Patents Assigned to B. Braun Melsungen AG
  • Patent number: 12259048
    Abstract: A check valve includes a pot-shaped valve body. The valve body has a lateral wall, a bottom wall, and an opening opposite the bottom wall. The valve body includes an elastic material. The elastic material is cut along a cut. The elastic material includes a material processed by liquid injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventor: Christof Schlitt
  • Patent number: 12257211
    Abstract: A medical fluid transfer apparatus for transferring hazardous liquid medication in a fluid-tight manner. The apparatus includes a first connector portion having a first passage for fluid-tight connection to a medical syringe; a second connector portion having a second passage for fluid-tight connection to a medical liquid reservoir; a fluid channel extending between the first passage and the second passage, which permits a fluid-conducting transfer of the medication liquid between the syringe and the liquid reservoir; and an equalization container having an equalization volume, which is connected to the liquid reservoir in a fluid-conducting manner, and which is designed to receive a gas volume displaced during transfer of the medication liquid out of the liquid reservoir. The first passage and the second passage are connected to each other in a fluid-conducting manner via the equalization volume, which forms a fluid channel portion of the fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Karl Martin Berg, Nathanael Fischer, Florin Kopp, Konstantin Krug-Sauer
  • Publication number: 20250082909
    Abstract: A catheter assembly having a catheter hub and a needle hub having an interior, an adaptor having a tip is disposed in the interior of the needle hub, and a guidewire dispenser having a connection tip located in a bore of the adaptor. A guidewire can extend through the dispenser and into the adaptor for use to guide a catheter tube. The adaptor can have a valve to restrict or limit blood flow in the proximal direction. Gas channels can be provided on an exterior of the adaptor to facilitate air venting and blood flashback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: B. BRAUN MELSUNGEN AG
    Inventors: Teng Lip KHOO, Lilian Zhi Ling LEW, Mohd Zairizal BIN ZAKARIA, Chee Mun PHANG, Keng Seang TAN, Kavintharan N/A, Dominik JAROS, Andre WEISS
  • Patent number: 12204731
    Abstract: A medical pump for conveying a medical liquid includes a pump housing and a lid housing attachable to the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Jan Schwarz, Christoph Erlen, Stephan Hoevel, Norbert Koop, Jan Sokoll, Stefan Espenhahn, Joachim Schuetz, Yvonne Fischbach, Gerhard Schoeffel
  • Patent number: 12186527
    Abstract: A modular arrangement system for arranging medical devices, in particular infusion pumps, and a device having a housing which forms the modular arrangement system. The system has at least two arrangement modules which can be mechanically connected to one another. A first arrangement module has a first housing part with a first coupling structure arranged on at least two diametrically opposed sides. A second arrangement module has a second housing part adapted to be mounted on, below or laterally to the first housing part. The second housing part has a bar rotatably or slidably mounted in the second housing part for locking the two housing parts. The bar is designed in such a way that, by a singular actuation, it engages into the first coupling structure on at least two diametrically opposite sides of the first housing part, preferably simultaneously in an undercutting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Christoph Erlen, Hans-Josef Gerlach, Andreas Schüssler, Thomas Spörl
  • Patent number: 12178611
    Abstract: Catheters (104) with monitoring capabilities that can upload sensed or acquired data to a smart device (120) and/or a Cloud server (130). One or more sensors (106) can be located with a catheter assembly to collect data. The collected data can be processed by data analytics to analyze the data for usable information, such as to spot trends, patterns, and cause-effect relationships of the various detected conditions. The information can be viewed using an App or a web-browser dashboard or a local monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Juergen Friedhelm Peter Schloesser, Hang Khiang Chng, Aik Aun Tan, Chee Mun Phang, Jarryd Keng Gene Ng
  • Patent number: 12171981
    Abstract: A pump device for conveying a medical fluid, the pump device includes a membrane forming a pump volume. The membrane is expanded in a filling state of the pump volume with the medical fluid. The expanded membrane exerts a delivery pressure on the pump volume to deliver the medical fluid into a fluid-line system. The pump device also has a throttle device with a channel having an inlet connected to the pump volume and an outlet connectable to the fluid-line system. The delivery of the medical fluid through the outlet is finely adjustable to a flow rate at a time of manufacture. The throttle device has two bodies. The channel is formed between oppositely arranged surfaces of the bodies. The oppositely arranged surfaces are movable relative to each other for the fine adjustment of the flow rate during the manufacture, so that an effective length of the channel is variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventor: Karsten Haslbeck
