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Metering unit

US8556597B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

BUERKERT WERKE GMBH · DE

Inventors

Thomas Hamm · Ingelfingen, DE
Christoph Hettinger · Ingelfingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 18, 2010
Grant date	Oct 15, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 19, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T137/85986
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A highly precise and extremely compact metering unit for fluid media has a pump, two valves, and a fluid communication base with two ports, pump and valve channels, and a pump chamber. The pump is mounted on the pump chamber. The pump channels communicate with the pump chamber and the valves. The valve channels communicate with the valves and the ports. The pump and the two valves are arranged one beside the other on the same side of the fluid communication base.

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