Fitting connection

• US 8,371,621 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2010
• Issued: 02/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Herbert Funke
• Original Assignee: Herbert Funke
• Inventors: Funke, Herbert
• Primary Examiner(s): BOCHNA, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US12/821,553
• Publication Number:
  US 20100327577A1
• Time in Patent Office: 965 Days
• Field of Search: 285/249, 285/342, 285/343
• US Class Current: 285/342
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 11/0655 with flat slides
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2030/201 multiport valves, i.e. having more than two ports
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2030/204 Linearly moving valves, e.g. sliding valves
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/44743 Introducing samples
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 30/04 Preparation or injection of sample to be analysed
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 30/20 using a sampling valve
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 30/22 in high pressure liquid systems

Abstract

A fitting connection for a capillary has a sealing bushing, a compression bushing, and a backing bushing. The backing bushing has a bore for receiving the sealing bushing and the compression bushing into the backing bushing, and the sealing bushing and the compression bushing are each provided with a central bore for feeding through a capillary tube. The bore of the backing bushing has a partly slightly conical bore end which compacts the sealing bushing such that the bore of the sealing bushing exerts a radial surface pressure onto the external wall of the capillary.

Claims

1. A fitting connection for a capillary comprising:

a tubular sealing bushing, a compression bushing and a backing bushing, the backing bushing having a bore for receiving the sealing bushing and the compression bushing such that the sealing bushing is completely inserted into the bore and backed by an inner wall of the bore, the sealing bushing and the compression bushing being each provided with a central bore for feeding through a capillary tube,

wherein an end of the bore of the backing bushing has a partly slightly conical shape for compressing the sealing bushing such that an inner wall of the central bore of the sealing bushing exerts a surface pressure in a radial direction onto an external wall of a capillary end within a contact area between the external wall of the capillary and an inside surface of the central bore,

wherein, by being pressed into a receiving bore in a stator plate, the fitting connection further comprises an assembly comprising the backing bushing and the sealing bushing pressed into said backing bushing, wherein said assembly includes a flat frontal surface avoiding a dead volume in an interface area between the front face and a bottom of the receiving bore, and

wherein said flat front face of the assembly is formed by flush front faces of the backing bushing, the capillary and the sealing bushing abutting with a bottom of the receiving bore, respectively.

2. The fitting connection according to claim 1, wherein an assembly comprising the compression bushing, the backing bushing and the sealing bushing is fixed by means of a single or dual wing buckle element, wherein said buckle element exerts an axial pressure onto said compression bushing, wherein said axial pressure is transferred by the compression bushing onto the sealing bushing for achieving the compression of the sealing bushing such that only axial and no torsion compression forces are exerted onto the assembly.

3. The fitting connection according to claim 1, wherein the sealing bushing comprises sealing surfaces of polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE).