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Aspiration assembly having dual co-axial check valves

US4729401A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 29, 1987
Grant dateMar 8, 1988
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Expiry dateJan 29, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/789
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An aspiration assembly having dual co-axial check valves for pumping medical fluids with a hypodermic syringe, the assembly having a main body with two passageways in offset relationship to each other, with the passageways coming together at a large central cavity within the main body, a central support structure mounted within the central cavity of the main body, a pair of flexible resilient valve disks engaged by the central support structure, and a body cap having an outlet passageway therein for complementarily enclosing the central cavity of the main body and for retaining the central support structure and dual valve disk in co-axial relationship.

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