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US 7,677,578 B2Granted
Seal structure
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorArata Taguchi
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Abstract
A seal structure includes a first member including a first joint surface and a flat third joint surface; a second member including a second joint surface joined with the first joint surface, a flat fourth joint surface; and a third member including a fifth joint surface joined, through a liquid seal, with the flat third and fourth joint surfaces. At least the second member includes a recessed portion. The fifth joint surface includes a flat region and a chamfered region which is recessed from the flat region and which confronts the recessed portion.
Claims17
A seal structure comprising:
- a first member including a first joint surface and a flat third joint surface forming a corner with the first joint surface;
- a second member joined with the first member, the second member including a second joint surface joined with the first joint surface of the first member, a flat fourth joint surface forming a corner with the second joint surface, and a recessed portion formed in the corner between the second and fourth joint surfaces;
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- a third member joined with the first and second members, the third member including a fifth joint surface joined, through a liquid seal, with the flat third joint surface of the first member and the flat fourth joint surface of the second member, the fifth joint surface including a flat region and a chamfered region which is recessed from the flat region of the fifth joint surface and which confronts the recessed portion of the second member, the fifth joint surface extending from a first lateral edge to a second lateral edge in a widthwise direction which is perpendicular to a joining direction of the fifth joint surface with the third and fourth joint surfaces, the chamfered region being formed along one of the first and second lateral edges,
- wherein the third member further includes a projecting portion projecting from the chamfered region of the third member toward a space formed by the recessed portion of the second member,
- wherein the first member includes a recessed portion formed in the corner between the first and third joint surfaces, and
- wherein a length of the projecting portion is smaller than a length of a space formed by the recessed portion of the first member and the recessed portion of the second member.
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