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US 12,594,374 B2Granted
Stackable manifolds for medical fluids
AssigneeAsset Medical, Inc.
InventorsMehmet Tüysüz, Ahmet Reha Basaran, Saulius Umbrasas
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Abstract
A manifold including two or more connectors, or a manifold comprising a first connector and a second connector for communication of medical fluids. The manifold is constituted by engaging a first-gender first end of a connector to a complementarily shaped second-gender second end of a further connector; or the manifold is constituted by engaging a first-gender first end of the first connector to a complementarily shaped second-gender second end of the second connector.
Claims15
A manifold comprising:
- a first connector and a second connector, each of the first connector and the second connector including:
- a connector body, the connector body defining a conduit and including a first end and a second end, the conduit extending through the first end and the second end and defining a first axis (A1), the first end having one of a first and a second interface geometry and the second end having one of the first and the second interface geometry that is complimentary to the interface geometry of the first end, one of the first end and the second end having at least one protrusion and the other of the first end and the second end defining at least one notch, the second end of the first connector received within the first end of the second connector to secure the first connector to the second connector, wherein the at least one protrusion of the first connector is received within the at least one notch of the second connector when the first connector is connected to the second connector in a connected position to prevent rotation of the first connector in relation to the second connector, wherein in the connected position the first connector cannot translate along the first axis (A1) towards the second connector;
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- a port coupled to the connector body between the first end and the second end, the port including a port body having a head defining an opening, the port body defining an inner cavity that communicates with the opening and with the conduit of the connector body, the inner cavity defining a second axis (A2) that is transverse to the first axis (A1), the head of the port body including a luer fitting to facilitate engagement with a means for administering medical fluid;
- wherein each of the first end and the second end of the connector body includes a proximal end adjacent to the port and a distal end spaced from the port;
- wherein the at least one protrusion is positioned radially outward of the conduits of the connector body of the first connector and the second connector on the proximal end of the first end or the second end adjacent to the port, and the at least one notch of the connector body of the first connector and the second connector is positioned on the distal end of the first end or the second end of the connector body of the first connector and the second connector spaced from the port;
- wherein the first interface geometry of the first connector and the second connector is a female luer slip interface geometry and the second interface geometry of the first connector and the second connector is a male luer slip interface geometry.
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A manifold comprising:
- a first connector and a second connector, each of the first connector and the second connector including:
- a connector body defining a conduit and including a first end and a second end, the conduit extending through the first end and the second end and defining a first axis (A1), the first end and the second end having a female or a male luer slip interface geometry, one of the first end and the second end having first anti-rotation means and the other of the first end and the second end having second anti-rotation means, the second end of the first connector received within the first end of the second connector to secure the first connector to the second connector, the first anti-rotation means received within the second anti-rotation means in snap-fit fashion when the first connector is connected to the second connector in a connected position to prevent rotation of the first connector in relation to the second connector, wherein in the connected position the first connector cannot translate along the first axis (A1) towards the second connector;
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- a port coupled to the connector body of the first connector and the second connector between the first end and the second end, the port including a port body having a head defining an opening, the port body defining an inner cavity that defines a second axis (A2) that is transverse to the first axis (A1) and communicates with the opening and with the conduit of the connector body;
- wherein each of the first end and the second end of the connector body includes a proximal end adjacent to the port and a distal end spaced from the port;
- wherein the first anti-rotation means is positioned radially outward of the conduits of the connector body of the first connector and the second connector on the proximal end of the first end or the second end adjacent to the port, and the second anti-rotation means of the connector body of the first connector and the second connector is positioned on the distal end of the first end or the second end of the connector body of the first connector and the second connector spaced from the port.
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A manifold comprising:
- a first connector and a second connector, each of the first connector and the second connector including:
- a connector body defining a conduit and including a first end and a second end, the conduit extending through the first end and the second end and defining a first axis (A1), the first end and the second end having a female luer slip interface geometry or a male luer slip interface geometry;
- a port coupled to the connector body between the first end and the second end, the port including a port body having a head defining an opening, the port body defining an inner cavity that defines a second axis (A2) that is transverse to the first axis (A1) and communicates with the opening and with the conduit of the connector body;
- wherein each of the first end and the second end of the connector body includes a proximal end adjacent to the port and a distal end spaced from the port;
- a first anti-rotation member positioned on the proximal end of the first end of the connector body and including a protrusion;
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- a second anti-rotation member positioned on the distal end of the second end of the connector body including a notch;
- wherein the first anti-rotation member of the first connector is axially movable in a longitudinal direction along the first axis (A1) into engagement with the second anti-rotation member of the second connector to prevent rotation of the first connector in relation to the second connector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.