External functional means, blood treatment apparatus for receiving an external functional means in accordance with the invention, and method

US9808566B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Soeren Gronau · Gerolzhofen, DE
• Goetz Guenther · Oberursel, DE
• Juergen Haecker · Neu-Anspach, DE
• Martin Lauer · Sankt Wendel, DE
• Joachim Manke · Nordhausen, DE
• Dejan Nikolic · Bad Soden, DE
• Manfred Weis · Sankt Wendel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 23, 2010
• Grant date: Nov 7, 2017
• Expiry date: Jan 24, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B29L2031/753
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An external functional means comprises at least one housing body, at least one chamber integrated into the housing body for receiving medical fluids, at least one passage integrated into the housing body for receiving and/or conducting a medical fluid, and at least one valve means completely or partly integrated into the housing body for controlling or regulating a fluid flowing through the external functional means. The invention further specifies a blood treatment apparatus and methods which may be carried out by means of the external functional means of the invention and by means of the blood treatment apparatus, respectively.