F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 04 – B
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
04
B
103/30
F04B 43/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1222901
PUMP ACTUATOR ABSTRACT An actuator and sac are described for use in a pump having a pump chamber whose contents are expelled by movement of a pair of pusher plates toward one another. The actuator includes opposed solenoid armatures which are operable for movement between open and closed positions. The armatures are each operatively connected to an associated pusher plate by a main spring which is attached at one end to the back end of the armature, extends through a front-to-back slot in an armature core, and is connected at its opposite end to the pusher plate. A pair of preload springs carried on each armature and disposed on either side of the associated main spring acts to hold the main spring in a prestressed condition prior to solenoid actuation. With closure of the armatures, and with the sac still in an expanded condition, the main springs are disengaged from the associated preload spring and placed in a more stressed, more planar configuration, with the increased stress in each main spring being relieved by movement of the pusher plates toward one another. The sac has an annular side wall which is held in a rigid condition, and a pair of opposed circular walls, each joined to the annular side wall through a flexible annular wall portion. A circular pusher plate acting against each circular wall has an initial deflection position at which the associated flexible wall portion in the sac takes the form of a circumferentially uniform roll having an outwardly convex, bulged cross sectional curvature. The rolls in the sac maintain their circumferentially uniform, bulge-like character as the pusher plates are moved toward inwardly moved positions.
442516
Chen Herbert
Conley Michael G.
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Macrae & Co.
Novacor Medical Corporation
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