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AssigneesSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated
InventorsMichihiko Watanabe, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Kimiyoshi Matsuo, Shoichi Honjo, Tomoo Mimura, Terumitsu Aiba
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To provide a thermal insulation piping with no radially projecting part from a periphery thereof, so as to facilitate insertion of the thermal insulation piping into a pipeline or equivalent. In a thermal insulation tube 10 having a vacuum layer between an inner tube 11 and an outer tube 12, an evacuation port 30 for vacuum evacuation is oriented parallel with a longitudinal direction of the thermal insulation piping at an end of the thermal insulation tube 10. This construction can produce the thermal insulation tube 10 with no radially projecting part from a periphery thereof, thus providing improved workability when the thermal insulation piping is contained in the pipeline or equivalent. Further, a flexible pipe(s) 40 is/are preferably connected to the evacuation port(s) 30. This can allow increased positional tolerances in the connection of the evacuation port(s) to a vacuum evacuation device.
A thermal insulation piping having a vacuum layer between an inner tube and an outer tube, wherein an evacuation port used for vacuum evacuation is oriented parallel with a longitudinal direction of the thermal insulation piping at an end thereof, and wherein the inner and outer tubes are in the form of a corrugated tube, and a straight double tube is interposed between an end of the evacuation port and an end of the thermal insulation piping, and wherein the straight inner tube of the double tube is connected to the corrugated inner tube in accordance with a minimum diameter of the corrugated inner tube, and the straight outer tube is connected to the corrugated outer tube in accordance with a maximum diameter of the corrugated outer tube.
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