Notice the problems referred to above, a target of the present invention provides a kind of high-precision flow control valve, obtain the linear relationship between valve opening area and the flow in the range of flow of broad, and this flow control valve of a kind of application carries out the method for Flow-rate adjustment.
Another target of the present invention provides a kind ofly can carry out the precision height of Flow-rate adjustment, flow control valve simple in structure in special low discharge scope, and this flow control valve of a kind of application carries out the method for Flow-rate adjustment.
The 3rd target of the present invention provide a kind of can be in the method for carrying out the accurate adjusting of fluid flow in order to make high-quality sensitive material.
In order to realize above-mentioned target and other target and other advantage of the present invention, a valve chamber has a round entrance.Valve chamber has a valve pocket, link to each other with inlet and with the crossing substantially horizontal of Way on extend.There is one first to hold the valve rod part on the valve pocket.Valve chamber has an outlet valve block, and with first to hold valve rod part relative.On the outlet valve block, there is one second to hold the valve rod part.Having an outlet on the valve block, hold valve rod and partly be connected with second, is an elongated strip shaped of extending in the horizontal direction.Valve rod place slidably first hold valve rod part and second hold valve rod partly in, be used to change the effective vent area of outlet, with the flow of regulated fluid.
Valve rod roughly be one cylindrical, first and second to hold valve rod part roughly be a half round post for each.
The perpendicular distance of valve pocket is less than the diameter of valve rod, and the perpendicular distance of valve outlet port is less than the diameter of valve rod, and two perpendicular distances are all crossing with the glide direction of valve rod.
The horizontal equivalent of valve pocket approximates the horizontal equivalent of valve outlet port, and the perpendicular distance of valve pocket is greater than the perpendicular distance of outlet, and two horizontal equivalents are all on the glide direction of valve rod.
From containing the solution of silver ion, contain the solution of halide ion and contain in the emulsions of silver halide and select fluid.
In the production method of emulsions, first and second solution offer reaction tank, a solution in first and second solution comprises silver ion, and another solution in first and second solution comprises halide ion.The first flow control valve device places on first pipeline, and first pipeline provides first solution to reaction tank.For the first flow control valve device, a motor slides to change the effective vent area of valve, to regulate from the flow of first solution of outlet outflow valve rod.Density to the silver ion in the reaction tank is measured.Determine first target flow according to the density of silver ion.Flow to first solution that flows out from the first flow control valve device is measured.The rotating speed of control motor, regulating first measured value is first desired value, with the density of silver ion in the conditioned reaction pond.
Calculate the ratio of measured value and desired value, motor makes valve rod slide according to the length that changes, and the length of variation multiplies each other by ratio and effective vent length and obtains, and to realize servocontrol, makes measured value move closer to desired value.
And one second flow control valve device places on second pipeline, and second pipeline provides second solution to reaction tank, and the similar of second flow control valve device wherein is in the first flow control valve device.The flow of second solution that second flow control valve device is flowed out is measured.By realizing servocontrol, second measured value is set at second desired value to second flow control valve device.
In order to make emulsions, use a kind of emulsions manufacturing equipment.The emulsions manufacturing equipment comprises first pipeline and second pipeline, has the first flow modulating valve of motor.In this equipment, measuring equipment is measured the density of the silver ion in the reaction tank.The flow of first solution that flowmeter survey flows out from the first flow control valve device.A controller is determined first target flow according to the density of silver ion, and the control motor rotary speed is adjusted to first desired value with first measured value.
According to the present invention, this flow control valve has very high precision, can obtain the linear relationship of valve opening area and flow in the range of flow of broad.
This flow control valve structure is simple, when carrying out Flow-rate adjustment in low especially range of flow, has very high resolution.
Among the present invention, this flow rate adjusting method can be realized the accurate adjusting of flow in making high-quality sensitive material.
In conjunction with the accompanying drawings, above-mentioned target of the present invention and advantage become very obvious in the following detailed description.
In Fig. 1, a flow control valve of the present invention is used for making emulsions equipment.In this equipment, gel solution is housed in the reaction tank.KBr solution and AgNO3 solution join in the gel solution with proper speed.Halide ion Br-in KBr solution and the silver ion Ag+ in AgNO3 solution react to each other, and generate bromide silver (AgBr) emulsion.Notice, except KBr solution, also can use the alkali-metal solution of other halogen, for example NaCl and KI.Halide ion Cl-and I-and silver ion Ag+ reaction generate the silver emulsion of AgCl and AgI, also may generate two or more silver halides.
