Pipe connector and pipe-connected embedded box including same
View Patent ↗The present invention relates to a pipe connector and a pipe-connected embedded box including the same. The pipe connector comprises a connector body and an insert object. The connector body has: a first fluid channel formed along a first fluid channel axis line; a second fluid channel formed along a second fluid channel axis line which does not intersect with the first fluid channel axis line; a first connection part through which a first external pipe is connected to the first fluid channel along the first fluid channel axis line; and a second connection part through which a second external pipe is connected to the second fluid channel along the second fluid channel axis line, and the insert object has: a first connection fluid channel that is embedded in the connector body, has a first opening that is open toward the interior of the first fluid channel through the side wall of the first fluid channel, and extends in a horizontal direction to the first fluid channel axis line; and a second connection fluid channel that bends and extends from the first connection fluid channel and has a second opening that is open along the second fluid channel axis line. As described above, the present invention provides the pipe connector having the non-intersecting fluid channels which can be manufactured through injection molding of a single plastic material. In addition, the present invention provides a space-efficient and slim pipe-connected embedded box using the pipe connector having the non-intersecting fluid channels.
1. A pipe connector comprising:
a connector body having a tubular shape and including a first fluid channel extending in a first fluid channel axial line of the connector body and a second fluid channel extending in a second fluid channel axial line of the connector body, wherein the first fluid channel axial line and the second fluid channel axial line are displaced from each other so as not to cross each other, and the first fluid channel and the second fluid channel are in fluid communication with each other and do not cross each other; and
an insert object having a tubular shape and received in an inner space of the connector body, the insert object defining a first connection fluid channel and a second connection fluid channel serially connected, in angular relation, to each other, and the insert object including a first opening at a proximal end of the a first connection fluid channel, and a second opening at a distal end of the second connection fluid channel,
wherein the first opening of the insert object is connected to and open through a side wall of the first fluid channel of the connector body in fluid communication thereto,
wherein the second opening of the insert object is open along the second fluid channel axial line and connected to the second fluid channel of the connector body in fluid communication thereto.
2. The pipe connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second opening has a rotation stopping shaped part having a non-circular shape in at least a partial circumferential region with respect to a center of the axis.
3. The pipe connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first opening includes a curved cut-off end matching with an inner wall surface of the first fluid channel.
4. The pipe connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first connection fluid channel has a thickness greater than a thickness of the second connection fluid channel.
5. The pipe connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein a reinforcing rib is formed at least any one of an external wall and an internal wall of the first connection fluid channel.
6. The pipe connector according to claim 1 , wherein the first connection fluid channel and the second connection fluid channel are arranged at an acute angle relative to each other.
7. A pipe-connected embedded box comprising:
the pipe connector according to claim 1 .
8. A pipe-connected embedded box comprising:
the pipe connector according to claim 2 .
9. A pipe-connected embedded box comprising:
the pipe connector according to claim 3 .
10. A pipe-connected embedded box comprising:
the pipe connector according to claim 4 .
11. A pipe-connected embedded box comprising:
the pipe connector according to claim 5 .
12. A pipe-connected embedded box comprising:
the pipe connector according to claim 6 .