US 12,169,026 B2
Valve control device for a coolant circuit of a motor vehicle
Sven Dehrmann, Wörth (DE)
Assigned to ECO Holding 1 GmbH, (DE)
Filed by ECO Holding 1 GmbH, Marktheidenfeld (DE)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/503,975.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 127 460.2 (DE), filed on Oct. 19, 2020; and application No. 10 2021 116 913.5 (DE), filed on Jun. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0120353 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. F16K 11/16 (2006.01); F16K 31/528 (2006.01); F16K 31/53 (2006.01); F16K 35/14 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 11/165 (2013.01) [F16K 31/5284 (2013.01); F16K 31/53 (2013.01); F16K 35/14 (2013.01); Y10T 137/87056 (2015.04)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Valve control device (100) for a coolant circuit of a motor vehicle, said valve control device (100) having:
a first valve (120) having an assigned first functional element (125) comprising a first engagement unit (122),
a second valve (150) having an assigned second functional element (155) comprising a second engagement unit (152),
wherein the first valve (120) and the second valve (150) in terms of a switch position thereof are configured so as to be variable by rotating the respective assigned functional element (125, 155),
a locking mechanism (200) comprising an entrainment installation (210), wherein the locking mechanism (200) is configured so as to be able to be driven by means of a drive (300),
wherein the locking mechanism (200) in a rotating movement, by means of the entrainment installation (210) engaging in the first engagement unit (122), is configured for transferring the first functional element (125) from a first switch position to a second switch position, and/or, by means of the entrainment installation (210) engaging in the second engagement unit (152), is configured for transferring the second functional element (155) from a first switch position to a second switch position, and
wherein the first engagement unit (122) of the first functional element (125) comprises a first number of engagement contours (123), and the second engagement unit (152) of the second functional element (125) comprises a second number of engagement contours (153), wherein the first number differs from the second number.