MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647102458 A) filed by Gea Westfalia Separator Group Gmbh on August 25, 2026, for Centrifuge Having A Centrifugal Drum With A Cooling Device.
Inventors include Mackel, Jrgen; Hundertmark, Tim; Hensel, Hubert; and Ueding, Jens.
The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.
Abstract: The invention relates to a centrifuge which is designed as a self-emptying separator with a vertical axis of rotation and provided to separate a product P - in particular blood - to be processed into at least two phases in a centrifugal field, of which at least one phase is a liquid phase Lp and another phase is a solid or slurry phase Sp, wherein the separator has at least the following: a rotatable centrifugal drum (1), solid outlet openings (14), an actuatable piston slide (15), wherein an actuation chamber (23) that can be filled with a fluid F is associated with the piston slide (15), and a cooling device for cooling the centrifugal drum, which is implemented in that the fluid F also simultaneously serves to cool the centrifugal drum (1), wherein one or more cooling channels (24) for cooling the centrifugal drum (1) extend(s) from the actuation chamber (23) in the drum casing (1a), which are fluidically connected to the actuation chamber (23) and through which the fluid can additionally flow, wherein at least one of the cooling channels in the drum casing also extends into a region vertically above the piston slide (15), wherein the fluid is conducted through the cooling channels (24) into a peeling disc chamber which rotates with the centrifugal drum (1) and in which the fluid is conducted out of the rotating centrifugal drum (1) through a fluid outlet by means of a peeling disc provided only for this purpose.
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