Tube joining device
AssigneeTerumo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShun Demizu, Tomotaka Kokubu
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Abstract
Provided is a tube joining apparatus that allows a user to easily and properly set tubes to be joined, and can prevent occurrence of joining failures due to tube setting errors. A tube joining apparatus 1 includes a housing 10, a lid 22 relatively movable toward and away from the housing, a tube holding part 23 that holds a first tube T1 and a second tube T2 individually in a state of being placed side by side in an oblique direction D1 with respect to a height direction Z of the housing, and a tube pressing part 25 that presses the first tube and the second tube against each other as the lid relatively moves toward the housing.
Claims16
A tube joining apparatus that melts and cuts an end portion of a first tube and an end portion of a second tube with a heated plate-shaped cutting member, and then exchanges positions of the cut end portion of the first tube and the cut end portion of the second tube and joins the tubes under aseptic conditions, the apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a lid relatively movable toward and away from the housing;
- a tube holding part that holds the first tube and the second tube individually in a state of being placed side by side in an oblique direction with respect to a height direction of the housing;
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- a tube pressing part that presses the first tube and the second tube against each other as the lid relatively moves toward the housing.
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