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AssigneeMedela Holding AG
InventorsBryan D. Simmons, Natalie J. Stevens, Daniel McGowan, Shane P. Einloth, Daniel J. Wright
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The invention relates to a pumping device for feeding liquid feed to a patient, which can be used and assembled economically. The pumping device has a pumping cartridge and a drive unit. The pumping cartridge provides a pumping chamber and a pumping channel and valve inlet and outlet locations. The drive unit comprises actuators for pumping and opening and closing the valves at the valve inlet and outlet locations and can releasably be connected with the pumping cartridge. While the pumping cartridge is a disposable part, the driving unit is provided for multiple uses for supplying batch of liquid feed to the patient.
A pumping device for pumping feed, comprising
A pumping cartridge adapted to be releasably coupled to a drive unit, the pumping cartridge having a pumping chamber and an inlet port and an outlet port, each of said intel port and outlet port being in fluid communication with said pumping chamber, the pumping cartridge further having a releasable connection for connecting the pumping cartridge to a drive unit.
A drive unit adapted to be releasably coupled to a pumping cartridge, wherein the drive unit comprises
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.