Patent ID: 7886770
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: F16K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A gas panel assembly comprising: a planar support plate having one or more alignment slots arranged in two or more rows, with each row having a plurality of fastener passages; at least two parallel rows of two or more modular fluid inserts, where each insert has top and bottom faces and at least one alignment protrusion in the bottom faces that is configured to engage the rows of alignment slots in the support plate, where the inserts have one or more fluid passages in the top faces; at least at least one tubulated insert positioned in a row and connected to another insert in a different row defining a lateral passage between rows; and at least two U-shaped MSM interconnection components each having a base with a top face containing an MSM component, a bottom face having one or more fluid passages, and at least two alignment legs, each having a fastener passage, where the one or more fluid passages in the bottom face is in fluid communication through the base with the MSM component and where the bottom face of the MSM interconnection component is configured to provide a sealed interface with the one or more fluid passages in the top faces of the fluid inserts; and where the fluid inserts in each row are non-movably secured to the support plate through a compressive force when the U-shaped MSM interconnection components are fastened to the support plate using fasteners in the fastener passages.