Universal disinfecting cap for different types of female connectors
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsPraveen Nalawade, Manish Kumar
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsPraveen Nalawade, Manish Kumar
Estimating the term…
A cap configured to engage different types of female connectors includes a housing having a closed bottom, an open top, and a sidewall extending between the top and the bottom with threads on an inner surface of the sidewall. The cap also includes a sleeve disposed in the housing with threads engaged to the threads of the housing configured to rotate relative to the housing, thereby moving the sleeve through the housing, and a gripper disposed at least partially in the sleeve having at least one flexible leg pressed radially inward by the sleeve as the sleeve moves through the housing. The cap also includes an absorbent support disposed in the gripper configured to clean and/or disinfect portions of the female connector.
A cap configured to engage female connectors, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.