Evacuable flexible leakage test chamber
AssigneeInficon GmbH
InventorsHendrik van Triest, Silvio Decker
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Abstract
An evacuable flexible test chamber (10) for a leakage test of a test piece, having a wall (12) surrounding a test chamber volume (36), is characterized in that at least a portion of said wall is made up of two layers (18, 20) of wall material of which at least the layer (20) facing said test chamber volume (36) is made from a flexible material, and that between said two layers (18, 20) an overpressure as compared to the atmosphere surrounding said test chamber (10) is adapted to be created.
Claims9
An evacuable flexible test chamber for a leakage test of a test piece, said test chamber comprising a wall surrounding a test chamber volume, wherein
- at least a portion of said wall is made up of two layers of wall material of which at least a layer facing said test chamber volume is made from a flexible material, and between said two layers an overpressure as compared to the atmosphere surrounding said test chamber is adapted to be created,
- the wall surrounding the test chamber volume is made up of two partial walls fittingly placed on each other, of which a first partial wall forms a bottom of the test chamber and a second partial wall forms a cover of the test chamber,
- the layer facing away from the test chamber volume is of rigid configuration,
- the layer of flexible material is permanently convexly bulged towards the test piece in an open condition of the chamber, and
- between the two layers, the overpressure as compared to the atmosphere surrounding the test chamber prevails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.