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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsPaul Aelen, Johannes Petrus Antonius Maria Van Asseldonk, Arjan Teodor Van Wieringen
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A pump arrangement (5) for use with a breast pump device comprises a pump element (51), an expression kit air conduit (55) designed to allow for air connection of an expression kit (2) of the device to the pump arrangement (5), a volume element (54) configured to store vacuum in the pump arrangement (5), and a storage switching mechanism (58) arranged between the expression kit air conduit (55) and the volume element (54), configured to switch between a position of direct connection of the expression kit air conduit (55) to the volume element (54) at a bypass position with respect to the pump element (51) and a position of disconnection of the expression kit air conduit (55) from the volume element (54). Through a direct exchange of vacuum between an expression kit (2) and the volume element (54), support of the functioning of the pump element (51) is realized.
A pump arrangement, configured to be used with an expression kit designed to subject a breast of a user to a pressure profile and to receive milk expressed from the breast, the pump arrangement comprising:
A breast pump device, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.