Delivering and/or receiving fluids

US9730624B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Javier Gonzalez-Zugasti · North Billerica, US
• A. David Boccuti · Arlington, US
• Donald E. Chickering, III · Framingham, US
• Mark Michelman · Reading, US
• Ramin Haghgooie · Arlington, US
• Shawn Davis · Santa Monica, US
• Scott James · Epping, US
• Maisam Dadgar · Cambridge, US
• Greg Fisher · Boston, US
• Richard L. Miller · Needham, US
• Christopher J. Morse · Malden, US
• Howard Bernstein · Cambridge, US
• Douglas Levinson · Sherborn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 11, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 15, 2017
• Expiry date: Aug 19, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2037/0023
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention generally relates to receiving bodily fluid through a device opening. In one aspect, the device includes a flow activator arranged to cause fluid to be released from a subject. A deployment actuator may actuate the flow activator in a deployment direction, which may in turn cause fluid release from a subject. The flow activator may also be moved in a retraction direction by a retraction actuator. In one aspect, the device may include a vacuum source that may help facilitate fluid flow into the opening of the device and/or may help facilitate fluid flow from the opening to a storage chamber. In one aspect, a device actuator may enable fluid communication between the opening and the vacuum source and the flow activator may be actuated after the enablement of fluid communication.