Connection device for valves and valve arrangement equipped therewith

A valve array comprising:

• a connection device for valves, comprising:
• a connection body extending along a main axis,
• the connection body having consecutive valve mounting stands in a direction of the main axis, on which valves are configured to be mounted, and the connection body being provided with at least one row of consecutive receiving recesses in the direction of the main axis, wherein the receiving recesses are transverse to the main axis and leading to a common connection surface of the connection body,
• the receiving recesses communicating with connection body channels passing into the connection body and into which connection units are configured to be inserted for connecting fluid lines, an inserted use position of which can be detachably fixed to the connection body by locking means having at least one U-shaped locking bracket,
• wherein the locking means contain at least two locking channels at a distance from one another and aligned parallel to one another, wherein the at least two locking channels extend along the main axis in the connection body and in so doing each transversely penetrates at least two consecutive receiving recesses of the at least one row of receiving recesses, wherein the at least one U-shaped locking bracket is configured to be inserted and is longitudinally displaceable into the at least two locking channels, wherein the at least one locking bracket is configured to assume a lock position in which the at least one locking bracket reaches through the at least two consecutive receiving recesses simultaneously and is in locking engagement with the connection unit inserted therein by preventing withdrawal thereof,
• wherein the at least one row of receiving recesses includes a first and a second row of receiving recesses that are aligned vertically on top of each other at the connection body, wherein two of the at least two locking channels, that are above and below the receiving recesses, are associated with each row of the first and second rows of receiving recesses, and
• wherein electrically actuatable valves are mounted on the valve mounting stands.