US 2026/0294572 A1Published application

Through-Barrier Connection Systems and Methods

AssigneeBard Access Systems, Inc.

InventorsZachary Jarrod Traina, Matthew Lee Kolb, Bradley M. Wilkinson

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Abstract

Through-barrier connection systems and methods establish safe, routine, functional connections between sterile single-use medical devices and non-sterile multiple-use medical devices through procedural barriers. For example, a through-barrier connection system includes a single-use connector of a single-use medical device and a multiple-use connector of a multiple-use medical device or a patch cable. The single-use connector includes a plug wholly concealed in a plug housing for piercing a procedural barrier with its tip section. The multiple-use connector includes a receptacle within a receptacle housing that receives the plug when an insertable portion of the housing receptacle is inserted into a receptacle-receiving cavity of the plug housing. The receptacle includes an internal electrical interface for establishing an electrical connection with an external electrical interface of the plug. The receptacle also includes an extended optical interface wholly concealed in the receptacle for establishing an optical connection with a recessed optical interface of the plug.

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Dependent claims

A through-barrier connection system for establishing a multimodal functional connection between sterile single-use medical devices and non-sterile multiple-use medical devices through procedural barriers, comprising:

a single-use connector of a single-use medical device, the single-use connector including:
a plug housing including a receptacle-receiving cavity;
and
a plug extending from a closed end portion of the plug housing toward an opposite, open end portion of the plug housing but wholly concealed in the plug housing, the plug including:
a tip section with an angled leading edge configured to pierce a procedural barrier;
an external electrical interface for establishing an electrical connection;
and
a recessed optical interface recessed into the plug for establishing an optical connection;
and
a multiple-use connector including:
a receptacle housing including an insertable portion that inserts into the receptacle-receiving cavity of the plug housing;
and
a receptacle within the receptacle housing that receives the plug, the receptacle including:
an internal electrical interface for establishing the electrical connection with the external electrical interface of the plug of the single-use connector;
and
an extended optical interface extending from a closed end portion of the receptacle toward an opposite, open end portion of the receptacle but wholly concealed in the receptacle, the extended optical interface for establishing the optical connection with the recessed optical interface of the plug of the single-use connector.

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