摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiple-way valve which can suppress increase of a torque needed for rotating a valve body when liquid pressure is applied, and to provide a hot-water storage type hot-water supply machine. <P>SOLUTION: The multiple-way valve includes: a body 210 where a plurality of ports (202, 204); the valve body 230 provided to be rotatable in the body 210 and having a flow path 231 formed therein; seal members (215, 217, 225, 227) which seal the gap between the valve body 230 and the ports; and a communication path (230b) which makes a closed space 260 surrounded by the body 210, the valve body 230 and the seal members communicate with the flow path 231 inside the valve body 230, or any one of the ports. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |