Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods of using compression collars for coupling a tube to a tube fitting
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Application No.: US17576671Application Date: 2022-01-14
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Publication No.: US11821553B2Publication Date: 2023-11-21
- Inventor: Ryan S. Beus , Brandon R. Burtenshaw , Eric Davis , Patrick L. Draper , Michael E. Goodwin , Brandon M. Knudsen , Jeremy K. Larsen , Kevin R. Pickup
- Applicant: Life Technologies Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Assignee: Life Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Life Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Agency: MINTZ LEVIN COHN FERRIS GLOVSKY AND POPEO, P.C.
- The original application number of the division: US15863031 2018.01.05
- Main IPC: F16L33/207
- IPC: F16L33/207 ; A61M39/12 ; F16L33/22 ; B29C65/00 ; B29C65/68 ; B29C65/56 ; B29L31/24

Abstract:
A method for coupling a tube to a tube fitting includes radially outwardly expanding a tubular compression collar from a constricted state to an expanded state, the compression collar having a throughway extending there through and being made of a resiliently flexible material. An end of the tube is inserted within the throughway of the expanded compression collar, the tube bounding a passage. A tube fitting is inserted within the passage of the tube. The compression collar is allowed to resiliently rebound back towards the constricted state so that the compression collar pushes the tube against the tube fitting.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220136632A1 Methods of Using Compression Collars for Coupling a Tube to a Tube Fitting Public/Granted day:2022-05-05
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