Package for medical device
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsBhanupratapsingh Dharmendrasingh Thakore, Preetika Singh, Satyabhan Jat
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Abstract
Packages comprising a film surrounding the sterile medical device are described and including a tear-enabling feature and a gripping feature enabling a user to use a finger, a thumb or an end of a tool to apply a sufficient tearing force to cause the tear-enabling feature to tear and move the first end of the package away from the second end of the package using only one hand and to expose the sterile medical device to be accessed for use. Also described are methods of packaging a sterile medical device.
Claims26
A packaged sterile medical device comprising:
- a sterile medical device contained in a package, the package comprising:
- a film surrounding the sterile medical device, the film sealed at a first end and a second end and defining an enclosure comprising a front side, a back side, the first end, the second end, a first edge, and a second edge, the film comprising a tear strength and an area of reduced tear strength including a tear-enabling feature;
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- a gripping feature formed in the film located between the first end and the tear-enabling feature, the gripping feature configured to allow a user to use a finger, a thumb or an end of a tool to apply a sufficient tearing force to cause the tear-enabling feature to tear and move the first end of the package away from second end of the package using only one hand and to expose the sterile medical device to be accessed for use, wherein sterility of the sterile medical device is maintained until the sterile medical device is accessed for use.
A method of removing a sterile medical device from a package, the method comprising:
- placing the package containing the sterile medical device in a hand of a user, the package comprising a film sealed at a first end and a second end to define an enclosure comprising a front side, a back side, the first end, the second end, a first edge and a second edge, the film comprising a tear strength and an area of reduced tear strength including a tear-enabling feature;
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- applying a sufficient tearing force to a gripping feature formed in the film located between the first end and the tear-enabling feature to cause the tear-enabling feature to tear and move the first end of the package away from second end of the package using only one hand and to expose the sterile medical device to be accessed for use, wherein sterility of the sterile medical device is maintained until the sterile medical device is accessed for use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.