Abstract:
A method for controlling or regulating a vacuum valve that includes: a valve body (1) with a valve opening (2); a closing member (3) that can be moved between an open position and a closed position over a closing path (s) for closing the vacuum valve and that closes the valve opening (2) in the closed position, in which at least one elastic seal (4) is pressed onto a seal face (35); an actuator (5) for moving the closing member (3); and a control device (9) by which the actuator (5) can be triggered; the point (p) of the closing path (s) at which the elastic seal (4) contacts the seal face (35) and/or a velocity (v) of the closing member (3) at that point is used as a controlling parameter for the control device (9).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a valve, in particular a pendulum or slide gate valve, for essentially gastight closing of a flow path (F). The valve includes a valve housing (1; 1a) having a first wall (2) which has a first opening (3) and a first valve seat (4), a valve disk (5) having a closing side (6) with a sealing ring (7) and at least one drive (8). Through drive (8), the valve disk (5) is pivotable or displaceable from an opened position (A) essentially parallel to the first valve seat (4), and the perpendicular distance between the valve disk (5), and the first valve seat (4) can be reduced so that, in the closed position (C), the flow path (F) is closed essentially gastight by an axially sealing contact between the sealing ring (7) and the first valve seat (4). The valve disk (5) includes an outer disk section (9), which is connected to the drive (8) and fixes the sealing ring (7) in the perpendicular direction to the first valve seat (4), and an inner disk section (10) which has an outer circumferential area (11) and which is mounted so as to be movable relative to the outer disk section (9) in a direction (Z) essentially perpendicular to the first valve seat (4). The outer circumferential area (11) is enclosed essentially gastight with an inner seal by the sealing ring (7). Thus, in the closed position (C), a pressure difference at the valve disk (5) acts essentially on the inner disk section (10) so that the inner disk section (10), decoupled from the outer disk section (9), is supported perpendicularly on a section of the valve housing (1), in particular the first valve seat (4) or a lateral groove (27).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a valve, in particular a pendulum or slide gate valve, for essentially gastight closing of a flow path (F). The valve includes a valve housing (1) having a first wall (2) which has a first opening (3) and a first valve seat (4), a valve plate (5) having a closing side (6) with a first sealing ring (7) and at least one drive (8). By action of the drive (8), the valve plate (5) is pivotable or displaceable from an opened position (A) essentially parallel to the first valve seat (4), and the perpendicular distance between the valve plate (5), and the first valve seat (4) can be reduced so that, in the closed position (C), the flow path (F) is closed essentially gastight by an axially sealing contact between the first sealing ring (7) and the first valve seat (4). The valve plate (5) includes support part (9), which is connected to the drive (8) and fixes the first sealing ring (7) in the perpendicular direction to the first valve seat (4), and a sealing part (10) which has an inner circumferential area (11) and which is mounted so as to be movable relative to the support part (9) in a direction (Z) essentially perpendicular to the first valve seat (4). The inner circumferential area (11) encloses the first sealing ring (7) in an essentially gastight way with an inner seal. Thus, in the closed position (C), a pressure difference at the valve plate (5) acts essentially on the sealing part (10) so that sealing part (10), decoupled from the support part (9), is supported perpendicularly on a section of the valve housing (1), in particular the first valve seat (4) or a lateral groove (27).
Abstract:
A flap transfer valve is disclosed for the transfer of semiconductor elements or substrates into a semiconductor or substrate processing process chamber having an elongated first opening, which is surrounded in the form of a frame by a first sealing surface on a first sealing plane, and an elongated valve closure beam, having a second sealing surface which corresponds to the first sealing surface, can be brought into gas-tight contact with it, and is located on a second sealing plane. A support is arranged on the rear face of the valve closure beam, which is arranged such that it can pivot through a limited pivoting angle about a tilting axis. The support together with the valve closure beam can pivot about a pivoting axis, which lies on the first sealing plane, and the tilting axis lies on the second sealing plane.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a valve, in particular a shuffle or sliding valve, for essentially gastight closing of a flow path (F). The valve includes a valve housing (1;1a) having a first wall (2) which has a first opening (3) and a first valve seat (4), a valve disk (5) having a closing side (6) with a sealing ring (7) and at least one drive (8). Through the drive (8), the valve disk (5) is pivotable or displaceable from an opened position (A) essentially parallel to the first valve seat (4), and the perpendicular distance between the valve disk (5), and the first valve seat (4) can be reduced so that, in the closed position (C), the flow path (F) is closed essentially gastight by an axially sealing contact between the sealing ring (7) and the first valve seat (4). The valve disk (5) includes an outer disk section (9), which is connected to the drive (8) and fixes the sealing ring (7) in the perpendicular direction to the first valve seat (4), and an inner disk section (10) which has an outer circumferential area (11) and which is mounted so as to be movable relative to the outer disk section (9) in a direction (Z) essentially perpendicular to the first valve seat (4). The outer circumferential area (11) is enclosed essentially gastight with an inner seal by the sealing ring (7). Thus, in the closed position (C), a pressure difference at the valve disk (5) acts essentially on the inner disk section (10) so that the inner disk section (10), decoupled from the outer disk section (9), is supported perpendicularly on a section of the valve housing (1), in particular the first valve seat (4) or a lateral groove (27).
