To control flow without contaminating media such as blood, pharmaceuticals or reagents, a wide variety of medical devices and analytical equipment utilize media isolation valves. This article explores the characteristics of three main types of valves commonly used to isolate media.
Clippard Instrument Laboratory is a manufacturer of pneumatic components headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a family company in that it is owned and operated by descendants of its founder, but even more, it is a family company because it is made of a tight-knit team of people who rally around each other and care about the success of everyone involved.
Clippard Technical Sales Specialist Mike Kettering demonstrates an easy way to troubleshoot a leak with a 4-way valve connected to a double-acting cylinder.
Clippard's new DR-2 regulator provides the same robust durability as the original MAR regulator but with greater accuracy and repeatability. In this video, Nicki Beckett highlights some of the features and benefits of these regulators and explains the new application possibilities available with the DR-2 line.
There are many situations where it can be useful to mount a variety of valves with different functions together onto a single manifold. In this Tech Tip video, Scott Lamb, Technical Sales representative at Clippard, demonstrates how easily this can be done as he mounts six valves onto one manifold to perform five different functions.
These direct actuating valves offer an extremely fast response time for accurate dosing of minute volumes with the same long life you expect from the original Clippard EV line of electronic valves, now in a 8 mm cartridge package.
Rob Clippard, VP of Sales & Marketing, provides a brief overview of Clippard's pneumatic valves and custom solutions. Highlights include Clippard's new line of miniature pinch valves, PTFE isolation valves, the new DV electronic valves, the popular EV line of electronic valves, and Clippard's new line of precision regulators.
