Ambulatory infusion devices and filter assemblies for use with same
AssigneeThe Alfred E. Mann Found. For Scientific Research
InventorsSusan McConnell Montalvo, Charles L. Byers, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Stott, Darren Y. K. Yap
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Abstract
An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a free end associated with the inner surface of the wall and a filter supporting volume that extends to the free end of the housing filter portion, and a filter located within the filter supporting volume that extends to at least the free end of the housing filter portion.
Claims18
An ambulatory infusing device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a reservoir defining an interior volume;
- a wall associated with the housing and having a wall inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume;
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- a filter assembly including
- a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a free end associated with the wall inner surface, a housing filter portion inner surface and a filter supporting volume that extends to the free end of the housing filter portion and to the housing filter portion inner surface, and
- a filter that occupies the entire filter supporting volume that extends to at least the free end of the housing filter portion and to the housing filter portion inner surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.