Patent 11149627 was granted and assigned to Denso on October, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A cooling-water control valve device includes a valve member, a housing for accommodating the valve member, a pipe unit, a valve seat member, a spring and so on. The pipe unit has, at its axial end on a side facing to the valve member, an outside cylindrical portion and an inside cylindrical portion, which is coaxially arranged with the outside cylindrical portion at a radial-inside position of the outside cylindrical portion. An annular accommodation space is formed between the inside cylindrical portion and the outside cylindrical portion. The spring and the valve seat member are arranged in the annular accommodation space.