  • Patent number: 12171980
    Abstract: A medical fluid-line arrangement and a medical elastomeric pump having such a fluid-line arrangement. The fluid-line arrangement transfers a medical fluid between a medical elastomeric pump and a patient port. The fluid-line arrangement has a fluid-line channel with an inlet and an outlet. The inlet connects to an outlet of the elastomeric pump, and the outlet connects to the patient port. A throttle element is connected in a fluid-conducting manner to the inlet and outlet of the fluid-line channel. A portion of the fluid-line channel extends through the throttle element. The throttle element causes a narrowing of an active-flow cross section of the fluid-line channel. The throttle element is encapsulated at least partially in a thermally conductive body having a heat-absorption surface that is larger than an outer surface of the throttle element and that is intended to be applied flat to a skin surface of a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Karsten Haslbeck, Jens Wildhagen
  • Patent number: 12138222
    Abstract: A medicinal product, in particular a sterile medicinal product, includes a flexible mono-chamber container and an aqueous liquid containing bicarbonate and having a physiological pH value. The container includes a first side wall and a second side wall. The first side wall and the second side wall include a barrier material capable of preventing or retarding escape of carbon dioxide from the container and/or intake of carbon dioxide into the container such that the pH value of the aqueous liquid is maintained or substantially maintained during a shelf life at room temperature of the medicinal product for at least 12 months.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Vincent Adamo, Hervé Jean Schwebel
  • Publication number: 20240358978
    Abstract: A catheter assembly having a catheter unit with a catheter hub having a hub body and a catheter tube and an integrated needle unit having a needle hub with a body and having a needle with a needle lumen extending out a distal end of the needle hub. The needle hub has aa distal path having a distal path opening and having the needle attached to an end of the distal path, a proximal path having a proximal path opening and a rear-most opening, and a working surface on a working platform located between the distal path opening and the proximal path opening. A guidewire can optionally pass between the distal path and the proximal path and cause to dispenser when pressed against the working surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: B. BRAUN MELSUNGEN AG
    Inventor: Hui Kuun Teoh
  • Patent number: 12115346
    Abstract: An infusion arrangement for administering a medical fluid includes a medical elastomer pump that produces a delivery pressure dependent on expansion and thus is variable over an infusion duration, a fluid conduit path provided for discharging the medical fluid from the elastomer pump, and a fluid control device arranged in the fluid conduit path and designed to influence a volumetric flow of the medical fluid delivered through the fluid conduit path by the elastomer pump. The fluid control device has a hydraulic flow-regulating valve designed to regulate the volumetric flow to a setpoint value and is provided with a throttle action that is automatically variable at least in accordance with the delivery pressure. The infusion arrangement can be used in infusion therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Jens Stettner, Jens Wildhagen
  • Patent number: 12118261
    Abstract: An apparatus for a safety-relevant application and a method for operating the apparatus. The apparatus has a user interface to display digits. The digits are intended to be filled with numerical values by a user. The user interface is designed to limit a selection of digits available for a user input when a numerical value is input by the user, for example the user's first input, for one of the digits that are to be filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Christoph Erlen, James Richard Green, Mike Hoellerich
  • Patent number: 12097205
    Abstract: An aqueous composition includes a dihydrotriazine compound of the general formula below, where R1 means (i) a phenyl group or phenylalkyl group, (ii) a naphthyl group or naphthylalkyl group, (iii) a heterocyclic group, heterocyclic alkyl group or heterocyclic aminoalkyl group, (iv) an alkyl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms or (v) a cycloalkyl group or cycloalkylalkyl group, R1? means a hydrogen atom bonded to the nitrogen atom at position 1 or 3 of the dihydrotriazine ring, R2 and R3 each mean a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R4 means an alkyl group having 7 to 16 carbon atoms and the dashed line indicates that a double bond is positioned either between positions 1 and 2 or between positions 2 and 3 of the dihydrotriazine ring, or a tautomer thereof or a salt thereof and a defoamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Arndt, Natalie Dück, Michael Kurz
