Corrugated or pleated flat material

US8251231B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FSP Fluid Systems Partners Holding AG · CH

Inventors

• Andreas Schindelin · Stuttgart, DE
• Wolfram Schadt · Gondelsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 22, 2010
• Grant date: Aug 28, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 16, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/24694
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a corrugated or pleated flat material with a plurality of pleats or corrugations that run parallel to one another and successively define a pleat or corrugation peak and a pleat or corrugation valley, the peak and valley being connected to one another by way of a pleat or corrugation flank, wherein a fluid can flow through the flat material and the flat material has at least one deformable functional layer which rests on a supporting layer in the direction of throughflow of the fluid, said supporting layer comprising a supporting fabric, the functional layer allowing foreign substances to be removed from or delivered to the fluid. In order to develop the flat material in such a way that it has greater mechanical load-bearing capacity and lower resistance to throughflow, it is proposed according to the invention that the supporting fabric is deformable and comprises a twill weave. Furthermore, the use of a supporting fabric of this kind for providing support on the outflow side for a pleated or corrugated functional layer is proposed.