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US 12,151,523 B2Granted
Valve for an inflatable hose section
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsSascha Mattfeld, Günter Scholz, Guido Bilges, Hendrik Kohake
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Abstract
Valve for an inflatable flexible tube section comprising a tubular shaft, and also a valve base, connected adhesively and around the entire periphery to an end of the shaft, wherein the valve base has been manufactured from a thermoplastic polyurethane.
Claims11
A valve for an inflatable flexible tube section comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane, the valve comprising:
- a tubular shaft, and
- a valve base connected adhesively and around the entire periphery to an end of the tubular shaft,
- wherein:
- the valve base comprises a thermoplastic polyurethane which is a reaction product of (a) isocyanates with (b) polyetherols as compounds reactive toward isocyanates, the polyetherols having a Mn of 0.5×103 g/mol to 100×103 g/mol, the thermoplastic polyurethane having a shore hardness of from 70 A to 90 A;
- the tubular shaft comprises a thermoplastic polyurethane having a shore hardness in the range of from 70 A to 95 D,
- wherein the valve base of the valve is connected adhesively to the inflatable flexible tube section comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane,
- wherein
- the inflatable flexible tube section comprises an aperture, and
- the inflatable flexible tube section is connected adhesively around the aperture and around the entire periphery to the valve base of the valve, in such a way that the connection between an internal space of the inflatable flexible tube section and an internal space of the tubular shaft is sealed off from the environment.
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