Patents Assigned to Dräger Medical GmbH
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Publication number: 20130247912Abstract: A respirator (1) and a mount for a respirator are provided including a mounting device for a cylinder (2), preferably an oxygen cylinder. The mounting device forms an upper housing half (4) and a lower housing half (3) of the respirator (1) and includes at least one grip (6), which makes transportation of the respirator (1) possible. The upper housing half (4) and lower housing half (3) are provided with a connection mechanism (5), which connects the upper housing half (4) and the lower housing half (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Judith LÖSER, Tobias OTTE, Uwe REIMANN, Thomas ROSSEN
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Patent number: 8528552Abstract: A device and a process for controlling a respirator with inclusion of an oxygen saturation value (34) for compensating a device-dependent time response (15), a physiological time response (16) and a measuring method-dependent time response (17) are described. The device-dependent time response (15), the physiological time response (16) and the measuring method-dependent time response (17) are determined in a continuous sequence and a run time of a change in the oxygen concentration from the metering means (9) in the respirator to the patient (4) is determined and taken into account in regulating the oxygen concentration.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventor: Tilman von Blumenthal
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Patent number: 8528546Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring a therapy device, for example, an anesthesia device or a respirator, is provided by which an alarm device for triggering an alarm when the value drops beyond a warning limit (4) is automatically activated when a determined therapy parameter drops beyond this warning limit (4). The warning limit (4) is set automatically in this case. In addition, a therapy device monitored by the monitoring device and especially an anesthesia device as well as a respirator are provided. A process for triggering an alarm as well as a process for treating a patient is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Draeger Medical GmbHInventors: Ralf Heesch, Robert Schmid
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Publication number: 20130224076Abstract: A medical device (10) for treating a patient, with a device body (12), at which at least one functional unit (14) to be operated manually by a treating person is arranged. The device (10) has a disinfection unit (20), which is provided separately from the functional unit and comprises a housing (22) arranged at the device body (12) with a disinfection chamber (26) for receiving at least one hand of the treating person, a plasma generator (28) arranged in the disinfection chamber for generating an atmospheric plasma (P) disinfecting the hand of the treating person and a control unit (50) for actuating the plasma generator (28).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: DRÄGER MEDICAL GMBHInventor: DRÄGER MEDICAL GMBH
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Publication number: 20130226073Abstract: A device (10) for disinfecting wound treatment is described, with a housing (18), with a plasma generator (54) arranged in housing (18) for generating a disinfecting plasma, with a flow module (52) arranged in housing (18) for generating a gas stream, which forms a free jet (32) transporting the disinfecting plasma from housing (18), and with a jet control unit (50) for affecting the free jet (32) in a planned manner by controlling the gas stream generated by flow module (52). Means (10) has, furthermore, a guide apparatus (56) controllable via the jet control unit (50) for guiding the free jet (32).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: DRÄGER MEDICAL GMBHInventor: DRÄGER MEDICAL GMBH
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Patent number: 8518025Abstract: A system is provided for clearing modes of operation on a multicomponent medical instrument with a basic instrument (1) and at least one connectable accessory instrument (4) for the basic instrument (1). The accessory instrument (4) is equipped with a wireless, readable data memory (2) for modes of operation of the medical instrument and the basic instrument (1) has a reading unit (3) for the data memory (2). The reading unit (3), when the accessory instrument (4) is connected, reaches a sending/receiving range for reading out the data.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Marita Kalfke, Andreas Otto, Gerd Wotha
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Patent number: 8505534Abstract: A humidifying device for breathing gases. The humidifying device has a housing with a recess, a heater, an evaporating chamber with a water feed, a breathing gas feed channel, a breathing gas outlet channel and at least one float element and at least one filling level indicator. The evaporating chamber can be introduced at least partially into the recess and is in contact with the heater to heat water and is designed to receive water from a water reservoir through the water feed. The at least one float element is guided in a floatingly movable manner on the water and is designed to close the feed of water above a water level set point in the evaporating chamber, and the at least one filling level indicator is designed to recognize the drop of the water level from the water level set point as a function of the position of the at least one float element.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Kai Brieger, Thomas Rossen, Markus Kämer, Ludger Tappehorn
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Patent number: 8496001Abstract: A process and a device/system are provided for the automatic identification of the type of a breathing tube. A memory element (5) is connected to the breathing tube (4). The memory element carries stored data identifying the breathing tube (4). The data are read by a reading unit (6), which is part of a respirator (1). The data may be read when the breathing tube (4) is brought into the vicinity of the respirator (1) or connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2006Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Heiko Lokotsch, Axinja Schoenbeck, Michael Wilkening
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Patent number: 8496003Abstract: A wick for an anesthetic evaporator is provided as a dimensionally stable wick body (14) transporting anesthetic by means of capillary force is provided. The wick body comprises a hollow cylinder as well as webs by which a gas-carrying cavity is formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Lothar Kleinschmidt, Karl-Ludwig Gippert, Thorsten Bruhn, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Michael Riecke
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Patent number: 8490621Abstract: A device is provided for increasing humidity for respirating patients, especially for a respiration humidifier or an anesthesia reflector. The device includes a gas channel for passing through breathing air, a control and/or regulating device, a temperature sensor and a dew sensor for measuring the humidity present in the breathing air by electromagnetic radiation with a generating device and with a detection device for electromagnetic radiation. The humidity of the breathing air is determined at a low cost and in a reliable manner and condensation is avoided in the respiration system without any additional effort for sterilization. Humidity in the breathing air is determined by the a dew sensor by the change in the reflection of the electromagnetic radiation as a function of dew formation at a condensation-fogged and condensation-free boundary surface between breathing air and a medium having an optical density higher than that of breathing air.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Klaus Radomski, Jochim Koch
