, electromagnetic valve and fuel cell system

Inventors: Dietmar Schulze (Muenzenberg, DE); Christian Jung (Roden, DE)
Assignee: ECO Holding 1 GmbH
F16K1/36F16K1/46F16K31/06
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Patent No.
US 12,366,294
App. No.
18/199,300
Granted
Jul 22, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A piston for a valve configured to control a gaseous medium, the piston including a piston head configured as a closure element and including a seal configured to seal the piston at a valve seat, wherein the seal is arranged at the piston head by a retainer. An electromagnetic valve configured to control a gaseous medium, the electromagnetic valve including an armature; and the piston operatively connected with the armature, wherein the piston head is applicable to the valve seat for closing one or plural pass-through openings of the electromagnetic valve. A fuel cell system including at least one fuel cell stack; a cathode supply; an anode supply; and the electromagnetic pressure regulation valve arranged in the anode supply.

Claims (27)

1. An electromagnetic valve configured to control a gaseous medium, the electromagnetic valve comprising:

an armature; and

a piston operatively connected with the armature, the piston including:

a piston head configured as a closure element and including a seal configured to seal the piston at a valve seat,

wherein the seal is arranged at the piston head by a retainer,

wherein the seal is arranged in a recess of the piston head and includes a circumferential retaining portion at a face of the seal oriented away from the piston head,

wherein the seal includes a center portion at an axial face oriented away from the piston head and arranged within the circumferential retaining portion,

wherein the axial face is configured as a closed substantially circular disk,

wherein the center sealing portion extends axially beyond the circumferential retaining portion, and the piston head, and

wherein the piston head is applicable to the valve seat for closing one or plural pass-through openings of the electromagnetic valve.

2. The electromagnetic valve configured to control the gaseous medium according to claim 1 ,

wherein the retainer is configured as a sleeve including a radially inward oriented circumferential protrusion, and

wherein the sleeve is connected by friction locking with the piston head and the circumferential retaining portion of the seal is retained by the protrusion at the piston head.

3. The electromagnetic valve configured to control the gaseous medium according to claim 2 ,

wherein the center sealing portion axially extends beyond the retaining portion and the circumferential protrusion of the retainer.

4. The electromagnetic valve according to claim 1 , wherein the electromagnetic valve is provided as a pressure regulation valve.

5. A fuel cell system, comprising:

at least one fuel cell stack;

a cathode supply;

an anode supply, and

the electromagnetic pressure regulation valve according to claim 4 arranged in the anode supply.

6. The electromagnetic valve according to claim 1 ,

wherein the gaseous medium is hydrogen, and

wherein a flow of the hydrogen is cut off when the center sealing portion is in contact with the valve seat and the flow of the hydrogen is enabled when the center sealing portion does not contact the valve seat.

7. The electromagnetic valve according to claim 1 ,

wherein the center sealing portion protrudes from the piston head as a straight circular cylinder, and

wherein an outer perimeter of the axial face of the center sealing portion configured as the closed substantially circular disk seals at the valve seat and an inner portion of the closed substantially circular disk does not seal at the valve seat.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2025
From: SCHULZE, DIETMAR; JUNG, CHRISTIAN
To: ECO HOLDING 1 GMBH
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Priority Claims (1)
DE 102022114019.9 · Jun 2, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240384798A1 · Nov 21, 2024
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