Leak detection in a viscous flow
AssigneeInficon GmbH
InventorsDaniel Wetzig, Yessica Brachthäuser, Sebastian Weiss
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for vacuum leak detection, comprising a vacuum pump (18), a test chamber (12) which is designed to accommodate the test specimen and can be evacuated by means of the vacuum pump (18), and a gas detector (16) which detects the gas evacuated from the test chamber (12) by means of the vacuum pump (18), wherein the test chamber (12) has a plurality of vacuum connections (26) provided with the vacuum pump (18) in order to evacuate the test chamber (12), characterized in that a common pump volume (28) which is connected to the vacuum connections (26) is fluidically provided between the vacuum connections (26) and the vacuum pump (18) and is evacuated by means of the vacuum pump (18).
Claims14
1-13. (canceled)
A device for leak detection comprising
- a vacuum pump,
- a test chamber configured to receive a test specimen and adapted to be evacuated by the vacuum pump,
- a gas detector detecting the gas evacuated from the test chamber by the vacuum pump,
- the test chamber being provided with a plurality of vacuum connections for evacuating the test chamber, the vacuum connections being connected to the vacuum pump,
- wherein a common pump volume connected to the vacuum connections is provided fluidically between the vacuum connections and the vacuum pump, which pump volume is evacuated by the vacuum pump.
A method for vacuum leak detection with a vacuum leak detection device comprising a vacuum pump, a gas detector and a test chamber, the vacuum pump evacuating the test chamber and the gas detector detecting a test gas in the gas evacuated from the test chamber by the vacuum pump, the test chamber comprising a plurality of vacuum connections connected to a common pump volume, the pump volume being formed fluidically between the test chamber and the vacuum pump, the method comprising the steps of:
- placing a test specimen in the test chamber,
- evacuating the pump volume and the test chamber such that a gas pressure gradient extending from the test chamber into the pump volume is greater than any gas pressure gradient extending transversely through the test chamber inside the test chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.