Gas-liquid separator
AssigneesUsui Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsunobu Suzuki, Hidetaka Ito
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Abstract
A gas-liquid separator includes a cylindrical inlet pipe and a fluid inflow pipe. The inlet pipe includes a fluid inlet which is formed in a fluid entering side and radially opens. An axis line of the inlet pipe horizontally extends. The fluid inflow pipe includes at an end a connection opening connected to the fluid inlet. An axis line of the fluid inflow pipe horizontally extends. The fluid inflow pipe introduces the gas-liquid two-phase fluid through the fluid inlet from a side of the inlet pipe. In a connecting portion, a position of an axis line extending through a center of a connection opening in communication with the fluid inlet is vertically offset with respect to a position of the axis line of the inlet pipe.
Claims9
A gas-liquid separator for separating a liquid and a gas from a gas-liquid two-phase fluid by swirling the gas-liquid two-phase fluid, the gas-liquid separator comprising:
- a cylindrical inlet pipe horizontally extending and comprising:
- a fluid inlet formed on a circumference surface upstream in a flow direction of the gas-liquid two-phase fluid;
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- a drain port formed at an end portion downstream in the flow direction of the gas-liquid two-phase fluid, the liquid exiting through the drain port;
- an inner pipe comprising an opening formed at an end, the end of the inner pipe inserted into the end portion of the inlet pipe downstream in the flow direction of the gas-liquid two-phase fluid and the inner pipe being coaxial with the inlet pipe;
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- a fluid inflow pipe horizontally extending and comprising a connecting portion connected to the fluid inlet at an end thereof, the fluid inflow pipe configured to supply the gas-liquid two-phase fluid into the inlet pipe through the fluid inlet from a side of the inlet pipe,
- wherein the connecting portion comprises a connection opening in communication with the fluid inlet, and
- wherein a position of an axis line extending through a center of the connection opening is vertically offset with respect to a position of an axis line of the inlet pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.