Sentence examples for a check valve from inspiring English sources

"It's kind of like a check valve on a sewer line".

I remember having work done on my well ages ago when a check valve failed.

Flowing water in the inlet pipe causes a check valve to close.

A small steel ball serves as a check valve to admit the oil into the valve-lifter cup but prevent its escape.

BMW laid the problem to a check valve of the brake vacuum pump leaking a small amount of lubricating oil into the vacuum hose.

The vehicles would need a steel shield under the fuel tank and a check valve to keep gasoline from leaking if the fuel-filler pipe were ripped off, he said.

Moreover, Söllmann et al. reported a blood clot-like foreign body interspersed with Aspergillus hyphae obstructing the distal chip of the tracheal tube with a check valve-like formation, which led to tension pneumothorax after anesthesia induction [5].

To examine analytical results, a check-valve piezostack pump was fabricated and tested.

Then, a fluidic cell has been built and the microvalve has been demonstrated to work as a check-valve or as ON/OFF valve when being magnetically actuated.

Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) most commonly involves the left upper or right middle lobe with compression of the bronchus causing a check-valve mechanism resulting in progressive hyperinflation of the affected lobe and the compression of adjacent lobes, the contralateral lung and mediastinal structures.

Current hypotheses on aetiologies as cause of the cystic airspace include a check-valve mechanism involving the small airways leading to outflow obstruction, lepidic growth of adenocarcinoma superimposed on destroyed alveolar walls, cystification of tumour and growth of adenocarcinoma along the wall of a preexisting bulla [58, 60, 61].