Sterilizing device with pinch actuated cap and housing
Assignee1WorldVista Medical, Inc.
InventorMichael J. Ferlic
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Abstract
Devices and methods for sterilizing the outer and inner surfaces of a working end-site of a medical device such as a catheter hub, luer connector, luer component, needleless access site, and/or access port are discussed. The sterilizing device can include a housing, a sterilizing element including an antipathogenic agent configured for sterilizing the working end-site of a medical device, and a cap hingedly coupled to the housing and configured to hermetically seal the sterilizing element within the housing. One or more features on the cap and housing serve to hermetically seal the cap to the housing prior to use.
Claims110
A medical device to mate with a medical end-site having a lumen and a surface contour that includes a contour feature of at least one mating projection or at least one mating indentation, the medical device comprising:
- an open end housing made of a first material and an element made of a second material different from the first material retained within the housing, the element having a form-fitting sidewall pre-shaped surface contour structure selected from the group consisting of a ridge, a thread and a flange for the medical end-site;
- whereby the sidewall pre-shaped surface contour structure of the element will frictionally contact and effect at least one of cleaning, disinfecting, sterilizing and drying of the contour feature of the medical end-site when the medical device is mated to the medical end-site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.