Fluid line connector safety device

US8042838B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• NxStage Medical, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kenneth E. Buckler · Methuen, US
• David Farias De Souza · Essex, US
• Jeffrey H. Burbank · Boxford, US
• James M. Brugger · Boulder, US
• William K. Weigel · Portland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 2010
• Grant date: Oct 25, 2011
• Expiry date: May 18, 2030

Classification

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

Abstract

Devices can use various features to prevent the disconnection of connectors used in medical treatments. For example, a disconnection prevention member can have ends which hold luer connectors such that a male luer connector is prevented from separating from a female luer connector. The member can thus prevent disconnection of luer connectors that are incompletely mated.