Patent ID: 7021673
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: F16L,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A hose with a corrugated metal tube, comprising: a hose body having an inner layer including a corrugated metal tube and an outer layer including a reinforced layer and circumscribing a radial outer side of the inner layer, the corrugated metal tube being provided with a flattened end portion on one axial end portion thereof; a socket fitting fitted on the hose body at an end portion thereof corresponding generally to said flattened end portion, and compressed or swaged radially inwardly to be secured thereto; a proximal end of said flattened end portion extends axially away in the direction of the complete corrugations of said corrugated tube from a swaged point of the socket fitting that is axially most proximate to said proximal end; and an axial distance between the proximal end of the flattened end portion and the swaged point most proximate thereto being at a minimum 10 mm.