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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:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takayuki Sawada, Toride, JP;
Assignee:
SMC Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
92 / ; 9211 / ; 92107 ; 92111 ; 92164 ; 9216 / ;
Abstract
A cylinder device includes a casing with a pair of fluid inlet/outlet ports defined therein, a base plate, a piston fixed to the base plate, a cylinder, and a top plate. The cylinder device also has first, second, and third cylinder chambers defined in the cylinder between the base plate, the piston, and the top plate, a first fluid passage and a second fluid passage through which one of the fluid inlet/outlet ports communicates with the first and third cylinder chambers, and a third fluid passage and a fourth fluid passage through which the other fluid inlet/outlet port communicates with the second cylinder chamber.