Seal device

• US 7,699,320 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2007
• Issued: 04/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eagle Engineering Aerospace Co., Ltd., Eagle Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Eagle Engineering Aerospace Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hiromatsu, Jun, Iguchi, Tetsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo; Peter M
• Assistant Examiner(s): LIU, JONATHAN
• Application Number:
  US11/896,925
• Publication Number:
  US 20080073861A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• Field of Search: 277/644, 277/604, 277/614, 277/616, 277/626, 277/647
• US Class Current: 277/644
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 11/005 Sealing means between non relatively rotating elements
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/33 symmetrical
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 15/0887 the sealing effect being obtained by elastic deformation of the packing

Abstract

A seal device includes a first seal portion, a second seal portion, and a joint base, wherein the first seal portion has a first elastic portion with a flat side surface at one side of a first bight portion and a second elastic portion at the other side of the first bight portion. The second seal portion has a first symmetrical elastic portion with a flat side surface at one side of a second bight portion and a second symmetrical elastic portion at the other side of the second bight portion. A first seal face is disposed on a first outmost circumferential surface of the first elastic portion, and a second seal face is disposed on a second outmost circumferential surface of the first symmetrical elastic portion.

Claims

1. A seal device for effecting a seal at a gap between mount surfaces of assembly components, said gap between said mount surfaces being varied, said seal device comprising:

a) a first seal portion formed from elastic sheet material, having a U-shaped cross-section, and having a first elastic portion corresponding to one side of said U-shaped cross-section, a second elastic portion corresponding to another side of said U-shaped cross-section, and a first bight portion connecting one end portion of said first elastic portion and one end portion of said second elastic portion;

b) a second seal portion formed from elastic sheet material, having a U-shaped cross-section, and having a first elastic portion corresponding to one side of said U-shaped cross-section and being symmetric to said first elastic portion of said first seal portion, a second elastic portion corresponding to another side of said U-shaped cross-section and being symmetric to said second elastic portion of said first seal portion, and a second bight portion connecting ends of said first and second elastic portions of said second seal portion,

said second elastic portion of said second seal portion arranged to face said second elastic portion of said first seal portion,

wherein during a compression free state, an outer side surface of said second elastic portion of said second seal portion faces and contacts an outer side surface of said second elastic portion of said first seal portion, and during a compression state, a part of the outer side surface of said second elastic portion of said second seal portion separates from and is free of contacting the outer side surface of said second elastic portion of said first seal portion;

c) a first seal face bent to an arcuate shape being continuous with another end portion of said first elastic portion of said first seal portion, and contacting the mount surface of one assembly component;

d) a second seal face bent to an arcuate shape being continuous with another end portion of said first elastic portion of said second seal portion, and contacting the mount surface of another assembly component;

e) a joint base continuously connecting another end portion of said second elastic portion of said first seal portion and another end portion of said second elastic portion of said second seal portion and which is arranged to form a circular cross-section and to retain an annular space portion therewithin;

f) a pressure receiving slot of said first seal portion formed in an inner circumferential side of said first seal portion, and inner circumferential surface of said pressure receiving slot of said first seal portion being formed as a pressure receiving surface on which sealed fluid acts through an open portion between said first seal face and said joint base; and

g) a pressure receiving slot of said second seal portion formed in an inner circumferential side of said second seal portion, an inner circumferential surface of said pressure receiving slot of said second seal portion being formed as a pressure receiving surface on which the sealed fluid acts through an open portion between said second seal face and said joint base.

2. A seal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second elastic portion of said second seal portion and said second elastic portion of said first seal portion are arranged in manner to face one another have a contact interface portion at a joint base side and a departure portion at a first bight portion and a second bight portion side, an outer side surface of said second elastic portion of said first seal portion and an outer side surface of said second elastic portion of said second seal portion being in contact with one another in said contact interface portion and opening one another to become a first departure surface and a second departure surface in said departure portion,

wherein said contact interface portion and said departure portion vary in accordance with a movement of said first seal face and/or said second seal face, and

wherein said first seal face and/or said second seal face are allowed to make a relative movement on a fulcrum of contact interface portion.

3. A seal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first seal face and said second seal face are located at more distal positions from said first bight portion and said second bight portion, respectively, than said joint base.

4. A seal device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first seal portion and said second seal portion are integrally constructed by inflecting a nickel-based alloy sheet or heat resistive alloy sheet.