Volumetric pump with spring-biased cracking valves

Details Volumetric pump with spring-biased cracking valves Volumetric pump with spring-biased cracking valves

1991-08-08

1992-10-27

Hepperle, Stephen M.

Pumps

Processes

417 63, 417479, 604153, F04B 700, F04B 1300

Patent

active

051584379

ABSTRACT:
A volumetric pump and method for displacing a predetermined quantity of fluid at a predefined cracking pressure, independent of supply and output pressures. The volumetric pump (30) includes an inlet cracking valve (46), an outlet cracking valve (52), and a plunger (48) for displacing fluid from a pumping portion (34b) of flexible tubing (34) that extends through the volumetric pump. The pumping portion of the flexible tube fills with liquid when the inlet cracking valve is fully opened and is urged to expand by jaws (236) on pivotally-mounted arms (234). The arms are forced to pivot, as tubing reshaper rollers (160), disposed on the plunger, roll along the inner surface (232) of each arm. During a pumpback-pressurization segment of the pumping cycle, the inlet cracking valve applies a cracking force to the flexible tubing, while the plunger compresses the pumping portion of the flexible tubing sufficiently to develop a cracking pressure that displaces excess fluid back through the inlet cracking valve toward a container (32). After the excess fluid been forced from the pumping portion of the flexible tubing, a pumping segment of the cycle begins, wherein the inlet cracking valve closes fully and the outlet cracking valve applies a cracking force to compress the flexible tubing. Fluid is then forced by the plunger from the pumping portion of the flexible tubing into a distal portion (34c). The volumetric pump compensates for variations in elasticity of the flexible tubing that would otherwise cause variations in the cracking pressure, using balance blocks (42 and 58). A volumetric pump (400) for use with a cassette (300) comprises a second embodiment of the volumetric pump, in which inlet and outlet cracking valves are defined in respect to the forces applied by actuators against a flexible membrane (340) in the cassette, while a plunger (326) displaces fluid from a pumping chamber (360) in the cassette. Volumetric pump (400) applies appropriate forces to an inlet valve actuator (318) and an outlet valve actuator (332) to achieve cracking and closure forces, just as in the first embodiment.

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