  • Patent number: 12100505
    Abstract: A validation system includes at least one medical device for connection to a patient. Both the medical device and the patient have at least one identification marker. The validation system also has an identification device with a display that is configured to read the identification markers. The validation system further includes a server that communicates with the at least one medical device and the identification device. The server assigns the at least one medical device to a corresponding patient according to an assignment process. A reviewer reviews the assignment in a reviewing process that is independent of the assignment process. A method ensures that at least one item of patient information and/or location information is assigned to at least one medical device and that the assignment is reviewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventor: Horst Schmoll
  • Patent number: 12083312
    Abstract: A supporting or holding device for the position-safe holding of one or more medical fluid pumps during operation. The supporting or holding device has a basic body and a plurality of vertically spaced trays that project from a front side of the basic body. Each vertically spaced tray is adapted to receive a medical fluid pump. The supporting or holding device includes, at an uppermost end, an intelligent cover for the centralized representation of alarm(s) of the one or more medical fluid pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Jan Schwarz, Peter Heine, Sebastian Hoernig, Guenter Schmid
  • Patent number: 12076298
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bag containing preprepared injectable drug(s) and/or diluents for injectable drugs to be administered by intravenous (IV) application to a patient, said bag having an integrated flushing option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Frédéric Ravussin, Michel Pittet
  • Publication number: 20240285237
    Abstract: A smart intravenous catheter (IVC) assembly includes a stabilization platform configured to hold an IVC in a fixed position relative to tissue of a patient, and a sensor module mechanically supported by the stabilization platform. The sensor module includes at least one sensor configured to sense a physical characteristic of the tissue of the patient and produce sensed data representing the physical characteristic of tissue of the patient, and a transceiver configured to transmit the sensed data to a smart device remote from the stabilization platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Jo Ann Hang, Sharienna Sharman, Aik Aun Tan, Jia Choon Law
  • Publication number: 20240277972
    Abstract: A catheter assembly having a catheter unit with a catheter hub, a hub extension with a cavity or pocket receiving at least part of the catheter hub, and a tab adaptor removably attached to the catheter hub or to the hub extension. A needle projects through the catheter hub and the catheter tube and has a needle hub attached to an end of the needle. The tab adaptor is enlarged or oversized and is removable following successful venipuncture. The hub extension has a large flat bottom surface to increase the surface-to-surface contact with a patient, and to minimize rolling the catheter hub during connector change out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Kavintharan, Siti Nurulhidayah Marzuki, Mimi Mawar Atikah Mohd Mahadzir
  • Patent number: 12048827
    Abstract: A coupling member for a closed fluid transfer system includes a housing having a fluid connection and a coupling side. The housing includes a longitudinal axis extending from the fluid connection toward the coupling side and a spike having a fluid opening. The fluid opening is arranged in an end portion of the spike facing the coupling side. A sealing member receptacle is arranged in the housing on the coupling side, and a sealing member is arranged in the sealing member receptacle. The housing includes a housing portion that at least partially surrounds the sealing member receptacle and a threaded portion. The coupling housing with the sealing member is guided by a guiding structure and movable in the direction of the longitudinal axis via the threaded portion between a position with maximum distance to the fluid connection and a position with minimum distance to the fluid connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Florin Kopp, Karl Martin Berg, Konstantin Krug-Sauer, Johannes Bolz
  • Patent number: D1060660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Maria Bürger, Christoph Erlen, Stefan Espenhahn, Norbert Koop, Joachim Schütz, Matthias Schwalm, Jan Sokoll