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US 12,589,232 B2Granted
Medical connector with automatic sealing on disconnection
AssigneeFresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
InventorsTobias Weber, Robert Berlich
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a medical connector with automatic sealing on disconnection and to a method of connecting/disconnecting a medical connector.
Claims9
A first connector part comprising:
- an elongate base body with a lumen for conducting a fluid;
- a first threaded portion that is arranged at an outer side of the base body and that enables a releasable connection of the first connector part to a correspondingly matched second connector part;
- a sealing pin that has a lumen arranged in the lumen of the elongate base body so that fluid is capable of flowing through and/or around the sealing pin and the lumen of the elongate base body;
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- a second threaded portion that is arranged at an inner side of the elongate base body at a lumen side and that enables a releasable connection of the first connector part to the sealing pin that is correspondingly matched to the second threaded portion, wherein
- the thread pitch of the first threaded portion differs from the thread pitch of the second threaded portion,
- the sealing pin furthermore has a bounding element that restricts a rotation of the sealing pin to one direction, and
- the sealing pin has a fixing element at the end opposite the bounding element, wherein the sealing pin is capable of being releasably or non-releasably fixed to a closure element via a latched connection and/or via an undercut.
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A first connector part comprising:
- an elongate base body with a lumen for conducting a fluid;
- a first threaded portion that is arranged at an outer side of the base body and that enables a releasable connection of the first connector part to a correspondingly matched second connector part;
- a sealing pin that has a lumen arranged in the lumen of the elongate base body so that fluid is capable of flowing through and/or around the sealing pin and the lumen of the elongate base body;
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- a second threaded portion that is arranged at an inner side of the base body at the lumen side and that enables a releasable connection of the first connector part to the sealing pin that is correspondingly matched to the second threaded portion, wherein
- the thread pitch of the first threaded portion differs from the thread pitch of the second threaded portion, and
- the sealing pin furthermore has a bounding element in the form of a toothed block, that restricts a rotation of the sealing pin to one direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.