KBr solution provides from the liquid pool (not shown) by pump 11.The KBr flow of solution is crossed first flow modulating valve 12 and is joined in the gel solution in the reaction tank 10.Measure the flow of KBr solution by flowmeter 13.AgNO3 solution provides from the liquid pool (not shown).The AgNO3 flow of solution is crossed in the gel solution that second flow control valve joins reaction tank 10.Measure the flow of AgNO3 solution by flowmeter 17. Flow control valve 12 and 16 opening area change by the motor 21 and 22 that is driven by controller 20 respectively.Flow to the fluid flow of reaction tank 10, promptly the amount of fluid in the unit time is adjusted. Flow control valve 12 and 16 the detailed structure description of face as follows.
Flow to the flow of the KBr solution the gel solution in 13 unit of measurement's times of flowmeter from flow control valve 12.Flowmeter 13 sends the flux signal of a KBr to controller 20 according to the flow that records.Flow to the flow of the AgNO3 solution of gel solution in 17 unit of measurement's times of flowmeter from flow control valve 16.Flowmeter 17 sends the flux signal of an AgNO3 solution to controller 20 according to the flow that records.
The blade 23 of stirrer places reaction tank 10, makes gel solution mix with KBr solution and AgNO3 solution by motor 24 rotations, makes that the silver ion Ag+ density pAg in the gel solution is even.Produce thin AgBr particle or crystal in the gel solution, and ripe, make that silver ion density is even in the gel solution.
When making emulsions, if fine grain size of AgBr or crystal state (said in the field of crystals " habit ") change, the granularity of the photosensitivity of film or image will change.AgBr coating of particles, size and similarity can change, and this depends in emulsions manufacturing and the ripening process density PAg of silver ion in the gel solution.In reaction tank 10, be placed with density detector 25 or electrometer or sensor, be used for measuring the density of the silver ion in the reaction tank gel solution.Density detector 25 produces a density signal according to the density value that measures, and density signal is sent to controller 20.
Controller 20 is determined the valve opening area information of flow control valve 12 and 16 according to the density of the silver ion in the density signal detection gel solution according to the measured value of density.Controller 20 also receives from the flow of the Kbr of flowmeter 13 and from the flow of the AgNO3 solution of flowmeter 17, and flow is judged, perhaps improves the adding speed of KBr solution and AgNO3 solution, to regulate the valve opening area of flow control valve 12 and 16.Therefore controller 20 makes the density Pag of the silver ion in the reaction tank 10 inner gel solution be kept on the predetermined level.
In Fig. 2 and Fig. 2 A, a control valve unit 30 of flow control valve 16 has been described.Control valve unit 30 comprises the valve rod 32 of a valve body 31 and a circle.Valve body 31 is made up of valve chamber 33 that closely links to each other and outlet valve block 34.Between valve chamber 33 and outlet valve block 34, form a valve pocket 35 or clack box.Form an inlet 36 in valve chamber 33, by this inlet, AgNO3 solution flows into valve pocket 35.Form an outlet 37 on outlet valve block 34, by this outlet 37, the solution in the valve pocket 35 flows out.Outlet 37 and valve rod 32 co-ordinations, the flow that regulator solution flows out.
Outlet 37 places out port recess 37a and 37b, and two outlet groove shaped are formed in the outside of outlet valve block 34 and valve pocket 35, are shaped as flute profile.The direction A vertical and that solution flows out of outlet 37 intersects.When the opening area that goes out port recess 37b in the valve pocket 35 was regulated by valve rod 32, the shape of outlet 37 can be avoided producing non-stationary flow owing to marginal effect makes on the limit that goes out port recess 37b, and the back also will be described in detail.By use traffic modulating valve 12 and 16, can in comprising low especially and extra high range of flow, obtain the ratio or the linear relationship of flow and valve opening area.In low especially range of flow, carry out flow control very high resolution is arranged.
Suppose that outlet 37 has a length L, the outflow direction with respect to vertical solution has the length greater than L to valve pocket 35 in outlet 37 back.Valve pocket 35 holds valve rod part 42 by inlet chase 41 and one second and forms.Inlet chase 41 is connected with inlet 36.Inlet chase 41 comprises that one first is held the valve rod part.Second holds valve rod part 42 is connected with outlet 37.
Second holds valve rod part 42 space, be connected with outlet 37 by this space inlet chase 41, in as the internal surface of valve seat 44 also as valve chamber 33 with export the sealing surfaces of valve block 34.Valve rod 32 is inserted into a side of valve body 31 by a sleeve 45, and valve rod 32 holds in the post part 42 longitudinally-slidable along outlet 37 second.The mobile mechanism that back will be described makes valve rod 32 slide between fully open position and complete shut-down position.When at fully open position, thus valve rod 32 from valve pocket 35, withdraw to open out port recess 37b and second and hold valve rod part 42 and be connected, when in the complete shut-down position, cover the whole port recess 37b of going out, hold valve rod part 42 to close second.
