Medical tubing set for the use with an improved radio frequency tubing sealer
AssigneeCobe Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsDennis J. Hlavinka, Frank Corbin, III, Robert L. White
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Abstract
A tubing set includes at least one fluid conveying tube. The fluid conveying tube has a predetermined outside diameter, and is formed of a material adapted to be dielectrically heated at a sealing location. The insulating sleeve has an inside dimension at least as large as the outside diameter of the fluid conveying tube. The tubular insulating sleeve is positioned in a substantially coaxial relationship with the fluid conveying tube at the sealing location, and has a wall with thickness which insulates the fluid conveying tube to permit sealing the fluid conveying tube, and forming a thin, easily tearable web, by the application of the radio frequency dielectric heating.
Claims24
A tubing set, the tubing set including at least one fluid conveying tube for conveying a fluid, the fluid conveying tube having a predetermined outside diameter and being formed of a material adapted to being heat sealed by an application of radio frequency dielectric heating at a sealing location, further comprising:
- an insulating sleeve having an inside dimension at least as large as the outside diameter of the fluid conveying tube, said tubular insulating sleeve being positioned in a substantially coaxial relationship with the fluid conveying tube at the sealing location and having a wall with a wall thickness which insulates the fluid conveying tube and permits sealing the fluid conveying tube and forming a thin, easily tearable, web by the application of the radio frequency dielectric heating.
An insulating sleeve for a fluid conveying tube, the fluid conveying tube having a predetermined outside diameter and being formed of a material adapted to being heat sealed by an application of radio frequency dielectric heating at a sealing location, the insulating sleeve comprising:
- a sleeve having an inside dimension at least as large as the outside diameter of the fluid conveying tube and adapted to being installed on the fluid conveying tube at the sealing location in a substantially coaxial relationship with the fluid conveying tube, said sleeve having a wall with a wall thickness which insulates the fluid conveying tube and permits sealing the fluid conveying tube and forming a thin, easily tearable, web by the application of the radio frequency dielectric heating.
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