# US 8,465,450 B2 · Suction device for piston breast pump > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,465,450 B2 - Document ID: US8465450B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/377,821 - Filed: 2010-02-04 - Published: 2012-04-12 - Granted: 2013-06-18 - Earliest claimed: 2009-06-18 - Assignees: Shenzhen Siyong Technology Ltd. - Applicants: Paul Wen Guo - Inventors: Paul Wen Guo - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8465450B2 ## CPC - A61M 1/06: Milking pumps - A61M 1/81: {Piston pumps, e.g. syringes} - A61M 1/0693: {with programmable or pre-programmed sucking patterns} - A61M 2205/073: Syringe, piston type - 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)} ## Abstract A vertically hand palm pressing suction device for a piston breast pump includes a casing and a piston suction member. The device is provided with a pressing handle, which goes through the casing and is fixedly connected with a gear shaft mounted on a base. A piston of the piston suction member is connected to a toothed rack. The pressing handle and the toothed rack are operatively connected through a gear member, wherein the connection converts up-and-down movement of the pressing handle into forth-and-back movement of the piston. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, comprising: a casing (3); a base (4) provided on said casing and comprises a gear shaft (5) provided thereon; a piston unit for providing suction, and comprises: a handle (1) mounted to said base and extended outside said casing and arranged for pressing; a cylinder member (12); a piston member (19); a toothed member (17) connected to said piton member; and a gear unit operatively connected with said toothed member (17) and said handle (1) such that said toothed member and said handle are connected such that a reciprocating movement of said handle in an up and down direction is changed into a reciprocate movement of said piston member at a back and forth direction, wherein said gear unit comprises a first gear (6) mounted on an exterior end of said gear shaft (5), a second gear (7) operatively connected to said first gear for serving as an intermediate gear, and a third gear (10) having a diameter smaller than a diameter of said first gear and cooperatively connected to said first gear through said second gear by gear transmission, and a fourth gear (17) having a diameter which is larger than said third gear coaxially positioned with said third gear while in gear connection with said toothed member (17); and a third shaft member rotatably supporting said third gear (10) and as resilient member (14) provided on a protruded end portion or said third shaft member. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 1, further comprising a roller unit (32) engaged with a guiding groove (33) of said toothed member (17), wherein said guiding groove is provided at a bottom end of said toothed member such that said roller unit is guided to secure into position through said guiding groove of said toothed member. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 2, wherein said base (4) comprises a shaft support member defining a supporting side (35) which has an inclined surface, and two gear shafts for said first gear and said fourth gear respectively, wherein said gear shaft for said first gear and said gear shaft for said fourth gear are sequentially aligned from an upper end towards a lower end of said inclined surface of said supporting side of said shaft support member along a direction of said handle. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 1, wherein said piston unit further comprises a control valve arrangement which comprises a control valve (22) an inlet (23), a tapered unit (30), control shaft (20), a control core (21), an outlet and a control valve cavity, wherein said tapered unit is rotatably providing in said control valve cavity through a screw engagement in such a manner that said tapered unit is positioned between said inlet and said outlet and is arranged for providing a back and forth movement, which is driven by a rotational movement of said control shaft with which said control core is locked into position through an axial movement of said control shaft. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 4, wherein said control shaft further comprises a control head (31) at one end of said control shaft which is extended outside said casing (3). ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 1, further comprising two sealing plates (36, 37), wherein said casing has an opening through which said handle is extended outside said casing, said two sealing plates are extended from two sides of said handle at said opening of said casing, wherein a junction between said two sealing plates has a resilient thin wedge structure. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 2, further comprising two sealing plates (36, 37), wherein said casing has an opening through which said handle is extended outside said casing, said two sealing plates are extended from two sides of said handle at said opening of said casing, wherein a junction between said two sealing plates has a resilient thin wedge structure. ### Claim 8 (depends on 3) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 3, further comprising two sealing plates (36, 37), wherein said casing has an opening through which said handle is extended outside said casing, said two sealing plates are extended front two sides of said handle at said opening of said casing, wherein a junction between said two sealing plates has a resilient thin wedge structure. ### Claim 9 (depends on 4) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 4, further comprising two sealing plates (36, 37), wherein said casing has an opening through which said handle is extended outside said casing, said two sealing plates are extended from two sides of said handle at said opening of said casing, wherein a junction between said two sealing plates has a resilient thin wedge structure. ### Claim 10 (depends on 5) The breast pump with a piston suction arrangement, as recited in claim 5, further comprising two sealing plates (36, 37), wherein said casing has an opening through which said handle is extended outside said casing, said two sealing plates are extended from two sides of said handle at said opening of said casing, wherein a junction between said two sealing plates has a resilient thin wedge structure.