Global Patent Index - EP 1141974 B1

EP 1141974 B1 20040506 - Device for linking doors between two chambers insulated from the outside environment

Title (en)

Device for linking doors between two chambers insulated from the outside environment

Title (de)

Vorrichtung zur Verbindung von Türen zwischen zwei von der Umgebung abgedichteten Räumen

Title (fr)

Dispositif de liaison de portes entre deux enceintes isolées du milieu extérieur

Publication

EP 1141974 B1 20040506 (FR)

Application

EP 99959468 A 19991209

Priority

  • FR 9903078 W 19991209
  • FR 9815851 A 19981211

Abstract (en)

[origin: US2003126799A1] This connecting device applies to a sealed connection device in which, firstly, each chamber, respectively a stationary chamber "A" and a transportable chamber "B" has at least one access opening equipped with a door (2, 3) cooperating with a flange (4, 5) with the interposition of sealing means (12, 14), one (2) of the two doors being articulated to its flange (4), and secondly, the two doors (2, 3) have means of locking to their respective flanges (4, 5) and complementary connecting means which allow them to be connected thereby forming, through contact of sealing means (12, 16), an internal space "C" isolating their faces (17, 18) opposite each other from the external medium. According to the invention, the means of connecting the two doors (2, 3) together comprise a network of ducts (30, 34, 35) formed at least in one of the doors and emerging, at one of its ends, from the external face (18) of the said door in the said sealed internal space "C", the said network being connected, at its other end, to a source (30) of vacuum.

IPC 1-7

F16P 1/00; G21F 7/005; G21F 7/047

IPC 8 full level

E06B 5/00 (2006.01); F16J 15/00 (2006.01); G21F 7/005 (2006.01); G21F 7/047 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

B01L 1/02 (2013.01 - EP US); G21F 7/005 (2013.01 - EP US); G21F 7/047 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

US 2003126799 A1 20030710; US 6817143 B2 20041116; AT E266174 T1 20040515; AU 1663200 A 20000703; DE 69917068 D1 20040609; DE 69917068 T2 20050421; EP 1141974 A1 20011010; EP 1141974 B1 20040506; ES 2221467 T3 20041216; FR 2787235 A1 20000616; FR 2787235 B1 20010119; JP 2002532670 A 20021002; JP 4834221 B2 20111214; US 6553722 B1 20030429; WO 0036610 A1 20000622

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 37838103 A 20030303; AT 99959468 T 19991209; AU 1663200 A 19991209; DE 69917068 T 19991209; EP 99959468 A 19991209; ES 99959468 T 19991209; FR 9815851 A 19981211; FR 9903078 W 19991209; JP 2000588773 A 19991209; US 85705902 A 20020129