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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2004
Nobuo Katsuura, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuo Katsuura, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nix, Inc., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a convenient and highly reliable joint device which contains a small number of components by simplifying the coupling structure, which is small-sized and can be manufactured at low cost, which is leak-proof under a wide range of conditions, regardless of the degree of internal pressure, and which does not contaminate the liquid inside the joint device. Concerning the liquid sending and receiving joint device of this invention for connecting a liquid reservoir, which contains the liquid, with a liquid acceptorwhich receives the liquid from the liquid reservoir, an elastic memberorhaving at least a holeand a valvewith a flow path is provided at a joint part of either the liquid reservoir or the liquid acceptor, or both of them, wherein the valvefits in or engages with the hole