Abstract: A female coupling member includes a coupling member body having a fluid passage and being configured to receive a male coupling member from a front end thereof, and a valve member disposed in the coupling member body to traverse the fluid passage. The valve member has an opening and is displaceable between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the valve member communicates between a front end side and a rear end side of the fluid passage through the opening. In the closed position, the opening is located outside the fluid passage to close communication between the front end side and the rear end side of the fluid passage. The valve member has a purge passage configured to communicate with both the front end side of the fluid passage and the atmosphere outside the female coupling member when the valve member is in the closed position.

Abstract: Provided is a belt-type grinding tool allowing an endless grinding belt replacement operation to be performed without requiring a large force. A belt-type grinding tool has an endless grinding belt wound around a drive pulley provided in a tool body and an idler pulley rotatably supported by a pulley support bar. The grinding tool has a spring urging the pulley support bar forward relative to the tool body, thereby causing the idler pulley to press the endless grinding belt forward to apply a tension to the endless grinding belt, and a spring support member movably attached to the tool body to support and compress the spring, the spring support member being movable between a first position where the idler pulley applies a tension to the endless grinding belt and a second position where the spring support member is displaced from the first position to reduce the amount of compression of the spring to reduce the tension.

Abstract: In order to reduce a pressure loss in a check valve and simplify a manufacturing process, a check valve (10) configured to be disposed in piping of fluid is provided, which includes a valve housing (31) including a valve element (52) and a valve seat (54) therein, a casing (20) that is configured to place the valve housing therein, in which a casing flow path (60) is provided between the casing and the valve housing to make a flow of the fluid in an axial direction of the valve housing. In the valve housing, a communicating hole (38) and sealing portion (34) are formed. The communicating hole that is formed through the valve housing in a thickness direction thereof introduces the fluid, which flows through between the valve element and the valve seat at the open position of the check valve, into the casing flow path.

Abstract: A pipe joint coupling apparatus has first and second pipe joint members coupled to each other, a plate-shaped support member with an opening through which the first pipe joint member extends, and an elastic member accommodated in an annular groove formed in the outer surface of the first pipe joint member. The support member is clamped between a shoulder part formed on the outer surface of the first pipe member and a collar member disposed about the first pipe joint member such that the edge of the opening of the support member engages the elastic member. The width of the groove is greater than the width of the support member to allow the first pipe joint member to be radially displaced relative to the support member with the opening edge partially and radially entering into the annular groove while deforming the elastic member.

Abstract: A coupling member is provided that is readily separable from another coupling member even if frozen. A female coupling member has a coupling member fitting portion capable of receiving a male coupling member, a recess formed on an inner circumferential surface of the coupling member fitting portion and having an opening portion opening on the inner circumferential surface and a bottom portion, and a plurality of pliable members secured to the bottom portion and extending from the bottom portion to the opening portion so as to be capable of contacting an outer circumferential surface of the male coupling member.

Abstract: A pipe coupling apparatus for simultaneously connecting and locking together pipe couplings comprising a plurality of sockets and plugs. The pipe coupling apparatus includes a socket-side unit having a plurality of sockets and a plug-side unit having a plurality of plugs. Each socket is provided with locking elements, and each plug is provided with an engagement groove. When the plug is inserted into the socket, the locking elements enter the engagement groove. A sleeve is provided displaceably between a locking completion position where it holds the locking elements from coming out of the engagement groove to lock the socket and the plug to each other and a retracted position separated from the locking completion position. A locking confirmation plate is displaceable from a locking unconfirmed position to a locking confirmed position when all the sleeves are at the locking completion position, thereby allowing confirmation of the completion of locking.

Abstract: An air pump structured to facilitate the installation of a pair of pistons includes a casing (17) having a pair of cylinder chambers (14) slidably accommodating a pair of pistons (16), respectively, and a drive chamber accommodating electromagnets between the pair of cylinder chambers. The pump casing has mutually opposing side walls and a cylindrical peripheral wall defining the drive chamber. The side walls have circular cylindrical inner peripheral surfaces (28-1) of the cylinders defined therein, respectively. A piston assembly having the pistons connected to the opposite ends of an armature (34) is inserted into the pump casing through one of the cylindrical inner peripheral surfaces and installed therein. The peripheral wall has an electromagnet-loading opening (26-2) through which electromagnet pedestal members (26-7) and the electromagnets are inserted into the casing and secured therein.

