VACUUM HEAT-INSULATING CONTAINER

• US 20180141740A1
• Filed: 10/31/2017
• Published: 05/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: YAMASHITA, Osamu
• Granted Patent: US 10,661,970 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 41/022 Constructional details of the elements forming vacuum space
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3841 formed with double walls, i.e. hollow

Abstract

Provided is a vacuum heat-insulating container including an outer cylinder having a bottom and an inner cylinder having a bottom and disposed inside the outer cylinder, with a vacuum space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder. The inner cylinder and the outer cylinder are disposed such that an opening plane of the inner cylinder is located outward of an opening plane of the outer cylinder. The outer cylinder has a first annular wall. The inner cylinder has a second annular wall. The vacuum heat-insulating container further includes an annular sealing member that is made of an elastic body having a lower coefficient of heat transfer than the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, and that is squeezed between the first annular wall and the second annular wall so as to seal the vacuum space.

Claims

1. A vacuum heat-insulating container comprising:

an outer cylinder having a bottom, and

an inner cylinder having a bottom and disposed inside the outer cylinder, wherein

a vacuum space is formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder,

the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder are disposed such that an opening plane of the inner cylinder is located outward of an opening plane of the outer cylinder,

the outer cylinder has a first annular wall that extends inwardly along the opening plane of the outer cylinder, and that includes a leading end portion at a distance from an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder,

the inner cylinder has a second annular wall that extends toward an outside of the inner cylinder along the opening plane of the inner cylinder, and that faces the first annular wall, and

the vacuum heat-insulating container includes an annular sealing member that is made of an elastic body having a coefficient of heat transfer lower than a coefficient of heat transfer of the outer cylinder and a coefficient of heat transfer of the inner cylinder, and that is squeezed between the first annular wall and the second annular wall so as to seal the vacuum space.

2. The vacuum heat-insulating container according to claim 1, wherein

the outer cylinder is disposed such that the opening plane of the outer cylinder is oriented along a vertical direction,

a restraining member that restrains the outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder from moving toward an inner circumferential surface of the outer cylinder is disposed at a vertically lower side of the vacuum space, and

the restraining member is made of a material having a coefficient of heat transfer lower than the coefficient of heat transfer of the outer cylinder and the coefficient of heat transfer of the inner cylinder.

3. The vacuum heat-insulating container according to claim 2, wherein a surface of the restraining member facing the inner cylinder has a low-friction part in which a frictional force is smaller than a frictional force in the other part.

4. The vacuum heat-insulating container according to claim 2, wherein a surface of the restraining member facing the outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder has a low-friction part having a coefficient of friction lower than a coefficient of friction of the restraining member.

5. The vacuum heat-insulating container according to claim 2, wherein the restraining member has an arc cross-sectional shape and has a predetermined width in a longitudinal direction of the vacuum heat-insulating container.