Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low-pressure and low-energy self-regulating valve
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Application No.: US16376574Application Date: 2019-04-05
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Publication No.: US10761545B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Ruo-Qian Wang , Amos G. Winter , Abhijit Bhaskar Joshi , Pawel Jerzy Zimoch
- Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge IN Jalgaon
- Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd
- Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge IN Jalgaon
- Agency: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
- Main IPC: F16K31/126
- IPC: F16K31/126 ; G05D7/01 ; A01G25/02 ; F16L55/05 ; F16L55/055

Abstract:
A passive, self-regulating valve includes a static pressure chamber and an elastically collapsible tube supported within the static pressure chamber. The elastically collapsible tube is defined by a geometry that determines an activation pressure of the valve. The passive, self-regulating valve also includes a flow restrictor in fluid communication with the elastically collapsible tube inside the static pressure chamber, as well as piping connecting a source of pressurized liquid both to the flow restrictor and to an opening into the static pressure chamber. The piping enables the flow restrictor to control flow rate of the pressurized liquid through the valve independent of the activation pressure of the valve. In a preferred embodiment, the flow restrictor is a needle valve.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190332128A1 Low-Pressure And Low-Energy Self-Regulating Valve Public/Granted day:2019-10-31
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