COUPLING MEMBER FOR PIPE COUPLING

• US 20100051129A1
• Filed: 11/13/2007
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nitto Kohki Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nitto Kohki Company Limited
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,196,606 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 137/798
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 37/34 at least one of the lift valves being of the sleeve type, i.e. a sleeve is telescoped over an inner cylindrical wall
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 251/90 Valves with o-rings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87949 Linear motion of flow path sections operates both
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87957 Valves actuate each other
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/9029 With coupling

Abstract

A female coupling member having a valve member which provides a secure closing effect is provided. The coupling member includes an outer annular sealing member (56) which is sandwiched between an outer peripheral surface (54) of the valve member and an outer valve seat portion (38) for sealing therebetween when a valve member (44) is at a closed position, and an inner annular sealing member (60) fixedly attached to the valve member (44) on the radially outer side with respect to an inner valve seat portion (42). The inner annular sealing member extends radially inward beyond an annular surface defining a valve opening (40) of the inner valve seat portion. When the outer annular sealing member (56) is sandwiched between the outer peripheral surface of the valve member and the outer valve seat portion, the inner annular sealing member engages with the inner valve seat portion (42) and is elastically deformed so as to be bent, thereby being pressed against the inner valve seat portion (42) for sealing between the inner valve seat portion (42) and an inner peripheral surface of the valve member (44).

Claims

1. A female coupling member comprising:

a cylindrical coupling body having a male member receiving portion and a fluid passage portion communicating with a fluid passage of a male coupling member received into the male member receiving portion; and

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a valve device for opening and closing the fluid passage portion, the valve device being disposed in the coupling body, the valve device comprising;

an outer valve seat portion projectingly formed on an inner peripheral surface of the coupling body so as to surround the male member receiving portion;

an inner valve seat portion forming an annular valve opening between the outer valve seat portion and the inner valve seat portion in the coupling body;

an annular valve member disposed in the coupling body so as to be displaceable in an axial direction thereof between a closed position where the valve member engages with the outer and inner valve seat portions to close the valve opening and an open position where the valve member is apart from the outer and inner valve seat portions to open the valve opening;

a spring for biasing the valve member toward the closed position;

an outer annular sealing member for sealing between an outer peripheral surface of the valve member and the outer valve seat portion by being sandwiched between the outer peripheral surface and the outer valve seat portion when the valve member is at the closed position; and

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an inner annular sealing member fixedly attached to the valve member on the radially outer side with respect to the inner valve seat portion and extending radially inward beyond an annular surface, which defines the valve opening of the inner valve seat portion, wherein, the inner annular sealing member engages with the inner valve seat portion and is elastically deformed so as to be bent, thereby being pressed against the inner valve seat portion for sealing between the inner valve seat portion and an inner peripheral surface of the valve member when the outer annular sealing member is sandwiched between the outer peripheral surface of the valve member and the outer valve seat portion.

2. A female coupling member according to claim 1, wherein the outer annular sealing member is disposed on the outer peripheral surface of the valve member.

3. A female coupling member according to claim 1, wherein:

the inner peripheral surface of the valve member includes an annular axially-extending surface which is advanced along an annular surface, defining the valve opening, of the inner valve seat portion when the valve member comes to the closed position, and an annular radially-extending surface extending radially outwardly on the side of the open position with respect to the axially-extending surface;

the inner annular sealing member has a fixed portion fixedly attached to the valve member on the side of the open position with respect to the annular axially-extending surface of the valve member, and an extending portion adapted to extend from the fixed portion, radially inwardly along the annular radially-extending surface of the valve member, to the radially inner side with respect to the inner peripheral surface of the valve member; and

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when the valve member comes to the closed position in the case where the annular axially-extending surface of the valve member is advanced to the inner side of the annular surface of the inner valve seat portion with the outer annular sealing member being pressed against the outer valve seat portion, the extending portion engages with the inner valve seat portion and is then bent, thereby being elastically deformed so as to move away from the annular radially-extending surface of the valve member.

4. A female coupling member according to claim 3, wherein when the valve member comes close to the closed position, the extending portion engages with the inner valve seat portion, and then the outer annular sealing member engages with the outer valve seat portion, and wherein as the valve member comes further closer to the closed position, the extending portion is bent and elastically deformed so as to move away from the annular radially-extending surface of the valve member with the outer annular sealing member being pressed against the outer valve seat portion.

5. A female coupling member comprising:

a cylindrical coupling body having a male member receiving portion and a fluid passage portion communicating with a fluid passage of a male coupling member received into the male member receiving portion; and

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a valve device for opening and closing the fluid passage portion disposed in the coupling body, the valve device comprising;

an outer valve seat portion projectingly formed on an inner peripheral surface of the coupling body so as to surround the male member receiving portion;

an inner valve seat portion forming, in the coupling body, an annular valve opening between the outer valve seat portion and the inner valve seat portion;

an annular valve member disposed in the coupling body so as to be displaceable in an axial direction thereof between a closed position where the valve member engages with the outer and inner valve seat portions to close the valve opening and an open position where the valve member is apart from the outer and inner valve seat portions to open the valve opening;

a spring for biasing the valve member toward the closed position;

an inner annular sealing member for sealing between an inner peripheral surface of the valve member and the inner valve seat portion by being sandwiched between the inner peripheral surface and the inner valve seat portion when the valve member is at the closed position; and

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an outer annular sealing member fixedly attached to the valve member on the radially inner side with respect to the outer valve seat portion and extending radially more outward beyond an annular surface defining the valve opening of the outer valve seat portion, wherein when the inner annular sealing member is sandwiched between the inner peripheral surface of the valve member and the inner valve seat portion, the outer annular sealing member engages with the outer valve seat portion and is elastically deformed so as to be bent, thereby being pressed against the outer valve seat portion for sealing between the outer valve seat portion and an outer peripheral surface of the valve member.

6. A female coupling member comprising:

a cylindrical coupling body having a male member receiving portion and a fluid passage portion communicating with a fluid passage of a male coupling member received into the male member receiving portion; and

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a valve device, which is disposed in the coupling body, for opening and closing the fluid passage portion, the valve device comprising;

an outer valve seat portion projectingly formed on an inner peripheral surface of the coupling body so as to surround the male member receiving portion;

an inner valve seat portion forming an annular valve opening between the outer valve seat portion and the inner valve seat portion in the coupling body;

an annular valve member disposed in the coupling body so as to be displaceable in an axial direction thereof between a closed position where the valve member engages with the outer and inner valve seat portions to close the valve opening and an open position where the valve member is apart from the outer and inner valve seat portions to open the valve opening;

a spring for biasing the valve member toward the closed position;

an inner annular sealing member fixedly attached to the valve member on the radially outer side with respect to the inner valve seat portion and extending radially inward beyond an annular surface defining the valve opening of the inner valve seat portion, wherein when the valve member is at the closed position, the inner annular sealing member engages with the inner valve seat portion and is elastically deformed so as to be bent, thereby being pressed against the inner valve seat portion for sealing between the inner valve seat portion and an inner peripheral surface of the valve member; and

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an outer annular sealing member fixedly attached to the valve member on the radially inner side with respect to the outer valve seat portion and extending radially outward beyond an annular surface defining the valve opening of the outer valve seat portion, wherein when the valve member is at the closed position, the outer annular sealing member engages with the outer valve seat portion and is elastically deformed so as to be bent, thereby being pressed against the outer valve seat portion for sealing between the outer valve seat portion and an outer peripheral surface of the valve member.