Sealing structure

• US 8,079,600 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2006
• Issued: 12/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NOK Corporation
• Original Assignee: NOK Corporation
• Inventors: Shojima, Daihachi, Nameki, Hideto
• Primary Examiner(s): Pickard, Alison
• Application Number:
  US11/919,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20090066038A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,945 Days
• Field of Search: 277/641, 277/643, 277/644, 277/587
• US Class Current: 277/644
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 15/062 characterised by the geometry of the seat

Abstract

A sealing structure in which sealing is made by a seal ring installed in a dovetail groove where only an inner surface on one side of the groove is an inclined surface. In the sealing structure, the seal ring is less likely to come out of the dovetail groove, resistance of insertion of the seal ring into the dovetail is small, and particles are less likely to occur in the structure. The seal ring is formed of a rubber-like elastic material and is installed in the dovetail groove where the first inner surface on one side of the groove is inclined falling to the inside of the groove.

Claims

1. A sealing structure comprising

a seal ring made of a rubber-like elastic material and said seal ring being installed in a dovetail groove, said dovetail groove including a first inner surface at one side of the dovetail groove, the first inner surface being inclined to extend toward an inside of the dovetail groove and a second inner surface of the dovetail groove being located opposite to the first inner surface, the first inner surface of the dovetail groove and the second inner surface of the dovetail groove extending from a flat bottom surface of the dovetail groove, the second inner surface of the dovetail groove extending perpendicular to the flat bottom surface of the dovetail groove, and

the seal ring including, at an insertion section to be inserted into the dovetail groove, a side projection surface coming into close contact with the first inner surface, a bottom surface coming into close contact with the flat bottom surface of the dovetail groove and the seal ring having a width (W₃) less than a groove width (W₁) between groove shoulders of the dovetail groove and a side upward-facing inclined surface of the seal ring coming into close contact with the second inner surface at the opposite side to the first inner surface,

a projection section of the seal ring being located between a flat bottom surface of the seal ring and the side upward-facing inclined surface of the seal ring, the projection section of the seal ring being configured to initially contact the second inner surface of the dovetail groove during insertion of the seal ring into the dovetail groove.

2. The sealing structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein an exposing section of the seal ring projected from the dovetail groove is coated or applied with an anti-tack material.

3. The sealing structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the projection section of the seal ring has a round or chamfered face.

4. The sealing structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first inner surface terminates in one of the groove shoulders and the second inner surface terminates in the other of the groove shoulders with the seal ring secured by the projection section engaged with the second inner surface and the seal ring simultaneously engaged with the one of the groove shoulders.