METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A PUMP BASED ON FILTER INFORMATION IN A FILTER INFORMATION TAG

• US 20110211975A1
• Filed: 02/26/2010
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Entegris Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Entegris Incorporated
• Inventors: Batchelder, Traci L., Ramirez, Raul A., Magoon, Paul J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,684,705 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 417/53
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/16 Filtration; Moisture separation
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 49/065 and making use of computers
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 53/20 Filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 7/0617 specially adapted for fluid materials

Abstract

The disclosure describes systems and methods relating generally to filtration. Even more particularly, this disclosure relates to controlling the operation of a pump using filter information. A removable filter can include an electronically readable tag storing filter information. The filter information can be read by a tag reader and rules applied to the filter information to determine whether or how to operate a pump.

Claims

1. A pump comprising:

one or more motors to draw fluid into an inlet of the pump and dispense fluid from an outlet of the pump;

a connection for a removable filter so that the removable filter can be placed in a fluid flow path between the pump inlet and pump outlet;

an electronic tag reader positioned and configured to read filter information from an electronic tag on the removable filter when the removable filter is connected to the pump;

a pump controller configured to;

receive filter information from the electronic tag reader;

apply one or more rules to the filter information to determine further operation of the pump.

2. The pump of claim 1, wherein the pump controller is configured to apply the one or more rules to the filter information to determine whether to prime a removable filter connected to the pump.

3. The pump of claim 1, wherein the pump controller is configured to apply the one or more rules to determine if a removable filter connected to the pump is an appropriate filter.

4. The pump of claim 1, wherein the electronic tag reader comprises an RFID reader.

5. The pump of claim 1, wherein the filter information comprises a part number.

6. The pump of claim 5, wherein applying the one or more rules further comprises comparing a received part number for a removable filter connected to the pump to an expected part number to determine whether to prime the removable filter connected to the pump.

7. The pump of claim 1, wherein applying the one or more rules comprises applying the one or more rules to information specific to a removable filter connected to the pump to determine whether to prime the removable filter connected to the pump.

8. A pump comprising:

one or more motors to draw fluid into an inlet of the pump and dispense fluid from an outlet of the pump;

a removable filter in a fluid flow path between the pump inlet and pump outlet, the removable filter having an electronic tag storing filter information for the removable filter;

an electronic tag reader positioned and configured to read the filter information from the electronic tag;

a pump controller coupled to the electronic tag reader, the pump controller configured to;

receive filter information from the electronic tag reader;

apply one or more rules to the filter information to determine further operation of the pump.

9. The pump of claim 8, wherein the pump controller is configured to apply the one or more rules to the filter information to determine whether to prime the removable filter.

10. The pump of claim 8, wherein the pump controller is configured to apply the one or more rules to determine if the removable filter is an appropriate filter.

11. The pump of claim 8, wherein the electronic tag reader comprises an RFID reader and the electronic tag comprises an RFID tag.

12. The pump of claim 8, wherein the filter information comprises a part number.

13. The pump of claim 12, wherein the applying the one or more rules further comprises comparing a received part number for the removable filter to an expected part number to determine whether to prime the removable filter.

14. The pump of claim 8, wherein the pump controller is configured to apply the one or more rules to information specific to the removable filter to determine further operation of the pump.

15. A method of controlling operation of a pump comprising:

connecting a filter having an electronic tag storing filter information to a pump;

reading the filter information from the electronic tag with an electronic tag reader;

communicating the filter information from the electronic tag reader to a pump controller coupled to the electronic tag reader;

applying one or more rules to the filter information to determine further operation of the pump.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more rules are applied by the pump controller.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more rules are applied by a system in communication with the pump controller.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the tag is an RFID tag and the electronic tag reader is an RFID reader.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein applying one or more rules to the filter information comprises comparing a part number in the filter information to an expected part number to determine if the part number in the filter information matches the expected part number.