52results about How to "Avoid dead volume" patented technology

A quick connect coupling including male and female elements that are adapted to fit axially in each other and each includes a valve that is displaced to an open position by engagement by a fixed pusher part of each element when they are being fitted together. The female element is provided with a locking member in which a part of the male element is received and which is reciprocally movable in a radial direction with respect to an axis of fit of the elements between two positions in which the locking member respectively allows or opposes the separation of the male and female elements and wherein the engaging surfaces of the valves and pusher parts is such that no open volumes or voids are created therein in which a liquid may collect during assembly or disassembly of the male and female elements.

A device for expressing human breast milk has a breast shield for bearing against a mother's breast, a vacuum pump for generating a vacuum, a line which connects the vacuum pump to the breast shield and is intended for transmitting the vacuum generated to the breast shield, and a chamber. The line ends on the pump side in a first port of the chamber. The chamber has a second port for connection to a milk collecting container. The two ports in the chamber are connected to each other in terms of fluid communication. During the expressing operation, the line forms a milk line for transporting breast milk expressed in the breast shield to the chamber and from the chamber to the milk collecting container. The pump can be designed to be quiet and small.

The invention relates to a device (1) for filling at least one container (100) with a filling product (110). The device (1) comprises a stationary product tank (2) for receiving the filling product (110), and a rotatable rotor (3) which is connected to a filling element (30) for filling the at least one container (100) with the filling product (110). The rotor (3) is rotatably connected to a line (4) for feeding the filling product (110) to the filling element (30). The line (4) is led into the stationary product tank (2) to direct the filling product (110) of the stationary product tank (2) to the filling element (30).

A sealed flange joint for high pressure and / or high purity fluid channels includes a first flange with a first fluid channel and a cylindrical front cavity. The front cavity is axially delimited by a ground surface and radially by a peripheral surface. The first fluid channel passes axially through the first flange to open into the ground surface. A polymer seal ring has a radial outer surface and a radial inner surface, and is fitted into the cylindrical front cavity so that its radial outer surface engages the peripheral surface of the front cavity. A second flange is removably fixed onto the first flange, and has a second fluid channel in axial continuation of the first fluid channel. The second flange has an axially protruding cylindrical front nipple with a conical head, the second fluid channel axially opening into an end surface of the conical head. The conical head engages the radial inner surface of the seal ring to radially press the latter with its radial outer surface against the peripheral surface of the front cavity.

The invention discloses a long-path optical fiber-microfluidic chip sensor for detecting absorbance and refraction index, which comprises a microfluidic chip made of a transparent material. A detection passage, an incident optical fiber passage and an emergent optical fiber passage are arranged in the microfluidic chip. The detection passage is provided with a sample inlet, a sample outlet, a light incidence port and a light emergence port. The detection passage is arranged between the incident optical fiber passage and the emergent optical fiber passage. The detection passage, the incident optical fiber passage and the emergent optical fiber passage are mutually isolated. Emergent light from the incident optical fiber passage is absorbed by a sample in the detection passage, is reflected by the inner wall surface of a side wall and then shoots into the emergent optical fiber passage. The incident optical fiber passage and the emergent optical fiber passage are respectively matched with optical fibers which are arranged in the incident optical fiber passage and the emergent optical fiber passage. The end surface of the emergent ends of the optical fibers in the incident optical fiber passage and the end surface of the light emergence port of the incident optical fiber passage are on the same level. The end surface of the emergent ends of the optical fibers in the emergent optical fiber passage and the end surface of the light incidence port of the emergent optical fiber passage are at the same level. The long-path optical fiber-microfluidic chip sensor for detecting absorbance and refraction index can realize high-sensitivity biochemical sensing at low sample consumption.

A plug unit and system for connecting capillary tubes, especially for high-performance liquid chromatography, with a plug capillary tube projecting through a hole of a plug housing, which is detachably connectable to a bushing unit. The plug capillary tube front end projects into a capillary tube receptacle in the bushing unit with its end face essentially aligned opposite a front end of a bushing capillary tube or a bushing capillary tube opening of the bushing unit, the end face of which is butted against. The plug housing applies a force, with its end face facing the plug capillary tube end, directly or indirectly on an annular sealing element surrounding the plug capillary tube in the region of the front end of the plug capillary tube such that the front end of the plug capillary tube is sealed through deformation of the sealing element against the capillary tube receptacle opening.

An apparatus and method for fabricating a semiconductor device using a 4-way valve with improved purge efficiency by improving a gas valve system by preventing dead volume from occurring are provided. The apparatus includes a reaction chamber in which a substrate is processed to fabricate a semiconductor device; a first processing gas supply pipe supplying a first processing gas into the reaction chamber; a 4-way valve having a first inlet, a second inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet and installed at the first processing gas supply pipe such that the first inlet and the first outlet are connected to the first processing gas supply pipe; a second processing gas supply pipe connected to the second inlet of the 4-way valve to supply a second processing gas; a bypass connected to the second outlet of the 4-way valve; and a gate valve installed at the bypass.

A method and system for switching atmosphere smoothly and quickly and its application, which can solve the problem that the existing reversing valve system cannot replace the atmosphere in the microreactor smoothly and quickly, thereby affecting the reliability, repeatability and accuracy of the analysis process . The airflow reversing unit of the present invention quickly switches the intake airflow flowing to the downstream; the inlet pressure controller and the pressure transmitter jointly control the pressure difference between the intake airflows to be close to zero, so that the switching process is smooth and fast. The invention can realize the smooth and rapid switching of the component concentration of the downstream airflow in a manner close to the ideal rectangular wave. The invention can be applied to analyze the multi-stage in-situ reaction process of solid particles based on atmosphere switching; and quantitatively characterize the diffusion and back-mixing of the gas flow in the microreactor.