Machine for extracorporeal blood treatment coupled to a support element
AssigneeGambro Lundia AB
InventorsClaudio Tonelli, Vincenzo Baraldi, Massimo Zaccarelli, Annalisa Delnevo, Francesco Ribolzi, Jacques Chevallet, Jacques Duchamp, Aziz Aberkane, Gabriel Meyssonnier, Dominique Pouchoulin
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Abstract
The invention relates to support element (4) comprising a main body (6) having a front wall (25) and a peripheral wall (32) projecting away from the front wall. The front wall and the peripheral wall define a housing compartment (33) designed to receive a fluid distribution circuitry cooperating with a treatment unit for defining an integrated blood treatment module.
Claims45
A machine for extracorporeal blood treatment comprising a body having a surface having a given number of pumps configured to cooperate with a fluid distribution circuitry, wherein the machine body has a guiding and positioning projection protruding from the surface configured to be coupled, when in use, with a respective peripheral wall of a support element, said support element comprising a main body having a front wall and at least a peripheral wall projecting away from said front wall, said front wall and said peripheral wall defining a housing compartment, said front wall being delimited by first and second opposite longer sides with a basically rectilinear development, each of said first and second opposite longer sides having first and second curved portions forming a cavity facing a respective opposite longer side, said front wall being further delimited by first and second opposite shorter sides with a basically rectilinear development, at least one of said first and second opposite shorter sides having a third curved portion configured between first and second rectilinear lengths, a cavity formed by said third curved portion facing the other of said first and second opposite shorter sides;
- the support element further comprising at least one pair of tube engagement connectors, each of said at least one pair of tube engagement connectors being placed on opposite ends of each of said first, second, and third curved portions.
A machine for extracorporeal blood treatment comprising:
- a body having a surface, said surface having a number of pumps configured to cooperate with a fluid distribution circuitry, the machine body having a guiding and positioning projection protruding from the surface,
- said guiding and positioning projection being configured to be coupled, when in use, with a respective peripheral wall of a support element;
- said support element presenting a main body having a box-shaped structure having a front wall and a peripheral wall projecting away from said front wall, said peripheral wall defining an access opening configured to face said machine when the support element is engaged to the machine, said front wall and said peripheral wall defining a housing compartment enclosing the guiding and positioning projection and said pumps when the support element is engaged to the machine;
- wherein the guiding and positioning projection has a side surface substantially counter-shaped to the profile of the peripheral wall of the support element;
- wherein said pumps protrude from the surface of the machine body, at least a part of the side surface of said pumps being counter-shaped to the peripheral wall of the support element;
- wherein, when the support element is engaged to the machine, the peripheral wall of the support element surrounds the side surface of said pumps and of said guiding and positioning projection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.