Tubing connector

US5772255A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Abbott Laboratories · US

Inventors

• Robert Scott Osborne · Gahanna, US
• Carl Joseph Piontek · Powell, US
• Robert Donald Clegg · Pickerington, US
• Bradford Lynn Buck · Gahanna, US
• Matthew Scott Fleming · Columbus, US
• Joseph A. Juratovac · Columbus, US
• William Edward Patton · Columbus, US
• Kathryn E. Alexander · Columbus, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 21, 1995
• Grant date: Jun 30, 1998
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S604/905
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A tubing connector has first and second tubular legs joined together to provide a continuous fluid pathway therethrough with the fluid pathway having a bend of about 78 to 102 degrees therein. A foreshortened retention tab extends laterally from the tubing connector at about the bend in a direction opposed to the second leg of the tubing connector. A handle extends from the tubing connector at about a right angle to both the first and second legs and the retention tab. The tubing connector may be employed as a component of a fluid delivery set used with a pump for enteral or parenteral feeding of a patient.