US 12,422,080 B2
Elbow pipe joint
Kenta Kuwayama, Aichi-ken (JP); and Masayuki Miyamura, Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Aichi-pref. (JP)
Filed by TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Kiyosu (JP)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/509,792.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-184532 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0167603 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. F16L 37/40 (2006.01); F16L 37/14 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 37/40 (2013.01) [F16L 37/144 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An elbow pipe joint, comprising:
a first pipe connecting portion having a tubular shape, and configured to allow another joint to be connected;
a second pipe connecting portion having a tubular shape, and having a second central axis intersecting a first central axis of the first pipe connecting portion;
a valve accommodating portion having a hollow shape, connected to the first pipe connecting portion and the second pipe connecting portion, and having a valve accommodating space that communicates with a first inner hole of the first pipe connecting portion and a second inner hole of the second pipe connecting portion; and
a flap valve device accommodated in the valve accommodating portion, and configured to pivot to switch between a valve open state in which the first inner hole and the second inner hole communicate with each other and a valve closed state in which the first inner hole and the second inner hole are blocked from each other,
wherein the flap valve device includes:
a valve seat member having a bottomed tubular shape, including a bottom portion in which an opening is formed, and having a central axis parallel to the first central axis, the bottom portion being disposed to be in contact with the valve accommodating space;
a valve body configured to pivot about a rotation axis orthogonal to both the first central axis and the second central axis, the valve body implementing the valve closed state by sealing the opening, and implementing the valve open state by opening the opening; and
an elastic member configured to urge the valve body to seal the opening,
wherein the valve body includes a pressing portion exposed to an inner space of the valve seat member, which communicates with the first inner hole in the valve closed state, the pressing portion being pressed in a direction parallel to the first central axis by the another joint inserted into the first inner hole and connected to the first pipe connecting portion,
wherein the pressing portion is provided on the valve body at a side closer to the rotation axis in a direction parallel to the second central axis, and
wherein the opening is formed in the bottom portion such that a third central axis of the opening is parallel to the first central axis, and is positioned farther from the rotation axis along the direction parallel to the second central axis than the first central axis.