Breast pump system
AssigneeChiaro Technology Limited
InventorsJonathan O'Toole, Adam Rollo, Andrew Carr
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Abstract
The invention is a wearable breast pump system including a housing shaped at least in part to fit inside a bra and a piezo air-pump. The piezo air-pump is fitted in the housing and forms part of a closed loop system that drives a separate, deformable diaphragm to generate negative air pressure. The diaphragm is removably mounted on a breast shield.
Claims38
A breast pump device that is configured as a self-contained, in-bra wearable device and configured to be used with both left and right breasts, and that includes:
- a housing that includes:
- a battery, and
- a pump powered by the battery and generating negative air pressure;
- a breast shield made up of a breast flange and a nipple tunnel;
- a milk container that is configured to be attached to and removed from the housing;
- and
- a control interface that is user selectable to indicate or record if milk is being expressed from the left or the right breast and that, when selected for a particular pumping session, sends data to a connected application, running on a user device, that tracks pumping sessions, to indicate whether that particular session is associated with the left or the right breast,
- the control interface including a set of visual indicators indicating whether the breast pump device is set up for pumping from the left or the right breast, and the set of visual indicators including a visual indicator for the left breast and a visual indicator for the right breast, in which the visual indicator for the left breast is on a right-hand side of the housing and the visual indicator for the right breast is on a left-hand side of the housing when viewing the breast pump device from a front of the breast pump device.
A breast pump device that is configured as a self-contained, in-bra wearable device and configured to be used with both left and right breasts, and that includes:
- a housing that includes a battery, and a pump powered by the battery and generating negative air pressure;
- a breast shield made up of a breast flange and a nipple tunnel;
- a milk container that is configured to be attached to and removed from the housing;
- and
- a control interface that is user selectable to indicate or record if milk is being expressed from the left or the right breast and that, when selected for a particular pumping session, sends data to a connected application, running on a user device, that tracks pumping sessions, to indicate whether that particular session is associated with the left or the right breast,
- the control interface including a button or interface labelled to indicate the left breast and a button or interface labelled to indicate the right breast, that are respectively configured to illuminate to indicate from which of the left breast or the right breast the milk is being expressed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.