Hollow fibre membrane module and method for manufacturing hollow fibre membrane module
AssigneeToray Industries, Inc.
InventorsMasato Yanagibashi, Atsushi Kobayashi, Shun Shimura
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a hollow-fiber membrane module including: a hollow-fiber membrane bundle including a plurality of hollow-fiber membranes bundled in a potting part; a housing enclosing the hollow-fiber membrane bundle; and a protective member contacting with an outer surface of the potting part and continuously covering the outer surface, in which the protective member has a notched part through which one end of the protective member communicates with another end in a longitudinal direction of the hollow-fiber membrane bundle.
Claims7
A hollow-fiber membrane module comprising:
- a hollow-fiber membrane bundle comprising a plurality of hollow-fiber membranes bundled in a potting part;
- a housing enclosing the hollow-fiber membrane bundle;
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- a protective member adhered indirectly to an outer surface of the potting part with an intervention of a cured adhesive and continuously covering the outer surface, and
- having a gap between the protective member and the housing,
- wherein the protective member has a notched part through which one end of the protective member communicates with another end in a longitudinal direction of the hollow-fiber membrane bundle, and at which the outer surface of the potting part is exposed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.