An embodiment of a fluid valve includes a receptacle, cavity, mixer, and valve assembly. The receptacle has a protrusion configured to engage a groove of a valve-opening-and-fluid-dispensing device, and the cavity has a front end in communication with the receptacle and has a rear end. The mixer has hot and cold input ports and has an output port in communication with the rear end of the cavity. And the valve assembly is disposed in the cavity, configured to allow fluid to flow from the output port through the cavity in response to a valve-opening-and-fluid-dispensing device being disposed in the receptacle, and configured to prohibit fluid from flowing from the output port through the cavity in response to the valve-opening-and-fluid-dispensing device being absent from the receptacle. The valve may include a pressure-relief assembly and/or a unidirectional-valve assembly configured to relieve back pressure during insertion of the valve-opening-and-fluid-dispensing device into the receptacle.

A valve assembly (300) comprising a valve body (302) and a mono-material plunger (304). The valve body (302 has a primary opening (314) and a secondary opening (315) that are axially spaced apart. The plunger (304) comprises a primary seal 5 portion (316) and a secondary seal portion (317). The plunger (304) comprises the following operational positions with respect to the valve body: a transit seal position in which the primary seal portion (316) of the plunger (304) is in contact with the valve body (302) in order to occlude the primary opening (314); and a fluid flow position in which the plunger (304) is maintained in the fluid flow position by an external force 10 and a force caused by a pressure differential across the valve assembly (300).

A tire inflation assembly includes an air chuck that has a pair of outlets that has a direction of air flow which is oriented at a unique direction with respect to each other. In this way the air chuck can be attached to the valve stem at a variety of orientations to enhance employing the air chuck to inflate the tire. The air chuck includes a locking mechanism which engages the valve stem for retaining the air chuck on the valve stem. The locking mechanism is urgeable to disengage the valve stem to remove the air chuck from the valve stem. A pressure gauge is integrated into the air chuck to display the air pressure in the tire when either of the outlets is attached to the valve stem.

An electro-magnetic thermal control valve (EMTCV) is configured to selectably direct and control an amount of coolant fluid to a cooler in a coolant circulation system. The EMTCV includes a valve housing defining a main chamber, an electromagnet disposed in the valve housing, and a movable sleeve disposed within the main chamber. The movable sleeve is fixedly attached to a permanent magnet adjacent to the electromagnet. When the electromagnet is energized by a current supplied by a valve control system, the electromagnet exerts a force on the permanent magnet, moving the movable sleeve is from an idle position to plurality of intermediate positions or an actuated position.

A regulator arrangement for an inflatable includes a regulator housing comprising a bore, the bore comprising a longitudinal axis, a piston disposed in the bore and configured to translate, with respect to the regulator housing, along the longitudinal axis, an adjuster plug disposed in the bore and axially adjacent the piston, an adjuster plug stop disposed at least partially within the bore, and a spring member disposed between the adjuster plug and the piston. The adjuster plug comprises a tapered head and a shaft portion extending from the tapered head. The adjuster plug stop comprises a tapered surface configured to contact the tapered head.

Disclosed is a capacity control valve includes a valve housing. A main valve including a valve body is driven by a solenoid, and a main valve seat which is between a discharge port and a control port and with which the valve body can contact, a pressure sensitive valve member forms a pressure sensitive valve, together with a pressure sensitive body disposed in a pressure sensitive chamber. The control port and a suction port communicate with each other through an intermediate communication passage by opening and closing of the pressure sensitive valve. The pressure sensitive valve member has a through-hole communicating with the intermediate communication passage, and has an opening and closing member attached thereto such that the opening and closing member is restricted in movement with respect to the valve housing by restriction device and slides relative to the pressure sensitive valve member to open and close the through-hole.

An adjustable compact check valve for a pneumatic self-inflating mattress. The compact check valve includes a preload selector which is adjustable to user selected settings, each of which will vary the load on a preload compression spring, to thereby vary the pressure at which the check valve opens. Such adjustment allows a user to vary the firmness of a self-inflating mattress to which the compact check valve is affixed. The compact check valve also has a fully closed position, where air cannot enter or leave the self-inflating mattress, and a fully open position, where air can enter the self-inflating mattress to allow it to fully inflate, or where a user can compress the mattress for storage, by expelling air from the self-inflating mattress. Once air has been expelled from the mattress, the compact check valve may be closed, to prevent inflation of the mattress.

A water delivery valve assembly includes a cold water inlet and a hot water inlet and a mixed water outlet, a mixer valve assembly configured to receive water from the hot and cold water inlets in a ratio determined by a desired temperature input and to mix the hot and cold water in a mixing chamber, and a flow control valve assembly sharing a common housing with the mixer valve assembly and arranged to receive water from the mixing chamber and provide water at the desired temperature to the mixed water outlet at desired time period. The mixer valve assembly includes drive means to control the ratio, and the flow control valve includes drive means to control the flow, and the drive means of the mixer valve assembly and of the flow control valve assembly are also provided in the common housing.

The present disclosure relates to an adjustable bleed valve assembly for a shock absorber. The bleed valve assembly includes: a first adjustable bleed valve, and a second adjustable bleed valve arranged in series with the first adjustable bleed valve, wherein the first adjustable bleed valve and the second adjustable bleed valve are each pressure independently adjustable between a first open state and a second open state, wherein each adjustable bleed valve is adapted to throttle a damping fluid in the piston rod more in the second open state than in the first open state, wherein the first adjustable bleed valve and the second adjustable bleed valve are each adjustable between the first open state and the second open state independently from one another. An adjustment device and a method for adjusting the bleed valve assembly is also provided.

A fluid control system is provided for controlling flow of a process fluid through a pipeline. In one example, the pipeline can include a valve that defines an upstream and a downstream portion of the pipeline. The system can include one or more instruments configured to control operation of the valve. In one example, the system can include a compressor and an expander configured to selectively receive supply gas from the upstream portion of the pipeline via a supply line. In one example, supply gas flows to the compressor and the expander via the supply line when a differential pressure between the upstream and downstream portions of the pipeline is below a predetermined threshold and does not flow to the compressor and expander when the differential pressure between the upstream and downstream portions of the pipeline is above a predetermined threshold.