Device for connection status identification
AssigneeFresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
InventorsTorsten Hochrein, Stefan Saal, Frank Hedmann
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a device for identifying the connection status between a patient catheter and a cassette system having flexible tubing assembly, which is intended to be used in a dialysis machine, wherein the device comprises the cassette system having flexible tubing assembly and an electrical circuit, which is disposed on the cassette system having flexible tubing assembly as well as on the patient catheter, and wherein the device furthermore comprises a measuring device for measuring at least one electrical property of the electrical circuit, which depends on said connection status.
Claims11
A device for identifying a connection status between a patient catheter and a cassette system having a flexible tubing assembly, the device designed to be used in a dialysis machine, wherein the device comprises the patient catheter, the cassette system having the flexible tubing assembly, an electrical circuit comprising a patient connector provided with a diode resistivity network arranged in parallel with a switch disposed on the cassette system having the flexible tubing assembly, an electrical circuit comprising a diode resistivity network disposed on the patient catheter, and a measuring device for measuring at least resistivity of the electrical circuits, the resistivity depending on said connection status, wherein the measuring device is designed to measure (i) resistivity of the diode resistivity network of the patient catheter and (ii) resistivity of the diode resistivity network of the patient connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.