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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2001
Filed:
May. 25, 2000
Marco Moraja, Milan, IT;
Luca Viale, Bollate, IT;
SAES Getters S.p.A., Lainate, IT;
Abstract
A temperature-responsive, mobile shielding device (,) is located between a getter pump (GP) and a turbo pump (TMP) being in line to each other, capable of providing a complete shielding to the radiating heat transfer from the getter pump to the turbo pump when the non-evaporable getter material is heated to be activated, while on the contrary leaving free, without sensible reductions of conductance the transfer during the normal working of the pumps. This is obtained by providing, mounted on a vacuum flange (,) coupling the two pumps, a set of shielding metal members (,) including shape-memory elements, preferably of Ni—Ti alloy, capable of assuming two different configurations in a first of which, at a higher temperature, the shielding members (,) are substantially all co-planar, with their edges slightly overlapping to form a complete shielding, while in a second configuration, at a lower temperature, the shielding members leave substantially free the passage between the two pumps.