Auto shut off male luer fitting
AssigneeCareFusion 303, Inc.
InventorsRyan Callahan, Todd Oda, George Mansour
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Abstract
A medical connector may include a body having an outer surface and an inner surface defining a lumen of the body, an inlet port defined at a proximal end of the body, and an outlet port defined at a distal end of the body. The medical connector may further include a compressible valve member comprising a normally closed slit and disposed in the lumen and extending through the inner surface and outer surface of the body to an exterior of the medical connector. The compressible valve member may be configured to compress radially inward to open the slit upon insertion of the body into a medical access device, and expand radially outward to close the slit upon disconnection of the body from the medical access device.
Claims10
A medical connector comprising:
- a body having an outer surface, an inner surface, an inlet port defined at a proximal end of the body, an outlet port defined at a distal end of the body, the inner surface defining a fluid lumen of the body between the inlet port and the outlet port, and an opening extending from the inner surface to the outer surface of the body;
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- a compressible valve member disposed in the lumen of the body and comprising a normally closed slit and an outer surface with a portion that extends through the opening from the lumen of the body to the outer surface of the body,
- wherein the portion of the compressible valve member that extends through the opening is configured to compress radially inward to open the slit upon insertion of the body into a medical access device, and the portion of the compressible valve member is configured to expand radially outward to close the slit upon disconnection of the body from the medical access device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.