US 9,168,366 B2Granted

Medical connector with closeable luer connector

AssigneeICU Medical, Inc.

InventorsThomas F. Fangrow, Bruce Hubrecht, Harold Anderson, Christopher Lopez

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Abstract

Some embodiments relate to a luer connector comprising a housing having a hollow bore therethrough, a first end, and a second end, a male luer tip supported by the housing configured to rotate with respect to the housing, the luer tip having a first open end and a passageway through the luer tip in fluid communication with the first open end, and a substantially rigid internal member extending into the passageway of the luer tip toward the first open end of the luer tip. In some embodiments, at least one of the luer tip and the internal member can be axially moveable between a first closed position and a second open position relative to the other of the luer tip and the internal member. Further, the luer tip and the internal member can cooperate such that rotation of the luer tip in a first direction relative to the housing increases an axial displacement between the first open end of the luer tip and an end portion of the internal member.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A luer connector comprising:

a housing having a hollow bore, a first end, and a second end;
a male luer tip supported by the housing configured to rotate with respect to the housing, the male luer tip having an opening in a first end thereof and a passageway through the male luer tip in fluid communication with the opening in the first end thereof;
and
an internal member extending into the passageway of the male luer tip toward the opening in the first end thereof, the internal member having an opening in a first end thereof and a passageway through the internal member in fluid communication with the opening in the first end thereof;
wherein:
the male luer tip is rotatable between a first position and a second position relative to the internal member;
in the first position, the opening in the first end of the male luer tip is substantially offset with respect to the opening in the first end of the internal member so as to substantially prevent a flow of fluid through the male luer tip;
and
in the second position, the opening in the first end of the male luer tip is substantially aligned with respect to the opening in the first end of the internal member so that fluid is permitted to flow through the male luer tip.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/177,548Filed 11 Feb 2014 · continuation in part
Priority: 19 Dec 2008
Published: US 2014/0303601 A19 Oct 2014
Granted: 27 Oct 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A61M 39/10
Tubes, tube connectors, tube couplings, valves, access sites or the like, specially adapted for medical use: tube connectors or tube couplings
A61M 39/26
Valves or arrangement of valves: valves closing automatically on disconnecting the line and opening on reconnection thereof
A61M 2039/1027
Tube connectors or tube couplings: quick-acting type connectors
A61M 2039/1072
Tube connectors or tube couplings: with a septum present in the connector

Family

Application61/139,514Us provisional application · filed 19 Dec 2008
Application12/641,283Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Dec 2009
Application61/332,103Us provisional application · filed 6 May 2010
Application13/100,508Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 4 May 2011
US 2014/0303601 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Oct 2014
US 8,647,310 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 8,679,090 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2010/0174242 A1Published application
US 2011/0276035 A1Published application
US 9,168,366 B2This patent

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