Patent References 1797591 2834368 3234964 3513876 3654960 3817269 Valve block Apparatus for producing calibration gases suitable for analytical instrumentation Purging apparatus Zero dead volume valve InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 777046 filed on 12/30/1996US Classes:137/240, With separate material addition137/269, CONVERTIBLE137/271, Units interchangeable between alternate locations137/884Sectional block structureExaminersPrimary: Ferensic, Denise L.Assistant: Ball, John Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Patent References
International ClassF16K 003/36Foreign Application Priority Data1996-01-05 JPAbstractTo provide a small-sized gas supply unit dispensing with connection parts or the like such as joints, pipes or the like among components or a gas supply unit facilitating maintenance of a manual valve or the like, the gas supply unit is provided with opening and closing valves for regulating flow of supply gas flowing in channels, a mass flow controller controlling the flow rate of the supply gas and a purge valve for supplying a replacement gas excluding the supply gas remaining in the mass flow controller, wherein a series of fixing blocks in which channels for making the supply gas and the purge gas flow are formed and which have first attaching portions for fixedly installing the opening and closing valves, the mass flow controller and the purge valve above the channels, are provided with second attaching portions by which fluid element parts communicating with the supply gas channels or the purge gas channels can be attached from a direction the same as that of the first attaching portion. | |