Patent 10012316 was granted and assigned to Shimadzu Corp. on July, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A slide valve comprises: a casing having a pair of facing flow channels; a slide plate inserted into and removed from a space between the flow channels; and an annular sealing body slidingly moving in a facing direction of the flow channels inside the casing and coming into contact with the slide plate inserted between the flow channels to bring the slide valve into a closed state. A first sealing member sealing a gap between the sealing body and the inner peripheral wall surface is disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the annular sealing body and a second sealing member sealing a gap between the sealing body and the outer peripheral wall surface is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the annular sealing body.