Abstract: There is provided a coupling member readily separable from another member even if frozen. A female coupling member has a tubular coupling member fitting portion 22 receiving a male coupling member 14, a recess 22-2 formed on an inner circumferential surface 22-1 of the coupling member fitting portion and having an opening portion 22-4 opening on the inner circumferential surface 22-1 and a bottom portion 22-3, and a plurality of pliable members secured to the bottom portion to extend from the bottom portion to the opening portion so as to be capable of contacting an outer circumferential surface 14-3 of the male coupling member as fitted to the female coupling member.

Abstract: In an endless belt type grinding tool, a tension bar includes a front portion and a rear portion which are divided from each other in a tubular holding portion. The front portion and the rear portion forcibly abut against each other when the endless grinding belt wound around the drive pulley and the idle pulley is applied with a tension by the spring. The endless belt type grinding tool includes a locking member which, when the tension bar is pushed into the tubular holding portion against the spring, engages with the rear portion of the tension bar to retain the rear portion at the pushed position against the urging force of the spring. Thus, in a state in which the grinding belt is removed, it is possible to reduce damage even if the tension bar, which is being pushed in, accidentally jumps out.

Abstract: There is provided an air pump in which vibration noise generated in a drive unit of the pump is suppressed from being transmitted to the outside through a suction passage. A casing of the air pump has a suction port extending from an outer peripheral surface to inner peripheral surface of the casing, a noise reduction wall annularly formed on the outer peripheral surface of the casing such that the suction port opens in a region of the outer peripheral surface of the casing surrounded by the noise reduction wall, and a lid member closing the opening of the top of the noise reduction wall and cooperating with the noise reduction wall and the outer peripheral surface of the casing to define a noise reduction chamber communicating with the suction port. The noise reduction wall has an elongated noise reduction passage extending circumferentially in the noise reduction wall.

Abstract: A vane air motor is disclosed which is configured to prevent grease in a radial bearing from leaking into a rotor chamber. The vane air motor has a motor housing (20) having a rotor chamber, a rotor (22) with vanes (24) disposed in the rotor chamber, a first end wall (16) of the motor housing equipped with a radial bearing (50) rotatably supporting a support shaft portion (28) of the rotor, and a casing contiguously joined to the motor housing to form a compressed air supply chamber (44) together with the first end wall to supply compressed air into the rotor chamber through an air supply hole (46) formed in the first end wall. The first end wall has communication means (16-5, 16-6 and 16-7) for supplying compressed air from the compressed air supply chamber to the side of the first radial bearing closer to the rotor.

Abstract: A male coupling member is configured such that, even if a front end surface of a valve member is hit with a hammer, the valve member cannot bite into an opening surface of a coupling body. The male coupling member has a coupling body, a valve member, and a spring member. The valve member has a front end portion fitted into a front end opening of the coupling body, and a valve body. The front end portion has a circular front end surface, a front end annular surface having a smaller diameter than an opening surface of the coupling body, and a reduced-diameter surface having a smaller diameter than the front end annular surface.

Abstract: A drilling device having an oil supply tank disposed at a position where the oil supply tank is less likely to collide with surrounding objects. This device includes a fixing member (12) fixed to a workpiece, a column (14) extending upward from the fixing member, a tubular slide unit (16) that is slidable along the column, a tool body (18) disposed on the tubular slide unit, and an oil supply tank (20) provided between the tool body and the fixing member and removably fixed to the tubular slide unit. The tool body is provided with a cutting oil supply passage having a cutting oil inlet (109) disposed toward the fixing member, while the oil supply tank is provided with a cutting oil outlet disposed upward. The tool body is displaced upward on the column and the oil supply tank is moved close to the tool body from the lower side of the tool body, whereby the cutting oil outlet of the oil supply tank is connected to the cutting oil inlet of the tool body.

