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Filter assemblies with adhesive attachment systems

US6419729B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 17, 2000
Grant dateJul 16, 2002
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Expiry dateApr 17, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S55/39
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Filter assemblies with adhesive attachment systems are provided. In one embodiment, a filter assembly includes a porous filter member and an adhesive disposed on a reinforcement scrim adhesively attached to at least a portion of at least one major surface of the porous filter member, wherein the reinforcement scrim has discrete open areas. In an alternative embodiment, a filter assembly includes a porous filter member that includes fibrous filter media and an adhesive impregnated into discrete regions of the porous filter member such that there is a substantially continuous adhesive region throughout at least about 25% of the thickness of the porous filter member in the discrete regions.

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