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AssigneeStrato Medical Corporation
InventorsJ. Christopher Flaherty, William J. Gorman, Paul V. Fenton, Jr., Kelly A. Moynihan, Andrew M. Mailloux, Thomas M. Young
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A connector for detachably securing an end of a tube, such as a catheter, to a fluid port of a fluid transfer device, such as an implantable device, the connector having a body part which defines a coupler for coupling to a coupler receiver of the transfer device. The connector includes a sleeve which fits within the body part and defines an aperture for compressively receiving an end of the tube which has been fitted over a fluid port of the transfer device. The body part is rotatable about the sleeve to facilitate coupling of the coupler and coupler receiver. In one embodiment the sleeve has an inner diameter at one end large enough to slide freely over the tube when it is fitted over the fluid port, and the diameter decreases at an intermediate point along the length of the sleeve to provide for compressive axial movement of the tube to form an annular thickness portion of the tube where it abuts the face of the transfer device.
Connector apparatus for coupling an end of a resilient tube about the exterior of a tubular extension of a fluid transfer device, said tube having a nominal inner diameter d' and having a wall thickness t when positioned about the exterior of said tubular extension, said extension extending along a port axis and having an outer diameter d, and a length at least equal to l.sub.2, where d is greater than or equal to d', said connector apparatus comprising:
A connector apparatus for coupling an end of a resilient tube about the exterior of a tubular extension of a fluid transfer device, said extension extending along a port axis and having an outer diameter d, said connector apparatus comprising:
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