Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Controlling valve operation using pressure
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Application No.: US14976730Application Date: 2015-12-21
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Publication No.: US09924645B2Publication Date: 2018-03-27
- Inventor: Sergio Adolfo Bermudez Rodriguez , Hendrik F. Hamann , Levente Klein , Theodore Gerard van Kessel
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini Bianco PL
- Agent Gary Winer
- Main IPC: B05B1/30
- IPC: B05B1/30 ; A01G25/16

Abstract:
A valve body has a piston that slides within the body through four successive positions. The piston has a head, and an upper and lower skirt, with a port in the upper skirt. In the first position, a bias force urges the piston to the first of four positions, in which the piston port is closed. In a second position, the piston port aligns with a low pressure port in the valve body, when a low pressure supply of water is connected. In a third position, greater pressure again closes the piston port. In a fourth position, at a still greater pressure, the piston port aligns with a high pressure port in the valve body. The bias force or a location of the piston port can be varied for valves along a supply line, whereby varying supply pressure opens different valves, thereby enabling addressing of valves according to supply pressure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170172079A1 CONTROLLING VALVE OPERATION USING PRESSURE Public/Granted day:2017-06-22
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