Methods for moving a filter along a manifold assembly; filter arrangements including a filter and a manifold assembly; and filters

US9757670B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Pall Corporation · US

Inventors

• Vincent Lam · Austin, US
• Jacob P. Vanderheyden · Saint Paul, US
• Mark W. Foohey · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2013
• Grant date: Sep 12, 2017
• Expiry date: Feb 6, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

To move a filter along a manifold assembly the filter may be seated on a moveable shuttle assembly. Seating the filter on the shuttle assembly may include mating a key portion on the filter with a key portion on the shuttle assembly, each key portion corresponding to a filtration characteristic of the filter. The shuttle assembly and the seated filter may then be moved between a first position, wherein the key portions of the filter and the shuttle assembly are mated to one another and first and second fittings of the filter are spaced from first and second fittings of the manifold assembly, and a second position, wherein the key portions of the filter and the shuttle assembly are mated to one another and the first and second fittings of the filter sealingly engage the first and second fittings of the manifold assembly.