System for treating fluids

US7080666B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Josef Burger · Herbrazhofen, DE
• Oliver Heel · Amberg, DE
• Astrid Lohf · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 21, 2004
• Grant date: Jul 25, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/87885
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for processing fluids, the system having a unit (1) for supplying and discharging the fluids. The unit has a plurality of fluid lines terminating in a plurality of fluid ports, an assembly side (3) with the plurality of fluid ports terminating therein. The system also has at least one device (4) in which at least one of the fluids is processed. The at least one device is operable to be mounted on the assembly side and further operable to be coupled to the plurality of fluid ports (11, 12, 13, 14). The at least one device has a plurality of components (29, 30, 31) performing a plurality of functions related to the processing of the at least one of the fluids. The components are mounted on the assembly side in superimposed planes. The fluid ports supply and discharging the fluids to and from the components. The fluid ports have different lengths and extend from the assembly side (3) to at least one of the components (29, 30).