Abstract:
A vacuum valve comprises a valve housing with a valve opening having a longitudinal axis and a valve seat, a valve plate which is displaceable in a straight line in a displacement direction between an open position in which it releases the valve opening and a closed position in which its contacts the valve seat of the valve housing and closes and seals the valve opening, this valve plate being arranged on at least one valve rod which is displaceable axial to the displacement of the valve plate, a flexible sealing ring which is arranged at a front side of the valve plate or at the valve seat of the valve housing, a sealing surface which is arranged at the valve seat of the valve housing or at the front side of the valve plate and which is contacted by the sealing ring in the closed position of the valve plate, wherein the sealing surface and the sealing ring are arranged in parallel planes which are inclined relative to the displacement direction of the valve plate around an axis extending at right angles to the displacement direction and at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the valve opening, and at least one sliding-spacing part which is arranged at the front side of the valve plate next to the sealing ring or sealing surface or at the valve seat next to the sealing surface or sealing ring and which forms a sliding bearing for the valve plate relative to the valve housing when closing the valve along a final section of the displacement path of the valve plate until the closed position of the valve plate is reached and which keeps the valve plate at a distance from the valve housing in the closed position of the valve plate and accordingly limits the pressing of the sealing ring.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a vacuum valve arranged between two vacuum chambers comprises a valve body with a valve opening, a closure member which closes the valve opening in a closed state of the vacuum valve and which releases the valve opening in an open state of the vacuum valve, wherein, for closing the valve opening by the closure member in the closed state of the vacuum valve, at least one flexible seal contacts a sealing surface of the vacuum valve, which sealing surface is acted upon by a pressing force in the closed state of the vacuum valve, an actuating device for opening and closing the vacuum valve with at least one actuator by which the seal is placed against the sealing surface for closing the vacuum valve, and with a control unit which controls this at least one actuator, pressure measurement values being supplied to this control unit as input signals from pressure sensors which detect the respective pressure in the two vacuum chambers, wherein a differential pressure between the two vacuum chambers is determined by the control unit and the magnitude of the pressing force acting on the seal in the closed state of the vacuum valve is controlled by the control unit depending on the determined differential pressure by controlling the at least one actuator.
Abstract:
A pneumatic sequential control valve for successive aeration and deaeration of two consumers, wherein for purposes of aeration compressed air is initially applied to the first consumer and only subsequently to the second consumer, and for deaeration the compressed air is initially let off from the second consumer and only subsequently from the first consumer, comprises a valve body with connections for a compressed air line and a first consumer and second consumer, wherein a cavity is provided in the valve body, bore holes extend from the connections for the consumers and for the compressed air line to this cavity. A control slide is mounted in this cavity so as to be displaceable, wherein a control space is provided between an end side of the control slide, at which a piston surface is arranged, and the valve body, and this control space communicates, via a choke line, with the bore hole which is connected with the connection for the compressed air line, and the control slide is pretensioned in direction of its first end position by means of a spring arrangement.
Abstract:
A shut-off slide valve for use in pipelines or for closing a container aperture includes a housing, a shut-off member formed of a sealing plate and a counter element spaced from the sealing plate and displaceable in the housing, and an actuation member for displacing the shut-off member in the housing, with the actuation member having a portion extending between the sealing plate and the counter element, and at least one of the sealing plate and the counter element having a collar substantially bridging the space between the sealing plate and the counter element, so that the shut-off member has a shape similar to that of a lid-covered can.
Abstract:
A valve slide includes a slide housing and defines a slide passage opening. The slide passage opening is closable by a closing member which is slidable in the plane of the slide. A sealing surface surrounds the slide passage opening. In the closed position of the closing member, a circumferentially closed sealing member rests against the sealing surface. Imaginary straight generatrices of the sealing surface extend at a right angle to the plane in which the axis of the slide and the sliding direction of the closing member are located. In the direction of the generatrices of the sealing surfaces, the sealing surface has an upper portion, a middle portion and a lower portion. The upper portion and the lower portion each include an obtuse angle with the middle portion. The planes of the upper portion and the lower extend approximately perpendicularly to the sliding direction of the closing member. At least the components of the sealing member which interact with the middle portion of the sealing surface extend along straight lines and parallel to that plane which includes the axis of the slide and the direction of sliding of the closing member.