Patent · US Expired

Plug arrangement for connecting sterile and non-sterile apparatus

US5431641A · kind A · utility

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16Claims

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Assignee

Dornier Medizintechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

Reiner Grozinger · Gilching, DE
Roland Buck-Braunwarth · Überlingen, DE
Gerhard Buess · Tübingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 31, 1994
Grant date	Jul 11, 1995
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 31, 2014

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S604/905
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A plug-type connection is used for connecting at least one sterile electrical, optical and/or fluid-carrying line to at least one non-sterile apparatus with one line-side and one equipment-side plug unit respectively. The equipment-side plug unit is surrounded by at least one sterile foil which is clamped tightly between respective corresponding sealing and clamping edges of the line-side and the equipment-side plug units which surround the line to be plugged in. The line-side and/or equipment-side plug unit has a cutting device to cut the foil in the area of the lines to be contacted.

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