Arrangement for heating a medical fluid, medical functional device, medical treatment apparatus and method

US9285137B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Arne Peters · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Michael Herrenbauer · Neu-Anspach, DE
• Stefan Kreber · Riegelsberg, DE
• Christoph Wiktor · Gelnhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 18, 2011
• Grant date: Mar 15, 2016
• Expiry date: Jun 2, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2205/3673
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An arrangement for heating a medical fluid includes at least one electrically operated first heating device including at least one first warm section heating during operation of the first heating device and at least one first cold section cooling during operation of the first heating device; a first area for receiving the medical fluid to be heated, in which the first area is in heat exchange relation with the first warm section of the first heating device; and a second area that is in heat exchange relation with the first cold section of the first heating device. A medical functional device, a medical treatment apparatus as well as methods for setting and/or maintaining the temperature of a medical fluid are also described.