Balanced Valve Control Assembly With Compressed Housing Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing valve control designs for fluid flow management in industrial applications require complex and costly construction to withstand high pressures and caustic environments, leading to increased manufacturing and assembly time, and often involve numerous fasteners that complicate the assembly process.
Innovation Solution
A valve control design that utilizes a support structure to compress parts of the valve housing, reducing the need for fasteners and incorporating a pressure sensing and regulating system with balanced or seat-and-nozzle valves to manage fluid flow, simplifying assembly and reducing manufacturing costs while ensuring robust operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional valve control designs are used to withstand high pressures and caustic environments, then reliability is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase due to complex construction and numerous fasteners
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple fastening functions into a single support structure that compresses the valve housing parts together. Instead of using numerous separate fasteners, the support structure integrates the compression and securing functions, reducing device complexity while maintaining the reliability needed for high-pressure applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides structural support, compresses the valve housing parts to ensure sealing, and eliminates the need for numerous separate fasteners. This multi-functionality reduces overall device complexity while maintaining robust operation in high-pressure and caustic environments.
2Strength
If traditional valve control designs with numerous fasteners are used, then structural integrity is improved, but assembly time and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure merges multiple fastening operations into a single assembly step. By compressing the valve housing parts together through the support structure, the design eliminates the need to install and secure numerous separate fasteners, significantly reducing assembly time while maintaining structural integrity for high-pressure applications.
3Stress or pressure
If complex construction with numerous fasteners is used, then pressure containment is improved, but manufacturing cost and assembly complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure combines the pressure containment function with the structural support function. By designing the support structure to compress the valve housing parts together, it ensures pressure containment while eliminating the need for numerous separate fasteners, thereby reducing manufacturing cost and assembly complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure serves as both a structural support element and a pressure containment mechanism. Its compression action on the valve housing parts ensures pressure containment while its integrated design eliminates the need for multiple separate fastening components, simplifying manufacturing and assembly.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The design significantly reduces the number of fasteners required, simplifies assembly, and enhances the reliability and accuracy of valve operation, while maintaining robustness for high-pressure applications, thereby lowering labor and manufacturing costs.
Implementation Method 1
These embodiments may leverage a support structure that compresses or 'squeezes' together parts of a valve housing
Data Source
AI summary
A valve control is configured for use with control valves and other flow controls. The valve control leverages a simplified structure to avoid problems with manufacture and reduce costs. This structure includes a support unit that compresses parts of a valve housing together. Inside of the valve housing, the structure incorporates diaphragms that cause a pair of balanced valves to move in response to changes in pressure of fluid in a conduit. For industrial application, the valve control finds use to maintain pressure of natural gas in pipelines downstream from a control valve.