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US 11,229,746 B2Granted
Antiseptic cap
AssigneeExcelsior Medical Corporation
InventorsWilliam Anderson, Mark Wilson, Gary Henniger, Larry Colquitt, Christopher E. Gardner, Chirag Sanjay Walawalkar
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Abstract
A syringe assembly including: (1) a syringe barrel defining a chamber; (2) a plunger mounted in the chamber and moveable with respect to the barrel; and (3) a cap holder assembly containing a cap and an absorbent material removably attached to the syringe.
Claims18
An antiseptic cap assembly for use with an access site, the antiseptic cap assembly comprising:
- a cap holder assembly comprising:
- a cap comprising:
- a generally cylindrical cap side wall, and
- an absorbent material within the cap having an antiseptic substance prior to contacting a distal surface of an access site;
- a housing comprising:
- a housing outer wall at least partially defining a housing chamber, the housing chamber being configured to receive the cap, and
- a housing end wall;
- and
- a foil seal being removably attached to the housing outer wall to maintain the cap in an antiseptic state within the housing prior to use;
- and
- a cap connector comprising:
- a distal end portion being configured to removably engage the housing end wall of the cap holder assembly;
- and
- a proximal end portion comprising a projection or a recess and configured to attach to at least a portion of a medical article, the proximal end portion being configured to attach to the portion of the medical article while the distal end portion is removably engaged to the cap holder assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.