US 11,986,751 B2
Seal for separation device
Jonathan L. Belanger, Whitinsville, MA (US); Wade P. Leveille, Sr., Douglas, MA (US); Michael O. Fogwill, Uxbridge, MA (US); Joseph D. Michienzi, Plainville, MA (US); and Jeffrey Musacchio, Sharon, MA (US)
Assigned to Waters Technologies Corporation, Milford, MA (US)
Filed by Waters Technologies Corporation, Milford, MA (US)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/241,480.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/018,058, filed on Apr. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0339166 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. B01D 15/22 (2006.01); B01D 15/10 (2006.01); F16J 15/34 (2006.01); G01N 30/60 (2006.01)
CPC B01D 15/22 (2013.01) [B01D 15/10 (2013.01); F16J 15/34 (2013.01); G01N 30/60 (2013.01); G01N 30/6004 (2013.01); G01N 30/6026 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for a separation device, the apparatus comprising:
an end nut shaped to be positioned on one of an inlet side of the separation device and an outlet side of the separation device, the end nut further shaped to mate with a connecting fitting;
a cap seal having a device side, a fitting side and a lip having a gap therein, the cap seal positioned, at least in part, in the end nut on the device side of the cap seal, and the cap seal positioned to interface with the connecting fitting on the fitting side of the cap seal upon the end nut being mated with the connecting fitting; and
a face seal bore of the cap seal being axially alignable with at least one of an inlet of the separation device on the inlet side of the separation device, and an outlet of the separation device on the outlet side of the separation device.