In Fig. 3, valve arrangement 30 is with the formal specification of sectional drawing.Valve rod 44 has the spill of a bending, and diameter equals the diameter of valve rod 32.The circular surface of valve rod 32 closely contacts with valve seat 44.Therefore, can prevent that the solution that riddles in the inlet chase 41 from flowing out to outlet by valve rod 32 and valve seat 44.The height of the opening of inlet chase 41 makes valve rod 32 closely contact with valve seat 44 less than the diameter of valve rod 32, and prevents the end shake of valve rod.
Inlet chase 41 comprises one at first chase that holds in the valve rod part.The circular surface of valve rod 32 closely contacts with the concave surface of inlet chase 41.
The width of outlet 37 promptly goes out the diameter of the width of port recess 37b less than valve rod 32.When valve rod 32 holds in the valve rod part 42 when sliding second, increase in proportion or reduces at second opening length of going into port recess 37b or the A/F that holds valve rod part 42 in, so be proportional to the valve opening area from the flow of the fluids that export 37 outflows.Have flow control valve 16 simple in structure of valve arrangement 30, can produce in batches.Flow control valve 16 requisite spaces are installed to be reduced.
The smooth surface of valve rod 32 and valve seat 44 makes the slit can not occur between valve rod 32 and valve seat 44.The width of outlet 37 is vertically to keep constant along outlet in 3% accuracy rating in the error that allows.Therefore can guarantee the linear relationship between valve opening area and the flow.Notice valve rod 32 be one cylindrical, but also can be one plate shaped or prismatic.Consider sealing and operability, valve rod 32 is preferably cylindrical.
In order to realize the repetition High Accuracy Control to the valve rod position, valve rod 32 comes the slide adjusting valve opening area by a mechanical structure among Fig. 4 A and Fig. 4 B.This mechanical structure comprises a motor 22,52, slide plates 53 of axle and a guide rod 54 that makes the transfer mechanism rotation.Motor 22 for example is a kind of servomotor, by controller 20 controls.Axle 52 has a ball screw thread 52a, axially links to each other with motor 22.Slide plate 53 has a box thread 53a, and 52a matches with the ball screw thread.One end of valve rod 32 links to each other with slide plate 53.Guide rod 54 is regulated the slip of slide plates 53, makes slide plate 53 endwisely slipping along axle 52 or valve rod 32.Ball screw thread 52a and box thread 53a and transfer mechanism cooperating.
Motor 22 is driven so that axle 52 rotates, so valve rod 32 can slide along the direction of valve standard-sized sheet and valve complete shut-down.In Fig. 4 A, valve rod 32 is in fully open position, and valve rod 32 is wherein withdrawn from the valve pocket 35 so that second hold the opening area maximum that port recess 37b of valve rod part.In Fig. 4 B, valve rod 32 is in the closed position, is 0 at second opening area that holds the groove 37b in the valve rod part.The slippage of valve rod 32 is carried out the ratio adjusting according to the corner of the running shaft of motor 22, makes the valve opening area accurately to regulate.Even when flowing is segmentation or continuous, the reacting dose of Flow-rate adjustment is also very high, because the slippage of valve rod 32 is proportional to the corner of motor 22, the valve opening area also is proportional to the corner of motor 22.
Notice that slide in order to make valve rod 32, other mechanical structures can be used for the slippage of valve rod is accurately regulated.For example, the corner of a motor can be by a rotation decoder measuring.The rotation of motor can convert straight line motion to the modulating valve opening area by a rack and pinion mechanism.
The material of the material of valve body 31 and valve rod 32 can be selected suitable material.Valve body 31 preferably uses the different material of hardness with valve rod 32, becomes and can not move between valve body 31 and the valve rod 32 preventing.Also to consider the precision of material work when selecting material, prevent because to be conditioned below the corrosive action of fluid solution be valve rod 32 and the example of the combination of the material of valve body 31: pottery/stainless steel; Titanium alloy/pottery; Stainless steel/chromium plating stainless steel.
Outlet 37 width W and length L can change along with the scope of the adjusting of required flow together with the thickness of control 32 and length.The width W of valve opening 37 and length L are decided by the range of flow of required adjusting, therefore use single valve can be implemented in the interior flow control of big range of flow.The structure of flow control valve 12 of noticing KBr solution is identical with flow control valve 16.
