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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Toshikazu Saba, Yokkaichi, JP;

Yasuhiko Hamada, Shinjuku-ku, JP;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 7/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 7/700 ;
Abstract

Joint portions to which tubes are coupled are provided with a pair of connector portions which are engaged/disengaged in accordance with the engagement/disengagement of the joint portions , respectively. Further, a detection circuit is provided which detects the non-conduction state between terminals B provided at the connector portions , respectively. The detection circuit is arranged to output an alarm signal when the state between the terminal metal members is non-conductive. Thus, when one of the joint portions disengages, the corresponding one of the connector portions also disengages, so that the state between the terminal metal members becomes non-conductive and the alarm signal is generated.


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