| 摘要 |
A pilot operated pressure valve which limits the rate of start-up pressure rise ("soft start-up") and substantially eliminates excessive system pressure spikes. The valve includes an inlet, a hollow cylindrical main body sealingly connected at one end thereof to the inlet, a pilot chamber having a sleeve slidably mounted within the main body and an operating pressure adjustment connected to another end of the main body adjacent another end of the pilot chamber for varying the threshold operating pressure of the valve. A main chamber receives pressurized fluid metered through a main orifice and discharges pressurized fluid through a damping orifice when the main chamber is filled and fluid inlet pressure exceeds the inlet threshold pressure which is just sufficient to open a spring biased pilot ball downstream of the damping orifice. An exit port upstream of the main orifice will open for discharging pressurized fluid from the valve back to a supply tank when inlet pressure exceeds the maximum operating pressure setting of the valve. Pressurized fluid is also metered from the pilot chamber into a pressure compensated priority flow control valve arrangement including an adjust chamber to automatically vary the operating pressure of the valve in "soft start-up" fashion by selectively discharging pressurized fluid from the pilot chamber and/or the adjust chamber in modulated fashion when fluid pressure reaches the threshold operating pressure.
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