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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2015
Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA (US);
Michel J. McCluskey, Somerset, PA (US);
John Ellsworth Gover, Jr., New Florence, PA (US);
Bryan P. Tipton, Johnstown, PA (US);
Kevin Anthony Weaver, Johnstown, PA (US);
Jennifer Lyne Kronick, Patton, PA (US);
David B. Berkey, Johnstown, PA (US);
Daniel R. Markiewicz, Johnstown, PA (US);
Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA (US);
Abstract
A self-sealing flow frame is provided having a first frame component and a second frame component. Each frame component is provided with a tongue-and-groove configuration that when assembled forms a tessellation engagement, which creates the seal. When each frame component is assembled into a flow frame, with the inner surfaces facing towards each other, the tongue-and-groove arrangements create a seal profile that circumscribe constituent parts of a device within which the self-sealing flow frame is being employed. As the frame components are compressively secured and fastened together, a tessellation engagement of the seal profile forms the fluid seal. Fluids of the device are prevented from exfiltrating the device, and are contained within the self-sealing flow frame by the fluid seal.