Resin tube fitting

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11486525-B2
Application number	US-201816475312-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 15, 2018
Priority date	Mar 30, 2017
Publication date	Nov 1, 2022
Grant date	Nov 1, 2022

Abstract

A resin tube fitting prevents backwaters between its body and inner ring. The fitting includes a body, an inner ring, and a union nut. The body has main, outer, and inner sleeves, and a groove. The inner ring has a cylinder, an insert, and outer and inner protrusions. The union nut has a body and a pressing member. The inner sleeve has a through hole serving as a channel. The inner protrusion extends from the cylinder to an axial direction to contact the inner sleeve. The inner protrusion has a through hole serving as another channel connected with the inner sleeve's channel. The tip of the inner protrusion has an inner diameter not less than the minimum inner diameter of the inner sleeve. An inner peripheral surface is located at the inner periphery of the inner protrusion and causes it to reduce in inner diameter toward another axial direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A resin tube fitting connectable with a longitudinal end of a tube, comprising:
a fitting body including:
a main sleeve;
an outer sleeve extending coaxially from the main sleeve to a first axial direction;
an inner sleeve disposed inside the outer sleeve and extending coaxially from the main sleeve to the first axial direction;
a groove surrounded by the main sleeve, the outer sleeve, and the inner sleeve to be open to the first axial direction; and
a first thread located at an outer periphery of the outer sleeve;
an inner ring including:
an annular cylinder placed inside the outer sleeve;
an annular insert extending from the cylinder to the first axial direction to be pressed into the longitudinal end of the tube;
an annular outer protrusion extending from the cylinder to a second axial direction to be pressed into the groove; and
an annular inner protrusion extending from the cylinder to the second axial direction to axially contact the inner sleeve, the inner protrusion placed inside the outer protrusion to radially face the outer protrusion across the inner sleeve contacting the inner protrusion, the inner protrusion having:
a tip end with an inner diameter not less than the minimum inner diameter of the inner sleeve:
an outer periphery having an annular tapered surface that causes the inner protrusion to increase in outer diameter toward the first axial direction, and that contacts the inner sleeve when the outer protrusion is pressed into the groove; and
an inner periphery configured to form a wall of a fluid channel together with an inner periphery of the inner sleeve when the tapered surface contacts the inner sleeve, the inner periphery of the inner protrusion having a first inner peripheral surface that,
when the tapered surface is separated from the inner sleeve, causes a tip portion of the inner protrusion to be axially shorter than the tapered surface to reduce in inner diameter toward the first axial direction and is lower angled than the tapered surface, and that,
when the tapered surface contacts the inner sleeve, is deformed to reduce in inclination angle; and

a union nut including:
an annular nut body;
a second thread located at an inner periphery of the nut body to be engaged with the first thread of the fitting body; and
a pressing member configured to press the tube, inside which the insert of the inner ring is placed, against the insert when the second thread is engaged with the first thread.

2. The resin tube fitting according to claim 1 , wherein the first inner peripheral surface is a tapered face.

3. The resin tube fitting according to claim 1 , wherein the first inner peripheral surface is a curved face convex to the radial inside of the inner ring.

4. The resin tube fitting according to claim 1 , wherein the insert of the inner ring comprises:
a slope in an outer periphery of a tip end of the insert, reducing in outer diameter toward the first axial direction, the slope configured to receive the pressing member across the tube when the second thread is engaged with the first thread;
a second inner peripheral surface in an inner periphery of the tip end of the insert, causing the tip end of the insert to reduce in inner diameter toward the second axial direction; and
a third inner peripheral surface in an inner periphery of the tip end of the insert, causing the tip end of the insert to reduce in inner diameter toward the second axial direction, the third inner peripheral surface lower angled than the second inner peripheral surface, dislocated from the second inner peripheral surface to the second axial direction, and located at a smaller radius than the slope.

Assignees

• Nippon Pillar Packing

Inventors

• Fujii Makoto
• Iida Toshihide
• Koike Tomoyuki
• Naruo Motoaki

Classifications

• F16L19/043

  with additional sealing means · CPC title

• F16L19/028

  the collars or flanges being obtained by deformation of the pipe wall · CPC title

• F16L47/041 Primary

  the plastic pipe end being flared either before or during the making of the connection · CPC title

• F16L19/041

  the ring being an insert (F16L19/043 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16L33/223 Primary

  the sealing surfaces being pressed together by means of a member, e.g. a swivel nut, screwed on or into one of the joint parts · CPC title