B29C53/083

MEDICAL COILED TUBING
20220096813 · 2022-03-31 · ·

Disclosed herein are sterilized medical coiled tubing and process for producing the same. One process comprises: helically winding a length of the medical tubing along a mandrel such that adjacent turns of the medical tubing are in contact with each other; applying solvent where the turns of the medical tubing contact each other to produce coiled medical tubing; allowing the solvent to dry; removing the medical tubing from the mandrel after the solvent has dried; and subjecting the medical tubing to a sterilization process using ethylene oxide with in-chamber aeration.

Tube with horizontal and vertical alignment guide lines
11273549 · 2022-03-15 ·

A bendable tube having pre-marked horizontal and vertical alignment guides which allow a user to form successive bends of the tube in the same plane. The horizontal and vertical alignment guides are coplanar with a horizontal plane and a vertical plane which axially bisect the tube and are perpendicular to each other. The horizontal and vertical alignment guides allow the tube to be precisely aligned within a bending apparatus, ensuring that the horizontal alignment guides remain coplanar with the horizontal plane when performing a horizontal bend, and that the vertical alignment guides remain coplanar with the vertical plane when performing a vertical bend.

MEDICAL COILED TUBING
20220096809 · 2022-03-31 · ·

Disclosed herein are sterilized medical coiled tubing and process for producing the same. One process comprises: helically winding a length of medical tubing along a mandrel such that adjacent turns of the medical tubing are in contact with each other at tubing contact points; applying a UV adhesive to the tubing contact points to produce a medical coiled tubing; curing the tubing by applying UV light to the tubing contact points; and removing the medical tubing from the mandrel after the solvent has dried.

HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY

A method of constructing a coil wound heat exchange module and transporting and installing the coil wound heat exchange module at a plant site, such as an natural gas liquefaction plant. A module frame is constructed and attached to a heat exchanger shell prior to telescoping of a coil wound mandrel into the shell. The module frame includes a lug and two saddles that remain attached to the shell throughout the process and when the heat exchanger is operated. The lug and saddles are constructed and located to stabilize the shell during construction, telescoping and transport (when in a horizontal orientation), and when the shell is installed at the plant site (in a vertical orientation). The lugs and saddles are adapted to allow for thermal expansion and contraction of the shell when it is transitioned from ambient to operating temperature and vice versa.

RESIN FILLER TUBE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

Provided are a resin filler tube capable of facilitating manufacture and ensuring rigidity in a bent tube portion, and a manufacturing method thereof. A resin filler tube connects an oil filling port and a fuel tank and includes straight tube portions and bent tube portions. The bent tube portions include a bellows-shaped bent inner portion in which hill portions and valley portions are continuous, and a bent outer portion which is formed by a non-bellows-shaped smooth surface. The valley portion of the bent inner portion has a linear outer peripheral surface parallel to a center line of the bent tube portions in a state in which the bent tube portions are in a straight tubular shape, and the linear outer peripheral surface of the valley portions is formed in an entire circumferential range in which the hill portions are formed.

Method for Bubble-Free Gas-Enrichment of a Flowing Liquid within a Conduit
20210252463 · 2021-08-19 ·

The present invention provides a system for enriching a flowing liquid with a dissolved gas inside a conduit. The system comprises two or more capillaries, each capillary delivering a stream of a gas-enriched liquid to the flowing liquid. The first ends of the capillaries are positioned to form an intersecting angle with respect to the effluent streams such that these streams of gas-enriched liquid collide with each other upon exit from the first ends of the capillaries, effecting localized convective mixing within the larger liquid conduit before these gas-enriched streams are able to come into close contact with the boundary surfaces of the conduit, whereby the gas-enriched liquid mixes with the flowing liquid to form a gas-enriched flowing liquid. In the preferred embodiment, no observable bubbles are formed in the gas-enriched flowing liquid. Methods of making and using such system are also provided.

System and Method for Manufacturing Fittings and Connections for Biaxially-Oriented Plastic Pipes
20210229381 · 2021-07-29 ·

The present invention discloses a system and a method for manufacturing fittings and connections for biaxially-oriented plastic tubes in an integral way from straight preformed tubes, with the possibility of adjusting and distributing the thicknesses as well as adjusting the specific stretching in the different areas of the fittings, allowing them to be reinforced or optimized during the method itself and without causing an increase in the production time or an increase in the raw material used, such that it allows for the manufacture of fittings of different geometric shapes (curves, tapers, couplers, branches, etc.)

METHOD FOR BENDING A PLASTIC TUBE AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD
20210245419 · 2021-08-12 ·

Method for bending a plastic pipe including arranging a bending portion of a plastic pipe in a heating zone of a heater and performing contactless local heating of the bending portion, wherein the heater is adapted to provide a first predetermined temperature difference between a neutral zone of the bending portion and a compression zone of the bending portion and a second predetermined temperature difference between the neutral zone and the compression zone, of the bending area and an expansion zone of the bending area, introducing bending forces on holding regions arranged on the plastic pipe at a distance from the bending area and/or introducing bending forces on the bending area for deforming the plastic pipe into a deformation position and cooling the plastic pipe in the deformation position.

Device for holding a bend area of an elongated, flexible element
20210237217 · 2021-08-05 ·

A device for holding a bend area of an elongated flexible element, such as an electric cable, a rope, a plastic tube or the like has two through-holes placed side by side in a shaped body. At least one of the two holes has a side opening extending to the corresponding peripheral edge of the shaped body, thereby making the hole accessible from the outside.

Medical device curving system

System for curving an elongated medical device including a curving apparatus, and a curve database corresponding to at least one curve shape. The curving apparatus is configured to impart a permanent curve according to the curve shape on a distal portion of an elongated medical device that is greater than that on a proximal portion of the elongated medical device while maintaining sterility of the elongated medical device.