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US 10,273,871 B2Granted
Air intake device and valve
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiyuki Oiwa, Kyohei Ninomiya, Masato Oishi
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Abstract
An air intake device includes: an air intake port; and a valve that includes an elastically deformable seal portion disposed in Ha side end portion, and switches between flow paths of the air intake port by being turned around a turning shaft, wherein the side end portion of the valve is provided with a curved side end portion that extends from one end portion side to the other end portion side along an extension direction of the turning shaft while being curved.
Claims6
An air intake device comprising:
- an air intake port;
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- a valve that includes an elastically deformable seal portion disposed in a side end portion, and switches between flow paths of the air intake port by being turned around a turning shaft,
- wherein the side end portion of the valve is provided with a curved side end portion that extends from one end portion side to the other end portion side along an extension direction of the turning shaft while being curved,
- wherein the valve further includes a valve body with a body side end portion in which the seal portion is disposed,
- wherein the seal portion includes 1) a fixing portion fixed to the valve body, 2) a restrict portion which protrudes from the fixing portion in a turning direction, 3) a first deformable portion that extends from the fixing portion while being separated from the valve body, 4) a second deformable portion that has a tapered shape and extends from the first deformable portion toward one side in the turning direction, and 5) a third deformable portion which extends from a side surface of the second deformable portion and forms an obtuse angle of less than 180 degrees with a first side of the side surface of the second deformable portion and an acute angle with a second side of the side surface of the second deformable portion,
- wherein a length of the second deformable portion in the turning direction is shorter than total lengths of the fixing portion and the restrict portion in the turning direction.
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A valve that can be turned around a turning shaft, the valve comprising:
- an elastically deformable seal portion that is disposed in a side end portion of the valve,
- wherein the side end portion of the valve is provided with a curved side end portion that extends from one end portion side to the other end portion side along an extension direction of the turning shaft while being curved,
- wherein the valve further includes a valve body with a body side end portion in which the seal portion is disposed,
- wherein the seal portion includes 1) a fixing portion fixed to the valve body, 2) a restrict portion which protrudes from the fixing portion in a turning direction, 3) a first deformable portion that extends from the fixing portion while being separated from the valve body, 4)a second deformable portion that has a tapered shape and extends from the first deformable portion toward one side in the turning direction, and 5) a third deformable portion which extends from a side surface of the second deformable portion and forms an obtuse angle of less than 180 degrees with a first side of the side surface of the second deformable portion and an acute angle with a second side of the side surface of the second deformable portion,
- wherein a length of the second deformable portion in the turning direction is shorter than total lengths of the fixing portion and the restrict portion in the turning direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.