Patent attributes
Devices for producing vacuum using the Venturi effect have a housing defining a suction chamber, a motive passageway converging toward the suction chamber, a discharge passageway diverging away from the suction chamber, and a suction passageway in fluid communication with the suction chamber. A solenoid valve is positioned in the suction passageway and has an elongate sealing member received inside a coil, a first seal seat at a first end of the coil, and a second seal seat at the second end of the coil. The elongate sealing member is translatable within the coil between the first seal seat and the second seal seat, which define an open position and a closed position. Within the suction chamber, a motive exit of the motive passageway is generally aligned with and spaced apart from a discharge entrance of the discharge passageway to define a Venturi gap.
