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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2010
Jeffrey P. Jensen, Fort Collins, CO (US);
James D. Pisula, Jr., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Ralph E. Burns, Louisville, CO (US);
Raymond Townsend, Johnstown, CO (US);
Richard W. Cairns, Longmont, CO (US);
Jeffrey P. Jensen, Fort Collins, CO (US);
James D. Pisula, Jr., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Ralph E. Burns, Louisville, CO (US);
Raymond Townsend, Johnstown, CO (US);
Richard W. Cairns, Longmont, CO (US);
Value Plastics, Inc., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Abstract
A latching female tubing coupler comprises an opening, a collet finger, and an actuation member. The opening is adapted to guide a male connector along a first line of action as the male connector passes into the opening to be received within the latching female tubing coupler. The collet finger includes an engagement feature adapted to engage a coupling feature of the male connector and displace along a second line of action generally normal to the first line of action. The actuator member is adapted to displace along a third line of action generally normal to the first and second lines of action in order to disengage the engagement feature from the coupling feature of the male connector. When the engagement feature is engaged with the coupling feature on a male connector, a fluid conduit of the male connector is held in fluid communication with a fluid conduit of the latching female tubing coupler.