Abstract: A patient ventilator oxygen concentration system (S) has an input air supply (10) for supplying an input gas (12) at a desired pressure. An oxygen concentrating system (14) produces an oxygen concentrated gas output (16) and includes at least 2 operable molecular sieve bed modules (18). An input flow line (22) communicates input gas from the input air supply (10) to the molecular sieve bed modules (18). A medical grade air system (24) produces a medical grade air output (26). The oxygen concentrating system (14) and the medical grade air system (24) are connected in a parallel flow path of the input gas from the input air supply (10). A switch unit system (V) is in an input flow path (22) of the oxygen concentrating system (14) for controllably curtailing a portion of the input gas supplied by the input air supply (10) to at least one molecular sieve bed module (18) while having no input gas reduction effect on remaining molecular sieve bed modules.

Abstract: The present invention called a patient ventilator oxygen concentration system advantageously utilizes an existing suitable air supply and provides a modular oxygen concentrator that uses the existing air supply and a medical grade air filtration package for providing medical grade using the existing air supply. The oxygen concentrator has multiple bed pairs which can be selectively activated. If one of the multiple bed pairs is not activated, the excess air provided by the existing air supply is filtered and medical grade air is supplied instead of oxygen gas for use with patient ventilators. Advantageously, the present invention obtains a large increase in medical grade air flow at the expense of very little oxygen flow while maintaining oxygen purity using the existing air supply. The present invention provides a pneumatic circuit which is capable due to a modular bed design. Each bed pair uses approximately three SCFM (80 SLPM) to produce five SLPM of oxygen.