# US 7,743,918 B2 · Catheter package

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- Number: US 7,743,918 B2
- Document ID: US7743918B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 10/594,727
- Filed: 2005-03-30
- Published: 2007-08-23
- Granted: 2010-06-29
- Earliest claimed: 2004-03-31
- Assignees: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Yasushi Itou; Jun Iwami; Shigeki Numata
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7743918B2

## CPC

- A61M 25/002: {Packages specially adapted therefor (combined with means for introducing catheters, e.g. dispensers, A61M25/0113); catheter kit packages (for surgical articles A61B50/30)}
- A61B 50/24: Stands (Mayo stands A61B50/15)
- A61B 50/30: Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments (for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40)
- A61B 50/33: Trays
- A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)}
- A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D)

## Abstract

A package for a catheter that holds the distal part of the catheter in a natural state and the proximal part of the catheter in a curled state. The package is comprised of two trays that are bridged by the catheter and are held together by a slidable fixing member.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A catheter packaged in a catheter package, the catheter package comprising two trays, each tray comprising a bottom and upstanding sidewalls, the catheter comprising a catheter body having a distal portion and a proximal portion, a tube wall defining a lumen passing through from the distal portion to the proximal portion and a metal reinforce member embedded in the tube wall, and a connector part fixed to the proximal portion of the catheter body, wherein the catheter package holds the distal portion of the catheter of 10 to 50 cm in length in a natural state with no external force exerted thereon, and the catheter package holds the remaining proximal side of the catheter in a curled state with a curvature diameter of 10 to 50 cm,
wherein the catheter is held astride over the two trays, the two trays being integrated with each other by at least one fixing member, and wherein the at least one fixing member is slidably fitted over the sidewalls of the two trays.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The catheter of claim 1, wherein the catheter package comprises a plurality of independent trays, an upstanding sidewall of one of the plurality of trays being in back-to-back relationship with an upstanding sidewall of an other of the plurality of trays.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The catheter of claim 2, wherein a cutout extends through the back-to-back upstanding sidewalls, a portion of the catheter being positioned in the cutout.