Contour-forming welding tool for pulse welding and contour-forming pulse welding method for a medical pack formed as a bag

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11498284-B2
Application number	US-201917265317-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2019
Priority date	Sep 25, 2018
Publication date	Nov 15, 2022
Grant date	Nov 15, 2022

Abstract

The invention relates to a welding tool and to a method for pulse welding of plastic films for medical packs formed as bags. In general, the invention provides that the film material which is plastified during welding and thus free-flowing is specifically displaced into a deepened, edge-side inner region of the sealing surface by increasing the sealing surface area. The film material accumulated in the recess leads to an increase in the film thickness in the inner region (25i) of the weld seam (6, 7, 8). As a result, the mechanical stability of the medical pack formed as a bag can be improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A welding tool for pulse welding a film made of plastic of a medical pack, comprising a welding jaw with a sealing strip, which extends along the welding jaw and can be pressed onto the film, wherein the sealing strip, in order to form a weld seam, comprises a heatable sealing surface in order to plasticize plastic material of the film at least adjoining the sealing surface and, on the edge side in relation to the sealing surface, has an adjoining, inner clamping region and an adjoining, outer clamping region for clamping the film during welding of the film, characterized in that the sealing surface has a raised portion arranged in a middle region, wherein an edge-side inner region of the sealing surface adjoining the inner clamping region is arranged recessed at least in sections both with respect to the inner clamping region and with respect to the raised portion.

2. The welding tool according to claim 1 , wherein the raised portion is provided by a plateau, which protrudes from a top surface of the sealing surface and/or in that the inner region arranged recessed is provided as a trench.

3. The welding tool according to claim 1 , wherein an edge-side outer region of the sealing surface adjoining the outer clamping region is arranged recessed both with respect to the outer clamping region and with respect to the raised portion or in that an edge-side outer region of the sealing surface adjoining the outer clamping region is arranged recessed with respect to the raised portion and substantially at a height of the outer clamping region.

4. The welding tool according to claim 3 , wherein the edge-side outer region of the sealing surface adjoined the outer clamping region is arranged raised with respect to the inner region of the sealing surface adjoining the inner clamping region.

5. The welding tool according to claim 1 , wherein a longitudinal axis of the raised portion is arranged laterally offset outwards with respect to a longitudinal axis of a heating conductor.

6. The welding tool according to claim 5 , wherein the raised portion ends in the region of a heating conductor towards an inner side and extends towards an outer side beyond the heating conductor, wherein the raised portion, on its inner side, adjoins the edge-side inner region of the sealing surface and merges directly into the edge-side recessed region.

7. The welding tool according to claim 1 , wherein the edge-side inner region of the sealing surface starts in the region of a heating conductor towards the outer side and extends towards the inner side beyond the heating conductor and/or in that a longitudinal axis of the edge-side inner region of the sealing surface is arranged laterally offset inwards with respect to a longitudinal axis of the heating conductor.

8. The welding tool according to claim 1 , wherein the recessed edge-side region of the sealing surface in sections has a depth decreasing in the direction of the inner clamping region and merges, preferably directly, into the inner clamping region and/or has a depth decreasing in sections in the direction of the raised portion and merges into the raised portion.

9. The welding tool according to claim 1 , wherein the raised portion has a displacement volume VV and the recessed inner region has a receiving volume AV, wherein the displacement volume VV of the raised portion is greater than the receiving volume AV of the recessed inner region.

10. The welding tool according to claim 1 , wherein the upper part of the welding tool has at least one depression which is formed to receive a weld-in section of a port.

11. A use of a welding tool according to claim 1 , to manufacture a medical pack formed as a bag.

12. A pulse welding method with a welding tool for pulse welding a film made of plastic of a medical pack, according to claim 1 , wherein a welding jaw of the welding tool is pressed with a heatable sealing surface to form a weld seam on the film such that a cavity is formed in the welding tool during the welding by the film being clamped on the edge side in relation to the sealing surface, during the welding process by an inner and outer clamping region, which is cooler compared to the sealing surface and extends on the edge side to the sealing surface, and plasticized plastic material of the film being pushed by a raised portion of the sealing strip into an edge-side inner region of the sealing surface recessed at least in sections such that a film thickness is increased in an edge-side inner region of the weld seam, wherein the edge-side inner region of the sealing surface is arranged recessed at least in sections both with respect to the inner clamping region and with respect to the raised portion.

13. The pulse welding method according to claim 12 , wherein the welding jaw of the welding tool is continuously cooled by means of a cooling element with a fluid and the sealing surface is heated in pulses in a time limited manner by means of a heating conductor.

14. The pulse welding method according to claim 12 , wherein at least one port is welded into the weld seam.

15. The pulse welding method according to claim 14 , wherein the sealing surface is more strongly heated in the region in which the port is welded in than in an adjoining region of the sealing surface in which two films are welded together.

16. The pulse welding method according to claim 12 , wherein the pack is filled with a medical liquid preferably containing an active ingredient, preferably via the port is sealed after filling and is sterilized, preferably autoclaved, in particular after sealing.

17. A medical pack formed as a bag, which comprises films welded together, wherein the bag comprises at least one weld seam, which at least in sections has a region, which is reduced in thickness with respect to an adjoining neighboring region of the welding seam, wherein the neighboring region is provided by an edge-side inner region of the weld seam and by an edge-side outer region of the weld seam and the edge-side inner region of the weld seam has a thickness D I which at least in sections is greater than a total thickness of the films welded together, wherein the total thickness is the sum of the individual thicknesses D of the films, wherein the thickness D I of the weld seam in the edge-side inner region at least in sections is 2D <D I <2.5 D and a thickness D P of the weld seam in the region of reduced thickness at least in sections is 0.5 2D <D P <2D and a thickness D E of the weld seam in the outer region at least in sections is 0.8 2D <D E <1.2 2D.

18. The medical pack formed as a bag according to claim 17 , wherein the region, which is reduced in thickness, extends in a strip-shaped manner along a region of the weld seam and/or in that the region, which is increased in thickness, extends in a strip-shaped manner along a region of the weld seam.

19. A welding tool for pulse welding a film made of plastic of a medical pack the welding tool comprising a welding jaw with a sealing strip, which extends along the welding jaw and can be pressed onto the fil, wherein the sealing strip, in order to form a weld seam, comprises a heatable sealing surface in order to plasticize plastic material of the film at least adjoining the sealing surface and, on the edge side in relation to the sealing surface, has an adjoining, inner clamping region and an adjoining, outer clamping region for clamping the film during welding of the film, characterized in that the sealing surface has a raised portion arranged in a middle region, wherein an edge-side inner r

Assignees

• Fresenius Kabi Deutschland Gmbh

Inventors

• Wittorf Joern
• Wegner Gerald
• Lenhardt Tobias

Classifications

• B29C66/81261

  Thermal properties, e.g. thermal conductivity, thermal expansion coefficient · CPC title

• B29C66/71

  characterised by the composition of the plastics material of the parts to be joined (welding bar compositions B29C65/125) · CPC title

• B29C66/24244

  forming a rectangle · CPC title

• B29C66/81811

  of the welding jaws · CPC title

• B29C65/38 Primary

  Impulse heating · CPC title