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US 7,111,761 B2Granted
Fluid discharge pump and fluid container
OwnerMasatoshi Masudainventor
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Abstract
A fluid discharge pump comprises: an outer cover connected to an upper portion of the fluid-storing portion; a nozzle head provided with a fluid discharge nozzle; a bellows member disposed between the fluid-storing portion and the nozzle head; a first valve mechanism for inflow coupled with a lower end of the bellows member; a second valve mechanism for outflow coupled with an upper end of the bellows member; and a third valve mechanism for anti-leakage disposed between the nozzle and the second valve mechanism inside the nozzle head.
Claims9
A fluid discharge pump for discharging a fluid stored inside a fluid-storing portion, comprising:
- an outer cover being adapted to be connected to an upper portion of the fluid-storing portion and having a through-hole in its axis;
- a nozzle head being provided with a fluid discharge nozzle and being movable inside the cover in the axis;
- a first valve mechanism for inflow adapted to be connected to an opening of the upper portion of the fluid-storing portion;
- a second valve mechanism for outflow connected inside the nozzle head;
- a bellows member being connecting the first valve mechanism and the second valve mechanism and deforming from a stretched position to a folded-up position, thereby changing an amount of fluid in contact with and stored inside the bellows member, wherein when pressure inside the bellows member increases by downward movement of the nozzle head, the first valve mechanism closes and the second valve mechanism opens, and when pressure inside the bellows member decreases by upward movement of the nozzle head, the first valve mechanism opens and the second valve mechanism closes;
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- a third valve mechanism for anti-leakage disposed between the nozzle and the second valve mechanism inside the nozzle head, wherein when the second valve mechanism opens, the third valve mechanism opens, and when the second valve mechanism closes or is not in use, the third valve mechanism closes,
- wherein the third valve mechanism comprises:
- a tubular member connecting the nozzle and the second valve mechanism in the nozzle head and having a flexion flexed inward between the nozzle and the second valve mechanism;
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- a contact portion being disposed inside the tubular member and having an upper end fixed to the nozzle head and a lower end with an enlarged portion which has a diameter larger than an inner diameter of the flexion and is in contact with the flexion to close the flexion,
- wherein when the nozzle head descends, the contact portion moves relative to the tubular member to be detached from the flexion to open the flexion.
9 more elements
A fluid discharge pump for discharging a fluid stored inside a fluid-storing portion, comprising:
- a nozzle head disposed on an upper side of the fluid-storing portion, said nozzle head being pressed for discharging the fluid from the fluid-storing portion;
- a bellows member having an inflow opening and an outflow opening and deforming from a stretched position in which the bellows member holds a relatively large amount of fluid therein to a folded-up position in which the bellows member holds a relatively small amount of fluid therein when compressed by the nozzle head;
- a resinous inflow valve mechanism coupled with the inflow opening of the bellows member;
- a resinous outflow valve mechanism coupled with the outflow opening of the bellows member and capable of moving relatively to the nozzle head;
- a tubular member having a first supporting portion coupled with the nozzle head, a second supporting portion coupled with the outflow valve mechanism, and a tubular coupling portion in which a flexion is formed and which couples the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion in a position in which momentum is given in a direction of the supporting portions separating from each other;
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- a contacting portion having a joined portion, one end of which is coupled with the nozzle head and which is inserted into the flexion of the tubular member, and a lid portion formed at the other end of the joined portion and contacting a surface of the flexion in the coupling portion of the tubular member,
- wherein the flexion in the tubular member and the lid portion in the contacting member separate from each other and a fluid flow path is formed, when the nozzle head descends against the outflow valve mechanism.
5 more elements
A fluid container comprising a fluid discharge pump for letting a fluid stored inside a fluid-storing portion flow out from a nozzle head disposed on an upper side of the fluid-storing portion by pressing the nozzle head in a pressing direction, said nozzle head comprising:
- a tubular member having an inflow portion for letting the fluid flow in from the fluid discharge pump and an outflow portion for letting the fluid having flowed in from the inflow portion flow out, which is switchable between an open position enabling the fluid to pass through between the inflow portion and the fluid discharge pump and a closed position shutting off the fluid passing through between the inflow portion and the fluid discharge pump, wherein the open position and the closed position are switchable by rotating the tubular member on its axis which is perpendicular to the pressing direction;
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- a guiding member having a guiding portion roratably supporting the tubular member and guiding a switchover between the open position and the closed position of the tubular member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.