Patent ID: 7178556

Claim:
A modular component connector substrate system assembly for mounting thereon of at least two fluidic control components of a fluid flow system, said assembly comprising in combination: a. at least two spaced substrate blocks each substrate block including a body having a top face, a bottom face, spaced lateral side faces and spaced longitudinal end faces; said substrate block having first and second conduits, substantially parallel with said top and bottom faces, each conduit terminating at one end in a different one of said substrate block lateral side and longitudinal end faces; each substrate block further having third and fourth conduits, substantially perpendicular to said top face, with an outer end of each of said third and fourth conduits terminating in said top face and another end of each of said third and fourth conduits merging into another one of said first and second conduits, respectively; said at least two substrate block bottom surfaces residing in the same plane; b. a fluid control component affixed to the top face of each of said at least two substrate blocks, said fluid control component having first and second ports therein, said first and second ports being in fluid communication with said third and fourth conduits, respectively, of said substrate block; with each of said at least two substrate blocks further including a plurality of spaced first vertical through bores extending from said top face to said bottom face; c. a mounting plate having a top face thereof abutting the bottom faces of at least two spaced substrate blocks, said mounting plate including a plurality of spaced first apertures, aligned with said plurality of spaced first vertical through bores of said substrate blocks; and a plurality of first attachment members extending through said first vertical through bores and said first apertures for fixedly joining said substrate blocks to said mounting plate, said mounting plate also serving to align said substrate blocks so as to conform same to the centerline distances set forth in a particular industry specification; and d. a separate rigid fluid pressure connector fluidically interconnecting and sealingly joining adjacent ones of said at least two spaced substrate blocks and elastically coupling said at least two substrate blocks from each other at adjacent ones of the sides and/or end faces of said substrate blocks.