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US 11,529,154 B2Granted
Stool management system
AssigneeWilMarc Holdings, LLC
InventorsPaul C. Ciccone, Kathryne Rose Eckert
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Abstract
A stool management system having a tubular body including a first end section disposable in a rectum of a patient and a second end section including a first connector which detachably mates with a second connector coupled to a collection container which receives waste matter passed through the tubular body from the bowel of the patient.
Claims24
An apparatus, comprising:
- a tubular body;
- a first end section disposable in a rectum;
- a second end section including a first connector;
- a collection container including a second connector which mateably engages said first connector:
- wherein said first connector includes:
- a first tubular portion telescopingly engaged to a second tubular portion, said first tubular portion reciprocally telescopingly transitions from an extended condition toward a retracted condition;
- and
- a vent element disposed in fixed spatial relation to said second tubular portion,
- said vent element transitions between a vent closed condition which engages said first tubular portion in said extended condition and a vent open condition disengaged from said first tubular portion in said retracted condition;
- and
- wherein said second connector includes:
- a tubular member defining a tubular member internal surface
- a seal element having a seal periphery connected to said tubular member internal surface;
- said seal transitions to a seal open condition, upon said first connector mateably engaged to said second connector.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a connector including a first tubular portion reciprocally telescopingly engaged to a second tubular portion, said first tubular portion telescopingly transitions from an extended condition toward a retracted condition;
- a vent element support which extends from said second tubular portion through a tubular lumen of said first tubular portion to support a vent element in fixed spatial relation to said first tubular portion,
- wherein said vent element transitions between a vent closed condition in the extended condition of said first tubular portion and a vent open condition in the retracted condition of said first tubular portion
- wherein said vent element further comprises a porous plug which allows passage of gas from within said first tubular portion.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a first connector including a tubular member defining a tubular member internal surface;
- a seal having a seal peripheral edge connected to said tubular member internal surface,
- said seal element including two or more resiliently flexible wipers inwardly extending from said seal peripheral edge to abut in a seal closed condition
- said tubular member internal surface configured to insertingly receive a tubular portion of a second connector,
- said two or more resiliently flexible wipers flex to engage an external surface of said first tubular portion of said first connector inserted inside of said tubular member,
- whereby said seal element of said second connector transitions to a seal open condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.