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US 2026/0295131 A1Published application
Breast Pump
AssigneeMedela Holding AG
InventorsSebastian Hoener, Jakub Pawlowski, Martin Thuring
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AssigneeMedela Holding AG
InventorsSebastian Hoener, Jakub Pawlowski, Martin Thuring
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The present invention relates to a breast pump, in particular wearable inside a bra, including a breast shield adapted to at least in part receive a breast of a lactating user, an aggregate for generating suction for expressing milk from the breast, a milk container providing a reservoir for the expressed milk, an accelerometer and a controller operatively connected with the accelerometer and provided for controlling the aggregate. To determine the volume of expressed milk within the milk container with higher accuracy, the present invention proposes a sensor assigned to said reservoir for determining the milk level within the reservoir, wherein the controller is operatively connected with the sensor and wherein the controller is adapted to output a signal indicative of the risk of milk spillage from the reservoir on the basis of the signals received form the accelerometer and from the sensor.
A breast pump including abreast shield adapted to at least in part receive a breast of a lactating user, an aggregate for generating suction for expressing milk from the breast, a milk container providing a reservoir for the expressed milk, an accelerometer and a controller for controlling the aggregate, and further comprising a sensor assigned to said reservoir for determining the milk level within the reservoir, wherein said controller is operatively connected with said accelerometer and said sensor and is adapted to output a signal indicative of the risk of milk spillage from the reservoir on the basis of the signals received form the accelerometer and from said sensor.
A breast pump including a breast shield adapted to at least in part receive abreast of a lactating user, an aggregate for generating suction for expressing milk from the breast, a milk container providing a reservoir for the expressed milk, an accelerometer and a controller for controlling the aggregate, and further comprising a sensor assigned to the reservoir for determining the milk level within the reservoir, wherein the controller is operatively connected with said accelerometer and the sensor and is adapted to stop pumping in case a risk of milk spillage is detected on the basis of sensed signals received from the accelerometer and from the sensor and to automatically resume pumping when the milk spillage risk is uncritical on the basis of the signals received form the accelerometer and from said sensor.
A breast pump including a breast shield adapted to at least in part receive abreast of a lactating user, an aggregate for generating suction for expressing milk from the breast, a milk container providing a reservoir for the expressed milk, an accelerometer and a controller for controlling the aggregate, and further comprising a sensor assigned to the reservoir for determining the milk level within the reservoir, wherein the controller is operatively connected with said accelerometer and the sensor and is adapted to stop pumping in case a risk of milk spillage is detected on the basis of sensed signals received form the accelerometer and from said sensor and to alert the user about the risk of milk spillage by outputting at least one of an optical and an acoustic warning to the user as a signal indicative of the risk of milk spillage.
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