IP Library Granted Patent US 7,988,770
Granted Patent B2
US 7,988,770 · App. 11/995,832 · Granted Aug 2, 2011

Gas adsorbing device, vacuum heat insulator making use of gas adsorbing device and process for producing vacuum heat insulator

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Patent No.
US 7,988,770
App. No.
11/995,832
Granted
Aug 2, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A jacket material into which a gas adsorbing device and core material are inserted is decompressed in a vacuum chamber, the opening is sealed, and then the jacket material is exposed to the atmosphere. In the atmospheric pressure, a pressure of about 1 atm which is equivalent to the pressure difference between the inside and outside is applied to the jacket material of the heat insulator. The jacket material is made of a plastic laminated film and is deformed by pressure. A protruding portion is plunged into a container to drill through holes, and a gas adsorbent in the container communicates with the inside of the jacket material. Thus, both during holding and in applying to the vacuum heat insulator, the gas adsorbent can be applied to the vacuum heat insulator without degradation, and the high degree of vacuum can be kept for a long time.

Claims (19)

1. A gas adsorbing device at least comprising:

a first sealable container including a gas adsorbent;

a protrusion adjacent to the first container, and

a second sealable container including the first container and the protrusion, the second container being flexible and deformed by pressure,

wherein the second container is vacuum-sealed, and the second container is deformed by a pressure difference between an inside and an outside of the second container so that the protrusion produces a through hole in the first container by the deformation and the gas adsorbent communicates with an inside of the second container through the through hole.

2. The gas adsorbing device of claim 1 , wherein

the first container is obtained by forming one of a film and a sheet in a bag shape, the film and the sheet having gas barrier property.

3. The gas adsorbing device of claim 1 , wherein

the first container is a plastic molded body having gas barrier property.

4. The gas adsorbing device of claim 3 , wherein

an opening is disposed in part of the first container, the opening is covered with an elastic body partition, and the protrusion is adjacent to the partition.

5. The gas adsorbing device of claim 3 , wherein

an opening is disposed in part of the first container, the opening is covered with a film having gas barrier property, and the protrusion is adjacent to the film.

6. The gas adsorbing device of claim 1 , wherein

the protrusion is fixed via a plate-like member, and hence a protruding portion of the protrusion is arranged in a two-dimensional plane shape.

7. The gas adsorbing device of claim 6 , wherein

distance between the protruding portion of the protrusion and the plate-like member is shorter than thickness of the first container.

8. The gas adsorbing device of one of claim 1 through claim 7 , wherein

the gas adsorbent is CuZSM-5.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 11, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021818/0725 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 25, 2008
From: HASHIDA, MASAMICHI; UEKADO, KAZUTAKA; YUASA, AKIKO
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 020860/0143 →