2008 Volume 2008 Issue 7-2 Pages 477-482
The technology of on-off solenoid valves is now considered as a core technology in the fields of the production line of semi-conductor chips and the micro fluid chips for medical applications. And on-off solenoid valves, which operate by compressed air, are characterized by high speed response, great repeatability and that the pressure on the cross sectional area of poppet is kept constant regardless of the fluctuation of the pressure exerted on the ports. The primary objective of this study is to compare the optimally designed solenoid valve with the actually produced one and to design a power saving circuit which can highly improve the efficiency by providing optimal current according to mechanical load. The power saving circuit can be adopted into the 0.35Watt micro valve which has been developed through this study and lower the power consumption of the valve to 0.1 Watt. The absorbing force at 0.3mm stroke, the initial stroke of Plunger and Core, is very large. But the absorbing force at 0mm stroke when Plunger and Core are tightly stuck to each other is several newtons lower than that at the initial stroke, the valve still performs stable and flawless though. It means that with lower current consumption, it still performs stable. Based on that, we've designed the power saving circuit.
