Patents Assigned to Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limitied
  • Patent number: 9656039
    Abstract: The breathing assistance apparatus of the present invention includes a manifold that is provided with or retrofittable to gases supply and humidifying devices. The manifold allows gases from an oxygen concentrator to be combined with the flow through a gases supply and humidifying device, most usually air The combined output of oxygen and other breathing gases (air) is then humidified. The breathing assistance apparatus and manifold of the present invention provides a safe method to add oxygen to the input air stream of a gases supply and humidifying device and reduces the amount of accumulation of oxygen within the gases supply device, reducing fire risk should sparking occur within the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limitied
    Inventors: Martin Paul Friedrich Kramer, Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Christopher Simon James Quill, Matthew Jon Payton
  • Patent number: D790054
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limitied
    Inventors: Craig Robert Prentice, Bernard Tsz Lun Ip, Mark Arvind McLaren, Kyle Gregory Brown, Chris Onin Limpin Hipolito, Mark Richard Tomlinson, Melissa Catherine Bornholdt