Duct

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9746107-B2
Application number	US-201214125368-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2012
Priority date	Jun 28, 2011
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

A duct in which the welding strength of the parting lines is enhanced and which facilitates the attaching job is provided. The duct of the present embodying mode has a mean thickness of the entire duct of 1 mm or less, and includes projections on inner surface sides of the duct on the parting lines.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A resin duct, comprising:
a first wall section and a second wall section welded via parting lines, wherein:
a mean thickness of the entire duct is 1 mm or less, and the duct comprises projections formed by projecting the resin on inner surface sides of the duct on the parting lines; and
wherein the duct includes an opening, and
wherein the opening includes a connecting section to connect to an other member and a trumpet-shaped section having a diameter larger than the connecting section;
wherein the connecting section is female-type and configured to receive the other member so that the other member is inserted into the opening and connected to the connecting section, and
wherein the projections are formed at least on an inner surface side of the trumpet-shaped section.

2. The resin duct in accordance with claim 1 , wherein a thickness B in a predetermined cross section of the duct, and a thickness A defined by a distance from an outermost surface of the duct at the parting line in which projections are formed to an innermost surface of the projections, satisfy the relationship: A≦2.0 B.

3. The resin duct in accordance with claim 1 , further comprising:
crashed sections formed by crashing the resin on outer surface sides of the duct on the parting lines, wherein:
the crashed sections are formed at least on outer surface sides of the connecting sections, and
the crashed sections are continuously formed from a location of the body section of the duct to a location at which the trumpet-shaped contour begins.

4. The resin duct in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the parting lines are formed in an entire circumference of the duct.

5. The resin duct in accordance with claim 2 , wherein the thickness B and the thickness A satisfy the relationship: 1.2 B≦A≦1.8 B.

Assignees

• Tani Naoto
• Tamada Teruo
• Iwasaki Kenji
• Kyoraku Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tani Naoto
• Tamada Teruo
• Iwasaki Kenji

Classifications

• F16L9/127

  the walls consisting of a single layer · CPC title

• F24F13/0245

  Manufacturing or assembly of air ducts; Methods therefor · CPC title

• F24F13/0209

  characterised by their connecting means, e.g. flanges · CPC title

• F16L9/006 Primary

  specially profiled (F16L9/003 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F24F13/02 Primary

  Ducting arrangements · CPC title