Operation of the present invention is described below.Come the KBr flow of solution inflow-rate of water turbine modulating valve 12 and the flowmeter 13 of self-pumping 11, join in the gel solution of reaction tank 10.Come the AgNO3 flow of solution inflow-rate of water turbine modulating valve 16 and the flowmeter 17 of self-pumping 15, join in the gel solution of reaction tank 10.Ag+ in Br-in the KBr solution and the AgNO3 solution reacts to each other, and generates AgBr or bromination silver salt or halogen silver salt.
When the variation that detects the density of the silver ion Ag+ in reaction tank 10 when controller 20 departs from predetermined allowed band, the flow in the unit time of controller 20 calculating K Br solution and AgNO3 solution so that the density PAg of silver ion remain unchanged.According to result calculated, controller is determined the information of the valve opening area of flow control valve 12 and 16.And controller 20 is according to the information of the valve opening area of flow control valve 12 and 16 and sense of rotation and the angle of swing of determining motor 21 and 22 from the flow in the unit time shown in the flux signal of flowmeter 13 and 17.
When silver ion density surpasses a reference value, determine that the sense of rotation of motor 21 and angle to enlarge the valve opening area of flow control valve 12, improve the adding speed or the flow of KBr solution.The sense of rotation of definite motor 22 and angle reduce the adding speed or the flow of AgNO3 solution to reduce valve 16 opening areas simultaneously.
In the flow control valve 16 of AgNO3 solution, motor 22 rotation makes valve rod 32 slide to closed position, is positioned the position that information determined of the valve opening area determined by controller 20.The opening area that goes out port recess 37b reduces according to the slippage of valve rod 32, to reduce the valve opening area.The AgNO3 solution that flows through flow control valve 16 reduces.As a result, the AgNO3 solution that joins in the reaction tank 10 reduces.
When controller 20 is considered the valve opening area and when regulating flow control valve 16, controller 20 monitorings are from the flow of the AgNO3 solution of flowmeter 17.Thereby produce a servocontrol.If the flow of AgNO3 solution does not also reach predetermined amount of flow when flow control valve 16 places a predetermined open position, the valve opening area will be adjusted.
Simultaneously, motor 21 rotations increase the flow of KBr solution to enlarge the opening area of flow control valve 12.Monitoring produces a servocontrol of motor 22 from the flux signal of the KBr solution of flowmeter 13, thereby regulates the valve opening area of flow control valve 12.Therefore the density of silver ion maintains on the predetermined level.
If the density PAg that detects the silver ion in the gel solution is less than reference value, motor 22 rotations make valve rod 32 slide to the standard-sized sheet direction, increase AgNO3 solution and join flow in the reaction tank 10.Simultaneously, motor 21 rotations reduce the flow of KBr solution to reduce the opening area of flow control valve 12.Monitoring from the flux signal of flowmeter 13 and flowmeter 17 to regulate the flow of KBr and AgNO3 solution.Motor 21,22 can servocontrol be regulated, and regulates the valve opening area of flow control valve 12 and 16 respectively.
In flow control valve 16, the outflow direction of the vertical and solution of outlet 37 intersects.The shape that has the outlet 37 of valve rod 32 should prevent out that the non-stationary flow at the edge of port recess 37b occurs.Therefore, can obtain good proportion or linear relationship between valve opening area and the flow.Even flow repeats or flip-flop, the reacting dose of Flow-rate adjustment is also very high, because flow can reset reliably along with the variation of opening area.If AgNO3 solution carries out Flow-rate adjustment in low especially scope, flow also can be accurately and appropriate regulation.Proportional increase or the minimizing along with the variation of the corner of motor 22 of valve opening area is to realize Flow-rate adjustment.As a result, by top simple adjustment, the flow that joins the AgNO3 solution in the reaction tank 10 can correctly be regulated.Therefore the load of controller 20 is very little.The effect of flow control valve 16 is equally applicable to flow control valve 12.
Respectively the flow of KBr and AgNO3 solution is monitored by flowmeter 13 and 17.According to the flow that records and the density measurement of prober 25 flow control valve 12 and 16 is regulated.Thereby can accurately regulate the flow of KBr and AgNO3 solution.
In the above embodiments, KBr solution and AgNO3 solution are carried out Flow-rate adjustment.The present invention can regulate other solution, liquid or fluid equally.In each valve, the importer of solution is to identical with the Way out of solution in the above.In the present invention, the Way out of valve also can be angled with Way in.
In the above embodiments, gel solution is as the Bond in the manufacturing of the emulsions that contains the halogen silver salt.Also can select other Bond, for example, polyvinyl alcohol also can be used for making emulsions.
