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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2003
Murray J. Height, Somerville, MA (US);
Eun Young Hwang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Timothy J. Prestero, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Murray J. Height, Somerville, MA (US);
Eun Young Hwang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Timothy J. Prestero, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A clamp having a first clamp body, a second clamp body, and a clamping structure coupled to at least one of the first and second clamp bodies. One or both of the clamp bodies form a channel adapted to receive a tube. The clamping structure is movable in the channel to control the flow rate of a fluid flowing through the tube. In one embodiment, the clamp is provided as a rotary clamp having clamp bodies that are adapted to be rotated relative to each other to control the flow rate of a fluid through a tube disposed in the rotary clamp. The rotary clamp has a substantially linear, or otherwise pre-determined, relationship between flow rate of a fluid flowing through the tube and rotation of the second clamp body.