Purger device for oxygenators
AssigneeSorin Group Italia S.r.l.
InventorsAndrea Zaniboni, Claudio Silvestri
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Abstract
A purger device for hollow fiber oxygenators, including a gas inlet, a gas outlet, and a fluid communication feature between the gas inlet and the gas outlet. The purger device further including an accumulation chamber having a variable volume plenum ported to the fluid communication feature, and a flow control unit configured to vary fluid communication patterns in the fluid communication feature and having a first operating condition and a second operating condition, wherein in the first operating condition the flow control unit enables a fluid communication between the gas inlet and gas outlet, and wherein in the second operating condition the flow control unit enables a fluid communication between the gas inlet and the variable volume plenum of the accumulation chamber.
Claims34
A purger device for hollow fiber oxygenators, including:
- a gas inlet;
- a gas outlet;
- and
- a fluid communication feature between said gas inlet and said gas outlet;
- the purger device further including:
- an accumulation chamber having a variable volume plenum ported to said fluid communication feature;
- and
- a flow control unit configured to vary fluid communication patterns in said fluid communication feature and having a first operating condition and a second operating condition,
- wherein in the first operating condition the flow control unit enables a fluid communication between said gas inlet and gas outlet, and wherein in the second operating condition the flow control unit enables a fluid communication between said gas inlet and the variable volume plenum of said accumulation chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.