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| 20090118708 | Apparatus and method for sterile docking of male medical line connectors - A docking station for male medical line connectors, including a base housing securable to a stationary surface and having a plurality of docking bays, each of which is dimensioned and contoured for respectively receiving and temporarily retaining ampules containing sterilization fluid. Each of the ampules has a chamber therein containing the sterilization fluid and an access mouth exteriorly exposed when the ampule is secured in one of the bays, and each mouth has a female medical line connection dimensioned and contoured for temporarily receiving and securing a male medical line connector thereto with the tubular tip of the male connector immersed in sterilization fluid during the period of time that the infusion tubing is disconnected from the patient. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090137969 | Apparatus and method for sterilizing a tubular medical line port - A device for sterilizing a tubular medical line IV port. The device includes a cap having an open tubular cavity on a distal end which is dimensioned to receive the medical line port therein. A handle is provided on the proximal end of the device for grasping and manipulating the cap. An outer disinfectant-impregnated member is coaxially secured in the distal cavity and dimensioned for engaging and scrubbing exterior surfaces or threads of the tubular port when inserted into the cavity. An inner disinfectant-impregnated member may also be coaxially secured in the cavity to simultaneously scrub internal surfaces of the port. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20100050351 | Apparatus and method for sterilizing a tubular medical line port - An apparatus for sterilizing a tubular medical line port, having a cap with an open distal end and a cavity therein which is dimensioned to receive an outer scrubbing member and the medical line port. Outer disinfected-impregnated scrubbing member is coaxially received in the cavity and has a socket therein dimensioned for engaging exterior side surfaces of the tubular medical line port when inserted into the socket for thereby scrubbing exterior surfaces of the port with the scrubbing member by rotating the cap. The outer scrubbing member is axially displacable downwardly in the cavity by insertion of the medical line port therein from an upper position prior to use to a lower position where it is retained to thereby indicate that the apparatus has been used and should not therefore be reused. A reuse prevention insert is also provided in the cavity of the cap and is displacable with the outer scrubbing member from the upper position prior to use to the lower position during and after use. This insert is provided with inwardly protruding teeth that are biased for inward compression and thereby prevent re-access of a medical line port into the socket of the scrubbing member after removal of the medical line port. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057054 | Apparatus and method for sterile docking of male medical line connectors - A docking station for maintaining sterilization of temporarily disconnected male medical line connectors. The docking station has a plurality of docking bays, each of which retain an ampule therein containing sterilization fluid and have an access mouth exteriorly exposed when the ampule is secured in its respective bay. The mouth of the ampule is provided with a female medical line connection for temporarily receiving and securing a male line connector temporarily disconnected from the patient. The tubular tip and the concentric connection collar of the male connector is thereby immersed in the sterilization fluid for sterilization while docked. Each of the ampules is secured against rotation in the clockwise direction in their respective docking station bays to facilitate threadable connection of a male medical line connector. However, the ampules are permitted to freely rotate in the counterclockwise direction in their respective bays to prevent disconnection of a male medical line therefrom while the connected ampule is retained in its respective bay. This prevents accidental reuse of an ampule. The ampules are provided with laterally extending wings which are received in recesses in the respective bays. The recesses have inclined ramp surfaces for engaging the bottom of the wings and thereby ejecting the ampules out of the bays when rotated in the counterclockwise direction. | 03-04-2010 |
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| 20090047389 | BEVERAGE-INGREDIENT CAPSULE AND CAPSULE-BASED BEVERAGE PRODUCTION METHOD - A sealed capsule for containing an ingredient is provided with at least one essentially rigid inner jet direction-diverting member being arranged close to the inner side of a face of the capsule. The inner jet direction-diverting member is designed to divert the direction of at least a portion of a water jet injected through an opening produced in the face. The invention further proposes the dynamical profiling of inner channels in at least one face of the capsule by pressing the face of the capsule against a profiling member of the beverage production device. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20100147156 | CAPSULE WITH FLOW REGULATING TECHNOLOGY - A capsule comprising beverage ingredients therein, and including a closed enclosure hermetically sealed to gas; and a perforated flow-regulating disc member which is arranged in the closed enclosure, perpendicularly to the liquid flow path inside the capsule, and which is configured for separating the ingredients at least partially into at least two ingredient spaces and which enables liquid to spread more evenly and transversely across one ingredient space and to the periphery of the enclosure to facilitate extraction of the beverage ingredients in the ingredient spaces. The capsule also may include an insert located within the enclosure and having tubular portions which are respectively open away from the center of the enclosure, wherein the insert is centrally arranged inside the capsule, and the ingredients are entirely provided radially outside the tubular portions of the insert. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110003038 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A LIQUID EXTRACT FROM A CELL USING CENTRIFUGAL FORCES - A method for preparing a liquid comestible from a cell by passing liquid through the substance using centrifugal forces, wherein gas contained in the cell is controllably purged from the cell as liquid fills the cell. In one embodiment, the method includes prewetting the substance in the cell by filling liquid in the cell and rotating the cell at a first rotational speed; and then extracting the liquid comestible from the cell in an extraction phase which comprises continuing to fill liquid into the cell and rotating the cell at a second rotational speed that is higher than the first rotational speed. The invention also discloses a cell for use in these methods which cell includes a filter for preventing solids from being carried by gas during the gas purge. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110200725 | SEALING ADAPTER FOR A BEVERAGE EXTRACTION SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE FROM CARTRIDGES - Cartridge sealing adapter ( | 08-18-2011 |
