Applications

LinkTech designs and manufactures over 350 standard quick couplings that are used to connect surgical tubing to medical devices for body fluids, compressed gas, air, water, saline, and other fluids. Leak-free seals and easy to use designs create secure reliable connections that assure the safety of patients.

Miniature quick couplings from LinkTech are widely used to quickly and easily connect pressure and flow sensors to patient monitors. When connected, these couplings “click” creating an intuitive and reliable connection giving health care workers confirmation they have made a secure connection. Typical applications include blood pressure cuffs, pressure, and vacuum sensors.

The majority of air support surface equipment producers use LinkTech for fast, easy, reliable, and cost effective couplings. LinkTech’s quick couplings connect air bladder banks to manifolds and to control pumps systems. LinkTech’s 50 Series couplings are very popular in this industry due to their protected latch design and high flow capacity.

LinkTech’s 20AC and 40AC Series couplings are the ideal choice for water and compressed air connections found in these applications. Most Temperature Therapy applications make use of LinkTech’s unique internal auto shut-off feature to assure water doesn’t leak onto the patient when a pad disconnection is required. Compression Therapy manufactures utilize these couplings because of their reliable design and their field interchangeability with other thumb-latch type couplings

A wide variety of quick couplings are used to connect reagent and chemical supplies to instruments for purging and cleaning of fluid lines between tests. Many instrument manufactures also use LinkTech’s quick couplings to plumb internal components, such as valves and pumps, to allow for quick and easy field service.

Due to their reliable internal auto shut-off valves and guarantee to interconnect with other industry thumb-latch type couplings, LinkTech’s thermal plastic and chrome plated brass couplings have become widely accepted in food and beverage applications. Many equipment manufacturers use LinkTech couplings for water supply, disposable filter, and syrup connections. LinkTech’s 20AC, 20CB, 40AC, 40CB, and 50AC Series products use FDA/NSF grade o-rings and raw materials in all standard catalog couplings.

Quick couplings make it fast and easy to connect and disconnect liquid cooling lines. Their internal auto shut-off valves eliminate spills that can cause failures of electronic boards. Typical applications include cooling of circuit boards, large computer servers, aftermarket CPUs and large power supplies.

It’s an advantage to be able to disconnect fuel cell system modules without turning off the power. LinkTech’s quick couplings with internal shut-off valves allow fluid lines to be easily and safely disconnected and reconnected without power disruption.

20 Series miniature couplings from LinkTech are used throughout this industry for ink line connections to print heads and supply reservoirs. They provide fast fluid line connections and eliminate spills that create downtime and cause damage. Many of these couples are produced with exotic o-rings to be compatible with aggressive inks and fluids.

LinkTech’s entire product range has become popular in this industry because of their ability to handle thousands of repeated connections. Many process machines utilize pneumatics and low pressure fluids for motion control and LinkTech’s couplings help make installation, change-over’s, and service faster and easier.