Abstract: An electromagnetic reciprocating fluid device in which a movable member is equipped with permanent magnets, resists a torque rotating the movable member about an axis thereof in the reciprocating direction. The electromagnetic reciprocating fluid device has a pair of electromagnets facing each other, and permanent magnets disposed in a space between the opposed electromagnets and held by a movable member. When an alternating current is applied to coils formed in the electromagnets, a magnetic force is generated between the electromagnets and the permanent magnets, whereby a driving force for reciprocation is applied to the movable member. One end of the movable member is connected to a piston of a first piston-cylinder assembly, while the other end is connected to a piston of a second piston-cylinder assembly.

Abstract: A socket that receives and locks a plug includes a cylindrical socket body having a plug-receiving part, a first through-hole, and a second through-hole rearward of the first through-hole, a plug-locking element movable in the first through-hole between a locking position for preventing the plug from being pulled out and an unlocking position for allowing the plug to be pulled out, a sleeve-operating element movable in the second through-hole, a sleeve provided around the socket body and urged to be displaceable in the longitudinal direction, and a collar urged in the socket body. The socket body has a guide portion located forward of the collar and adjacent to the forward end edge of the collar to prevent the forward end of the plug as inserted into the socket from engaging with the forward end surface of the collar and to guide the forward end of the plug into the collar.

Abstract: A vane air motor configured to prevent uneven wear of vanes is provided. The vane air motor has a cylindrical member having a rotor chamber (19) defined by a circular cylindrical inner peripheral surface (11), and a vaned rotor. A plurality of air discharge openings (50) are provided over a predetermined length range in the axial direction of the rotor chamber. Each pair of axially adjacent air discharge openings are spaced from each other and overlap each other as seen in the circumferential direction of the rotor chamber.

Abstract: A pneumatic tool which can be easily assembled. This pneumatic tool includes a tool housing and an air supply pipe. The tool housing includes a motor housing having a tubular wall, and a tubular air supply/exhaust portion connected to the side surface of the tubular wall and extending rearwardly of the pneumatic tool. The air supply pipe has a valve unit, and is inserted into and set in the air supply/exhaust portion. The air supply/exhaust portion has an air supply passage extending from the motor housing. When the air supply pipe is inserted into and fixed to the air supply/exhaust portion, the forward end portion of the air supply pipe is communicated with a rear end opening of the air supply passage of the air supply/exhaust portion, whereby a compressed air supply passage to an air motor is formed.

Abstract: A pipe coupling member for high-pressure fluid such as liquefied hydrogen includes a seal ring having a highly effective sealing function to prevent leakage of the fluid. The seal ring (72) is set in a seal ring setting space (39) defined by a second radial surface (36) and a seal ring setting surface (38) of a first tubular member (20), a forward end surface of a second tubular member (22), and the outer peripheral surface of a valve seat member (24). A forward end portion of the second tubular member (22) is provided with a communication hole (84) radially penetrating the forward end portion. The pressure of the high-pressure fluid on the downstream side of a valve seat surface (52) causes a fluid path in the second tubular member to be communicated with the sealing ring setting space (39) via the communication hole (84) and via a gap between the seal ring setting surface (38) and the outer peripheral surface of the forward end portion of the second tubular member.

Abstract: A rotationally driven air tool configured to be capable of retaining a lubricant in a gear of a rotation transmitting mechanism as long as possible has an air motor (14), a rotation transmitting mechanism (18) transmitting rotational driving force from a rotational output shaft (12) of the air motor to a rotary tool member (15), e.g. an abrasive disc, and a housing (28) having a motor chamber (20), a rotation transmitting chamber (22), a partition (24) between the motor chamber and the rotation transmitting chamber, and an air blow port (72) provided to extend through the partition to blow air discharged from the air motor toward a peripheral wall surface of the rotation transmitting chamber.

Abstract: An air pump has an air tank (20) for temporarily storing air from a pump unit (12) before discharging the air. The air tank has a tank body having a top wall (40) on which the pump unit is placed, and a peripheral wall (42) extending downward from the top wall. The tank body has a downward facing opening. The air tank further has a metallic bottom wall member (46) engaged with the bottom surface of the peripheral wall so as to close the opening of the tank body. Bolts are passed through the metallic bottom wall member and into a metallic part of the pump unit and tightened to connect and secure the pump unit and the air tank to each other.