US 2001/0020148 A1Published application

Medical device

AssigneeW.O.M. World of Medicine GmbH

InventorsJoachim Sasse, Matthias Stiller

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Abstract

A medical device with a medical apparatus (2) comprising an accessory port, and with at least one accessory piece (1) comprising a connection element being complementary to said accessory port, the connection element including a storage unit (K) where coded identification information are stored, with accessory piece (1) connected to device (2) coded or un-coded identification information being readable by means of a readout unit (P) disposed in the section of said accessory port and, in the case of reading coded identification information, being de-codable, read-out and de-coded identification information being compared to identification information stored in readout unit (P), and the medical device being activated when the identification information match the desired identification information, and being blocked when the identification information do not match, and coded identification information being de-codable by means of a proprietary key code

Claims13

Dependent claims

A medical device comprising a medical apparatus (2) comprising an accessory port, and at least one accessory piece (1) comprising a connection element being complementary to said accessory port,

the connection element comprising a storage unit (K) wherein coded identification information are stored,
wherein, if the accessory piece (1) is connected to the device (2), coded or un-coded identification information is readable from the storage unit (K) by means of a readout unit (P) located at or in the vicinity of said accessory port and, in the case of reading coded identification information, being de-codable,
wherein read-out and de-coded identification information is compared to preset (valid) identification information stored in readout unit (P), and wherein the medical device is activated if the identification information is at least partly matching the preset (valid) identification information, and is blocked if the identification information does not match,
and wherein coded identification information is de-coded by means of a proprietary key code prior to comparison with the preset (valid) identification information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/778,615Filed 7 Feb 2001
Priority: DE 100 05 108.17 Feb 2000
Published: 6 Sep 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

F04B 43/1253
Having peristaltic action: by using two or more rollers as squeezing elements, the rollers moving on an arc of a circle during squeezing
A61M 1/72
Suction drainage systems: cassettes forming partially or totally the fluid circuit
A61M 1/82
Suction pumps: membrane pumps, e.g. bulbs
A61M 3/0258
The liquid being pumped: by means of electric pumps