Fluid monitoring assembly with sensor functionality

A technology of sensors and sensor bases, applied in the direction of measuring instrument components, liquid/fluid solid measurement, equipment with stored calibration coefficients, etc., can solve problems such as increasing dead volume

Active Publication Date: 2016-12-14
REPLIGEN CORP
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This integrated conduit section increases the dead volume where unwanted product may remain

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[0039] figure 1 One embodiment of a fluid monitoring assembly 10 is shown, according to one embodiment. The fluid monitoring assembly 10 includes a sensor 12 that is removably insertable within a catheter 14 . The conduit 14 may be designed as a length of unreinforced tubing in which a lumen 18 is defined by the walls of the conduit 14 . Fluid monitoring assembly 10 further includes a two-part housing 16 for enclosing conduit 14 and enclosing at least a portion of sensor 12 when sensor 12 is installed therein. The two-part housing 16 acts as a sleeve surrounding the conduit 14 and the portion of the sensor 12 contained therein. The two-part housing or sleeve 16 defines an exoskeleton-type structure that surrounds the unreinforced polymeric catheter 14 and prevents the unreinforced polymeric catheter 14 from failing under high fluid pressure (e.g., bursting or arterial formation in the catheter). tumor-type bumps). Fluid monitoring assembly 10 can handle very high fluid pre...

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A fluid monitoring assembly includes a conduit having a wall defining a lumen for carrying fluid. A sensor mount is integrally formed with the wall of the conduit and extends generally transverse with respect to a longitudinal axis of the conduit, the sensor mount including an aperture defining an inner surface extending to the lumen. The assembly includes a sensor configured to be removably secured within the sensor mount, the sensor having an elongate body terminating at one end thereof in a sensing portion, the elongate body having a male projection on a portion thereof and configured to rest within the inner surface of the sensor mount. The assembly further includes a housing having first and second portions connected to one another, the housing defining an interior portion configured to encapsulate the conduit, at least a portion of the elongate body of the sensor, and the sensor mount.

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[0001] related application [0002] This application claims priority to US Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 61 / 928,905, filed January 17, 2014, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Claim priority under Title 35 USC Section 119. Field of the invention [0003] The field of the invention relates generally to fluid monitoring devices, in particular to sections of conduits or pipes that incorporate sensor functionality. More specifically, the present invention relates to connectors, valves or interfaces used by pharmaceutical and biological applications or other sanitation industries in which sensors are included. Background technique [0004] Many commercial products are manufactured using chemical and biological processes. For example, scale-up reactors and other equipment to manufacture commercial quantities of drugs. So-called biologics are drugs or other compounds that are manufactured or isolated from living organisms such as cells or tiss...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G01N11/02
CPCG01F15/14G01L19/144G01D11/30G01D18/008G01N11/02G01D11/245G01N27/07
Inventor 迈克尔·C·加涅史蒂文·V·凯茨迪安·理查森斯科特·本多尼
Owner REPLIGEN CORP
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