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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2011
Wolfgang Diemer, Waldstetten, DE;
Martin Zeiler, Schwaebisch Gmuend, DE;
Wolfgang Diemer, Waldstetten, DE;
Martin Zeiler, Schwaebisch Gmuend, DE;
Pall Corporation, Port Washington, NY (US);
Abstract
A filter module comprises a body of wound layers of sheet material, said body having inner and outer peripheral surfaces and a winding axis and a passage extending along the winding axis and in fluid communication with the inner peripheral surface, the sheet material having openings forming two channel types extending from the inner to the outer peripheral surfaces, a first channel type open at the outer peripheral surface and closed adjacent to the inner peripheral surface, a second channel type open at the inner peripheral surface, in fluid communication with the passage and closed adjacent to the outer peripheral surface, the two channel types separated from each other by sheet material, one channel type communicating with a module port, the other channel type communicating with another module port, wherein a majority of openings forming the inlet channels incompletely register with corresponding openings of an adjacent layer.