IP Library Granted Patent US 11,661,934
Granted Patent B2
US 11,661,934 · App. 16/318,954 · Granted May 30, 2023

Clamping device for a delivery device

Inventors: Lars Redschlag (Stuttgart, DE); Alois Krutzenbichler (Starnberg, DE); Raymond Ritschka (Weissach, DE); Jochen Baumann (Stuttgart, DE)
Assignee: QONQAVE GMBH
F04B43/12F04B43/084F04B43/086F04B43/1223F04B45/06F04B45/08
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Patent No.
US 11,661,934
App. No.
16/318,954
Granted
May 30, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A clamping device includes at least one clamp-in unit for clamping in at least one flexible-tube delivery element of a delivery device, wherein, for a delivery of a medium, a drive force is exertable on said flexible-tube delivery element by a drive unit of the delivery device, when the flexible-tube delivery element is arranged in the clamp-in unit, the clamp-in unit is configured to clamp the flexible-tube delivery element so that it is curved as a whole, and includes at least one clamping element, which includes a convex abutment element realizing an abutment surface for the flexible-tube delivery element, wherein the clamp-in unit includes at least the clamping element, which has at least one angled clamping surface, and which includes at least one adhesive element that is arranged on the clamping surface of the clamping element.

Claims (34)

1. A clamping device for a delivery device, comprising:

at least one clamp-in unit for clamping in at least one flexible-tube delivery element of the delivery device, wherein:

for a delivery of a medium, a drive force is exertable on said at least one flexible-tube delivery element by means of a drive unit of the delivery device, at least in a state when the at least one flexible-tube delivery element is arranged in the clamp-in unit,

the clamp-in unit is configured to clamp the at least one flexible-tube delivery element in such a way that it is curved as a whole, viewed in a cross section extending transversely to a delivery direction of the at least one flexible-tube delivery element,

the clamp-in unit comprises at least one clamping element, which differs from a drive element of the drive unit and which comprises a convex abutment element realizing an abutment surface for the at least one flexible-tube delivery element,

the at least one clamping element has at least one angled clamping surface,

the at least one clamping element comprises at least one adhesive element that is arranged on the at least one angled clamping surface of the at least one clamping element,

the clamp-in unit comprises at least one further clamping element that acts together with the at least one clamping element and delimits at least one concave recess, and

the at least one concave recess comprises at least one breakthrough through which the drive element of the drive unit at least partially engages the at least one flexible-tube delivery element.

2. The clamping device according to claim 1 , wherein

the convex abutment element comprises-a at least one further concave recess, at least in a partial region.

3. The clamping device according to claim 2 , wherein

viewed in a cross section extending transversely to the delivery direction of the at least one flexible-tube delivery element, the at least one further concave recess of the convex abutment element is delimited by three circular arc sections of the convex abutment element, which are arranged in a partial region of the convex abutment element and are directly subsequent to one another.

4. The clamping device according to claim 1 , wherein

the convex abutment element of the at least one clamping element at least partly engages the at least one concave recess in a state when the at least one clamping element and the at least one further clamping element are connected to one another.

5. The clamping device according to claim 1 , wherein

the at least one further clamping element comprises at least one further angled clamping surface, and

the least one further clamping element acts together with the at least one clamping element whereby said at least one angled clamping surface and said at least one further angled clamping surface are realized to correspond to one another.

6. The clamping device according to claim 5 , wherein

the at least one further angled clamping surface of the at least one further clamping element comprises the at least one further concave recess, which the at least one flexible-tube delivery element at least partly protrudes into, in at least one clamped state.

7. A delivery device, comprising:

at least one clamping device,

at least one flexible-tube delivery element, and

at least one drive unit for generating a drive force that acts on the at least one flexible-tube delivery element, wherein:

the at least one clamping device comprises at least one clamp-in unit for clamping in the at least one flexible-tube delivery element,

the drive force acts onto the at least one flexible-tube delivery element for delivery of a medium at least in a state when the at least one flexible-tube delivery element is arranged in the clamp-in unit,

the clamp-in unit is configured to clamp the at least one flexible-tube delivery element in such a way that it is curved as a whole, viewed in a cross section extending transversely to a delivery direction of the at least one flexible-tube delivery element,

the clamp-in unit comprises at least one clamping element, which differs from a drive element of the drive unit and which comprises a convex abutment element realizing an abutment surface for the at least one flexible-tube delivery element,

the at least one clamping element has at least one angled clamping surface,

the at least one clamping element comprises at least one adhesive element that is arranged on the at least one angled clamping surface of the at least one clamping element,

the clamp-in unit comprises at least one further clamping element that acts together with the at least one clamping element and delimits at least one concave recess, and

the at least one concave recess comprises at least one breakthrough through which the drive element at least partially engages the at least one flexible-tube delivery element.

8. The delivery device according to claim 7 , further comprising

a base plate onto which each of the at least one clamping device, the at least one flexible-tube delivery element, and the at least one drive unit are affixed.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Apr 20, 2023
From: QONQAVE GMBH
To: WATSON MARLOW GMBH
Reel/Frame 063400/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 11, 2023
From: REDSCHLAG, LARS
To: QONQAVE GMBH
Reel/Frame 063287/0200 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 28, 2019
From: REDSCHLAG, LARS; KRUTZENBICHLER, ALOIS; RITSCHKA, RAYMOND; BAUMANN, JOCHEN
To: QONQAVE GMBH
Reel/Frame 048156/0756 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2016 113 386.8 · Jul 20, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190301441A1 · Oct 3, 2019