Fig. 5 has illustrated another embodiment, and one of them emulsion spraying equipment has used a flow control valve 61 of the present invention.This spraying equipment is a kind of known protruding type spraying equipment, and it has a pump to make emulsion or spray solution flow to spray head 63 by flow control valve 61 and flowmeter 62.Spray head 63 when blocking materials moves with a predetermined speed, sprays emulsion layer from its stomidium ejection emulsion on the blocking materials 64 of film, similar in the structure of flow control valve 61 and the foregoing description.Motor 61b regulates the valve opening area of the valve arrangement of flow control valve 61, and the flow of the emulsion that flows to spray head 63 is set.Flowmeter 62 is measured the flow of the emulsion that offers spray head 63.According to measurement result, controller 65 changes the valve opening area of flow control valves 61, makes the flow of emulsion remain unchanged with respect to the travelling speed of blocking materials 64.
Because this spraying equipment has adopted flow control valve 61 of the present invention, the flow that flows to the emulsion of spray head 63 can be regulated by controller 65 simple controls.Emulsion layer 64a can form a homogeneous thick layer on blocking materials 64.Notice,, comprise that the multilayer spraying equipment of flow control valve 61 can be used for the multilayer spraying simultaneously although the spraying equipment among Fig. 5 only forms one deck emulsion layer.Any dissimilar spraying equipment resembles showering equipment, also can comprise flow control valve 61.
Some tests were done.The flow control valve 12,16,61 of said structure is used to comprise the system of solution feed pump.Change the valve opening area, with obtain the valve outlet port flow and and the valve opening area between relation.Make water as the fluid that is conditioned.Flow control the 0-10 liter/minute.The plotted curve of the test of use traffic modulating valve 12,16,61 is seen Fig. 6.As a comparison, a widely used diaphragm flow control valve is used for same system, checks from the flow of valve outlet port outflow and the relation between the valve opening area.Use the curve of this diaphragm flow control valve test acquisition and see Fig. 8.
In outlet 37, width W=2mm.Length L=150mm.Determine the width of W in can the scope between 0.1-10mm, the scope of hope is 0.3-5mm.In Fig. 6, when valve rod 32 close fully valve pocket 35 outlet 37 go out port recess 37b and 37a the time, the valve opening area is " 0% ", when valve rod 32 open fully the outlet 37 go out port recess 37b and 37a the time, the valve opening area is " 100% ".So the length of the chase 41 that enters the mouth is 150mm.In whole 150mm length range, get an intermediate value from the length of inlet chase 41.
In Fig. 8, use diaphragm valve not obtain flow and the middle linear relation of valve opening area.Flow is difficult in the small scope and regulates.In Fig. 6, use traffic modulating valve 12,16,61 has obtained the whole range of flow internal valve opening area that comprises the tiny flow quantity scope of a satisfaction and the linear relationship between the flow.It is found that, use flow control valve 12,16,61 of the present invention to carry out Flow-rate adjustment and can obtain 0.05 liter/minute resolution.
Then, the valve opening area of flow control valve 12,16,61 is set to 25%, 50% again 25%, repeats 100 times.Measure the error of flow.Also be set to 25%, 50% again 25% for diaphragm flow control valve valve opening area, repeat 100 times to measure the error of flow.Use the diaphragm flow control valve to carry out the error average out to 3% of Flow-rate adjustment.And the error that use traffic modulating valve 12,16,61 carries out Flow-rate adjustment has only 1% or still less.
Conclusion is between the valve opening area of flow control valve 12,16,61 of the present invention and the flow good linear relationship to be arranged, and very high repeatability is arranged, although repeat to slide, can guarantee very high precision in long-time.Flow can accurately be regulated, and has very high resolution.
Notice that in fact flow control valve 12,16,61 is placed on the pipeline, also can install on the downstream line 74 in Fig. 7.Downstream line 74 is fixed on the outlet valve block 34, comprise one with outlet 37 chambeies that directly link to each other 72 and a round exit hole 70 that directly links to each other with pipeline.
In the above-described embodiments, outlet valve block 34 separates with valve chamber 33 earlier, then is fixed on the valve chamber 33 again.Use plastic material and also can make an integral body to outlet valve block 34 with valve chamber 33.
Except use traffic modulating valve 12 and 16 is used for two kinds of solution, according to the present invention, have only in flow control valve 16 and 12 one to adopt conventional diaphragm flow control valve, and another adopt novel among Fig. 2-5.
Although the present invention has made detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawings in the foregoing embodiments, various changes, change apparent to one skilled in the art.Therefore, unless these changes depart from scope of the present invention, they are included in protection scope of the present invention.