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US 12,390,566 B2Granted
System and method for connecting a concentrate container with a blood treatment device
AssigneeFresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
InventorsWinfried Brehm, Philippe Laffay, Gerhard Wiesen
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Abstract
The present invention refers to a system and method for connecting a concentrate container with a blood treatment device with improved hygiene. Furthermore, the invention refers to a container and blood treatment device to be used in a method according to the present invention.
Claims19
A container for concentrate, comprising:
- a main body for containing concentrate and having a longitudinal axis;
- a connection portion having a flat end surface and configured to connect the container for concentrate to a blood treatment device;
- two attachment elements arranged at two opposing sides of the connection portion and configured to reversibly attach the container for concentrate to two corresponding attachment elements present on a blood treatment device;
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- two connection elements each comprising an opening at the flat end surface of the connection portion and configured to interact with two respective connection elements present on a blood treatment device to fluidically couple the container for concentrate with the blood treatment device by insertion of the connection elements present on the blood treatment device into the connection elements of the container for concentrate, wherein
- the two attachment elements project in a first direction and the two connection elements project in a second direction that is oriented essentially at a right angle to the first direction,
- the second direction is oriented essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the main body, and
- the openings of the connection elements face in an upward direction.
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A blood treatment device comprising:
- a device main body having a side surface,
- two attachment elements to which corresponding attachment elements of a container for concentrate, are configured to be attached, wherein the two attachment elements are movable relative to the device main body in a direction that projects essentially at a right angle from the side surface of the device main body, and each of the two attachment elements is in the form of a pin or a stud projecting outwardly from the side surface of the main body, and
- two connection elements configured to fluidically couple the blood treatment device to a container for concentrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.