Patent ID: 6866302

Claim:
A hose connecting structure for connecting a hose with corrugated metal tube to a mating pipe comprising: a hose body having a corrugated metal tube as inner layer and an outer layer circumscribing radially outer side thereof, a leading end side of the corrugated metal tube extending axially so as to be exposed out of the outer layer, a socket fitting fitted on an outer surface of an axial end portion of the hose body, a connecting pipe to which an axial end portion of the hose body is fixedly secured by securely compressing or swaging the socket fitting radially inwardly, the connecting pipe having a tip-end inner surface as an inner abutment surface flaring axially outwardly, a mating pipe having an outer abutment surface formed in a shape conforming to the inner abutment surface of the connecting pipe, and a fastening member fastening axially the connecting pipe to the mating pipe so that the inner abutment surface of the connecting pipe abuts the outer abutment surface of the mating pipe, the inner abutment surface and the outer abutment surface clamping the end portion of the leading end side of the corrugated metal tube which extends along an inner surface of the connecting pipe, the end portion of the corrugated metal tube being formed in a flared portion flaring corresponding to the inner abutment surface of the connecting pipe.