US 12,392,440 B2
Welded body
Hitoshi Imamura, Osaka (JP); Eri Mukai, Osaka (JP); Hiroyuki Hamada, Osaka (JP); Yuuki Kuwajima, Osaka (JP); and Manabu Fujisawa, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/701,246.
Application 17/701,246 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/029885, filed on Aug. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-172557 (JP), filed on Sep. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0213996 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. B29C 65/00 (2006.01); B29K 27/12 (2006.01); B29L 23/00 (2006.01); C08F 214/26 (2006.01); C08L 27/18 (2006.01); F16L 47/02 (2006.01); B29K 27/18 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 47/02 (2013.01) [B29C 66/1142 (2013.01); B29C 66/5221 (2013.01); B29C 66/5229 (2013.01); B29C 66/73921 (2013.01); C08L 27/18 (2013.01); B29K 2027/12 (2013.01); B29K 2027/18 (2013.01); B29L 2023/22 (2013.01); C08F 214/262 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A welded tube comprising a connecting structure formed by welding a first molded body and a second molded body,
wherein the first and second molded bodies contain a tetrafluoroethylene/fluoro (alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer, wherein the number of functional groups of the copolymer is 50 or less per 106 carbon atoms, and a content of the fluoro (alkyl vinyl ether) unit in the tetrafluoroethylene/fluoro (alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer is 3.3 to 12.0% by mass based on a total amount of monomer units, and
wherein the first molded body is a tube with an outer diameter of 2 to 100 mm and a wall thickness of 0.1 to 10 mm, and the second molded body is a tube or a joint,
the connecting structure has a liquid contact surface to be in contact with a liquid having a solubility parameter of 14 to 35 (MPA)1/2,
the liquid contact surface forms an inner surface of the welded tube,
a welded part formed in the connecting structure is formed by heating from an opposite side of the liquid contact surface, and the welded part is not exposed at the liquid contact surface, and
the number of particles of 30 nm or larger eluted into an isopropyl alcohol from the liquid contact surface in the connecting structure is 1,000 particles/mL or less when the welded tube is filled with the isopropyl alcohol in an amount equal to the inner volume of the welded tube and left to stand for one day at room temperature,
wherein the isopropyl alcohol at the time of being filled into the inner volume of the welded tube has a number of particles having a size of 30 nm or larger of 30 particles/ml or less.