Slide-Gate Type Multi-Port Switching Valve

T. Kobayashi, T. Akagi, S. Dohta, F. Cho,  T. Shinohara, and M. Yokota

To address this requirement what making a compact and economical control valve highly desirable, this study proposes and tests a multi-port switching valve based on a slide-gate mechanism.This valve is designed to enable the supply or exhaust of multiple actuators simultaneously, thereby reducing the number of valves required to drive a complex pneumatic actuator with multiple chambers.

Special Issue on “Humancentric Robotic Technology and its Applications for Coexistence with Humans”

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Vol.35

No.3