Tube connection structure of fluid pressure-operated apparatus

• US 6,450,543 B1
• Filed: 12/16/1999
• Issued: 09/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: SMC Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Fukano, Yoshihiro, Maruyama, Tetsuro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nicholson, Eric K.
• Application Number:
  US09/461,757
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: 285/331, 285/423, 285/21.1, 285/21.3
• US Class Current: 285/21.1
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 47/02 Welded joints; Adhesive joints

Abstract

An insert section of an insert member is inserted into a tube member in a state in which the insert member is detached from a recess to form a diametrally expanded section on the tube member. Subsequently, the insert member is fitted to the recess to install the tube member to the recess. At this stage, an outer circumferential surface of an expanded section of the insert member tightly contacts with an inner circumferential surface of the recess to effect the sealing function. Subsequently, a tapered section and an outer circumferential surface of the tube member are resin-welded by using a welding material. Thus, the tube member is prevented from disengagement from a body.

Claims

1. A tube connection structure of a fluid pressure-operated apparatus, comprising:

a body which is formed of a resin-material, which constitutes said fluid pressure-operated apparatus, and which is formed with a fluid passage;

an insert member which is fitted to a recess formed at an opening of said fluid passage, which is formed with a passage for making communication with said fluid passage, and which is inserted into one end of a tube member composed of a resin material, wherein;

said insert member is formed with a step section for making abutment against said one end to regulate an amount of insertion of said tube member, and said tube member and said body are connected by resin-welding said opening of said fluid passage and said tube member, and

said insert member has an expanded section formed to expand radially outwardly therefrom, and a sealing function is effected by an outer circumferential surface of said expanded section and an inner circumferential surface of said recess.

2. A tube connection structure of a fluid pressure-operated apparatus, comprising:

a body which is formed of a resin-material, which constitutes said fluid pressure-operated apparatus, and which is formed with a fluid passage;

an insert member which is fitted to a recess formed at an opening of said fluid passage, which is formed with a passage for making communication with said fluid passage, and which is inserted into one end of a tube member composed of a resin material, wherein;

said insert member is formed with a step section for making abutment against said one end to regulate an amount of insertion of said tube member, and said tube member and said body are connected by resin-welding said opening of said fluid passage and said tube member, and

said insert member has an expanded section formed to expand radially outwardly therefrom, an annular projection is formed on said expanded section, and a sealing function is effected by abutment of said annular projection against an inner circumferential surface of said recess.

3. A tube connection structure of a fluid pressure-operated apparatus, comprising:

a body which is formed of a resin-material, which constitutes said fluid pressure-operated apparatus, and which is formed with a fluid passage;

an insert member which is fitted to a recess formed at an opening of said fluid passage, which is formed with a passage for making communication with said fluid passage, and which is inserted into one end of a tube member composed of a resin material, wherein;

said insert member is formed with a step section for making abutment against said one end to regulate an amount of insertion of said tube member, and said tube member and said body are connected by resin-welding said opening of said fluid passage and said tube member, and

said insert member has an expanded section formed to expand radially outwardly therefrom, and a sealing function is effected by abutment of an end surface of said expanded section against a side wall surface of said recess.

4. A tube connection structure of a fluid pressure-operated apparatus, comprising:

a body which is formed of a resin material, which constitutes said fluid pressure-operated apparatus, and which is formed with a fluid passage; and

an insert member which is fitted to a recess formed at an opening of said fluid passage, which is formed with a passage for making communication with said fluid passage, and which is inserted into one end of a tube member composed of a resin material, wherein;

said insert member is formed with a step section for making abutment against said one end to regulate an amount of insertion of said tube member, said body is formed with an annular projection which surrounds an opening of a wall of said recess and which extends along an outer wall of said tube member, and said tube member and said body are connected by deforming said annular projection to melt and fuse said annular projection to said outer wall of said tube member.

5. The tube connection structure of said fluid pressure-operated apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said insert member has an expanded section formed to expand radially outwardly therefrom, and a sealing function is effected by an outer circumferential surface of said expanded section and an inner circumferential surface of said recess.

6. The tube connection structure of said fluid pressure-operated apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said insert member has an expanded section formed to expand radially outwardly therefrom, an annular projection is formed on said expanded section, and a sealing function is effected by abutment of said annular projection against an inner circumferential surface of said recess.

7. The tube connection structure of said fluid pressure-operated apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said insert member has an expanded section formed to expand radially outwardly therefrom, and a sealing function is effected by abutment of an end surface of said expanded section against a side wall surface of said recess.