Closing structure for tube member and engine provided therewith
AssigneeKawasaki Motors, Ltd.
InventorsGoki Takano, Kazuki Masui, Derek Pauls, Matt Schultz
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Abstract
A closing structure includes: a fluid reservoir for storing a fluid; a tube member having a mouth end surface at a tip in an axial direction of the tube member, the tube member having an inside communicating with the fluid reservoir; a gasket configured to be disposed on the mouth end surface of the tube member; an end cap configured to: (i) be attached to the tube member; and (ii) close the tube member at the mouth end surface of the tube member through the gasket; and a clamping piece fixed to the end cap, the clamping piece being configured to clamp the gasket between the clamping piece and the end cap.
Claims18
A closing structure comprising:
- a fluid reservoir for storing a fluid;
- a tube member having a mouth end surface at a tip in an axial direction of the tube member, the tube member having an inside communicating with the fluid reservoir;
- a gasket configured to be disposed on the mouth end surface of the tube member in the axial direction of the tube member;
- an end cap configured to:
- (i) be attached to the tube member;
- and (ii) close the tube member at the mouth end surface of the tube member through the gasket;
- and
- a clamping piece fixed to the end cap,
- wherein:
- the gasket is clamped in an axial direction of the end cap by the end cap and the clamping piece;
- the gasket includes:
- (i) a closing portion configured to be sandwiched between the mouth end surface of the tube member and the end cap in a state where the end cap closes the tube member;
- and (ii) a detachment prevention portion configured to be clamped between the clamping piece and the end cap in the state where the end cap closes the tube member;
- and
- the closing portion and the detachment prevention portion do not overlap with each other when viewed from the axial direction of the end cap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.