Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible tubing having a stable flow rate and methods for making and using it
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Application No.: US15934866Application Date: 2018-03-23
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Publication No.: US10578093B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Charles S. Golub , Heidi Sardinha Lennon , Mark T. White , Joshua Becker , Lily Lei , Gerald H. Ling
- Applicant: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
- Applicant Address: US OH Solon
- Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
- Current Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Solon
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: F04B43/08
- IPC: F04B43/08 ; F16L11/06 ; C08L23/12 ; C08L25/06 ; B32B1/08 ; F04B43/12

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates generally to flexible tubing, for example, suitable for use in peristaltic pumps. The present disclosure relates more particularly to flexible tubing having a stable flow rate despite being extruded from thermoplastic polymer and methods for making such tubing. In one aspect, at least 50% of the material volume of a flexible tubing of the disclosure is formed from a first polymer material that includes a continuous phase that includes polypropylene and a non-cross-linked styrene block copolymer elastomer miscible with the polypropylene, as well as, dispersed within the continuous phase (e.g., discontinuously dispersed within the continuous phase), a cross-linked rubber phase. The non-cross-linked styrene block copolymer elastomer is present in the first polymeric material in an amount in the range of 2 wt % to 15 wt %. In certain desirable embodiments of the flexible tubings described herein, the flexible tubing has a flow rate variation over the 480 hours of use of less than 20%.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180274528A1 FLEXIBLE TUBING HAVING A STABLE FLOW RATE AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING IT Public/Granted day:2018-09-27
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