Push filter with floating key lock

    公开(公告)号:US12042752B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US17082827

    申请日:2020-10-28

    Abstract: A filter assembly for fluid filtration having a push-activated lock and release mechanism. A push filter design activates a floating key lock upon insertion and extraction, where the filter key may be used simultaneously as a lock and as an identifier for particular filter attributes. The filter base may be situated inline, and in fluid communication, with influent and effluent piping, such as within a refrigerator. The filter housing assembly may be attached to, and removed from, the filter base by a push-actuated release. Upon insertion, the filter key shifts the filter lock longitudinally to receive interlocking segments. Upon extraction, the same axial push shifts the filter lock further to align the interlocking fingers within gaps that allow for easy extraction. The specific key lock design allows a user to identify and match certain filter configurations received by the mechanical support, and reject other filter configurations.

    FILTER HOLDER
    4.
    发明公开
    FILTER HOLDER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240216841A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-04

    申请号:US18124747

    申请日:2023-03-22

    Abstract: A filter holder has an assembling base, a trigger component, and a body. The assembling base includes a mounting portion and a body holder having a connecting bole, a slit, a blocking end, and an engaging groove. The trigger component is connected to the body holder. The body is rotatably connected to the assembling base and has a cap, a connecting tube inserted into the connecting hole of the body holder, and a locking rib able to be located in the slit and the engaging groove. The trigger component is pressed away from the slit to drive the body holder to release an engagement between the engaging groove of the body holder and the locking rib of the body.

    Liquid filtering system
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11666840B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-06

    申请号:US17145058

    申请日:2021-01-08

    Abstract: A filtering system (10) includes a filtering apparatus having a filter unit for receiving liquid to be filtered, a receptacle for receiving filtered liquid, and an adapter (14) for coupling the filter unit to the receptacle, and also includes a base (12) having a cradle (26) for receiving the filtering apparatus and a base vacuum delivery port (28). The adapter includes an adapter vacuum receiving port (22) coupled to the vacuum delivery port for driving the liquid through the filter and—as filtered liquid—into the receptacle. The cradle and the adapter have an interlocking mechanism (52, 54) that locks the filtering apparatus to the cradle in a locking position in which the vacuum receiving port is sealingly coupled to the base vacuum delivery port. The base vacuum delivery port has a vacuum valve (30) constituted as a normally-closed valve automatically forced open when the filtering apparatus locks to the cradle.

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