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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
SMC Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
9211 / ; 92 / ; 92111 ; 92 8 / ; 9216 / ;
Abstract
A cylinder apparatus includes a base plate, a piston fixed to the base plate and having a piston head and a piston rod connected thereto, a cylinder body having a cylinder chamber defined on one side of the piston head and a cylinder chamber defined on another side of the piston head around the piston rod, the cylinder body being supported for reciprocating movement with respect to the base plate in axial directions of the piston, an upper plate fixed to the cylinder body, and a bushing held in slidable contact with an outer circumferential wall surface of the cylinder body for guiding the reciprocating movement of the cylinder body.