To provide a technique for increasing a degree of freedom of design of a vacuum control valve having a shutoff function.
This invention provides the vacuum control valve 30 which is connected between a vacuum vessel and a vacuum pump and controls a vacuum pressure inside the vacuum vessel by operating a valve opening degree by working fluid. The vacuum control valve 30 includes: an operation part provided with a valve body 33 and a piston for performing the operation of the valve opening degree and shutoff by adjusting a lift amount; a cylinder 31 for housing the piston; an energizing part for energizing the operation part in a direction of reducing the lift amount; a bellofram 34 for tightly closing a gap between an outer peripheral surface of the piston and an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder 31 while following movement of the piston; a valve opening degree operation chamber tightly closed by the bellofram 34, for generating a load in the direction of increasing the lift amount corresponding to a working pressure of the working fluid; and a shutoff load generation chamber for generating the load in the direction of reducing the lift amount to the operation part corresponding to supply of the working fluid.
BANDO HIROSHI
Hiroshi Matsuda