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Patent number: 8485189Abstract: A breathing mask is provided which prevents condensation in the interior space of the mask. The mask body (2) is provided in some sections with a material (8) that is waterproof but permeable to water vapor.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Oliver Wallnewitz, Ludger Tappehorn, Ines Materna
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Publication number: 20130151182Abstract: A process for supplying a medical device (4), in which at least one battery (5) is supplied with energy, wherein the batteries (5) undergo a calendar-based and/or cycle-dependent aging. The utilization time of the batteries (5) in the medical device (4) is prolonged beyond the conventional replacement periods both within the framework of interruption-free power supply and in mobile use. Provisions are made for determining a remaining calendar-based life of the battery (5) from the difference of the total life of the battery (5) and the operating time of the battery (5) and/or for determining a remaining cycle-dependent life of the batteries (5) from the product of the operating time of the batteries (5) by the ratio of the remaining capacity of the battery (5) to the discharged capacity of the battery (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Dräger Medical GmbHInventor: Klaus GLINDEMANN
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Publication number: 20130139817Abstract: A process and a device for oxygen regulation of a patient having at least two SPO2 monitors and a control for automatic recognition of which measurements are more reliable. The measurement from one or more of the two SPO2 is used to control the oxygen concentration delivered to a patient based on a comparison of the measurements from the at least two SPO2 monitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Tilman von BLUMENTHAL, Donald NULL
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Patent number: 8453647Abstract: A device for passive pressure relief and for reducing the volume flow for an electromechanically driven medical gas delivery means (50) in a medical device for respirating a patient (60) with a pressure relief unit (1) with a first and second gas port (2, 3), with a relief valve (4), with a pressure relief outlet (8) with an equalization space (9) and with a nonreturn valve (11) and a valve disk (5), which is arranged in the relief valve (4) and is maintained in a position relative to a valve seat (7) via a bellows (60). The surfaces (51, 52) facing the first and second gas ports (2, 3) have different areas, so that the relief valve (4) opens as soon as an operating pressure (23) at the first gas port (2) exceeds a prevailing (stored) pressure level (24) in the equalization space (9).Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventor: Renè-Christian Caspary
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Patent number: 8448642Abstract: A measurement gas vessel (3) for the measurement of the concentration of gas components of a stream of breath from a patient has a thin-walled inner part (11) which has two opposite facing walls limiting the breath stream. The walls are transparent to infrared light. An outer part (10) which in the central region (7) has two recesses on opposite sides which, with the walls (16) of the inner part (11), each form a window (9). A region of the inner part (11) outside the windows (9) is thermally connected to the outer part (10), and the outer part (10) surrounds the inner part (11).Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Ludger Tappehorn, Petrus Stephanus van Zyl, Chritiane Göbel, Jennifer Lünse, Horst-Dieter Hattendorff
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Publication number: 20130112198Abstract: A respiration moistener (1) has an inlet (3), into which incoming gas (2) to be moistened can be fed. Vapor (21) is mixed with the incoming gas (2) in a mixing chamber (4). Moistened outgoing gas (5) flows out of an outlet (6). In cases in which the temperature of the incoming gas (2) becomes so high that the temperature of the outgoing gas (5) is above a desired value, the internal desired value is adjusted. The outgoing gas (5) can then cool to the desired value on its way through the inspiration tube (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: DRÄGER MEDICAL GMBHInventor: Dräger Medical GmhbH
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Publication number: 20130112204Abstract: The function of a respiration system, with a patient port (1) with connected inspiration branch (3) and expiration branch, is checked. A rebreathing line (9) connects the inspiration branch to the expiration branch. A reservoir (25) is connected to a reservoir port (27) in the rebreathing line. An actuatable control valve (29) is provided in the rebreathing line between the expiration branch and the reservoir port. A pressure sensor (33) is connected to the rebreathing line. A control unit (39) is connected to the control valve and to pressure sensor. The process includes closing the control valve for a preset inspiration time and opening it for a preset expiration time. The value sent by the pressure sensor is detected with the control valve opened during the expiration time and compared with a preset first threshold valve. An error message is generated when the value sent exceeds the first threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Ralf HEESCH, Till RAHLF
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Patent number: 8424833Abstract: A suspension device (10) with a carrier segment (12) and with at least one extension arm (14) that can be mounted pivotably thereon for moving in space devices (16, 18) that can be mounted thereon. The carrier segment (12) has a base part (24) for mounting the suspension device (10) at a mounting site. The suspension device has one or more quick-release rod modules (26) that can be detachably connected with the base part (24). The quick-release rod module (26) or each quick-release rod module (26) has a bus module (32), which contacts either a bus module (32) of a quick-release rod module (26) already embraced by the suspension device (10) or a contact device in the base part (24) when a quick-release rod module (26) is mounted on the suspension device (10).Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Sven Müller, Christian Elsenbach, Carsten Timm, Hanno Kretschmann
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Patent number: 8408735Abstract: An actuating device for operating lamps (1) includes an actuator provided for actuating a number of first light-emitting diodes (6) for generating white light, on the one hand, and a number of second light-emitting diodes (7) for generating single-color light, on the other hand. A control is provided such that only the first light-emitting diodes (6) are switched on in a first operating state of the operating lamp (1) and such that the first light-emitting diodes (6) and the second light-emitting diodes (7) are switched on in a second operating state. The second light-emitting diodes (7) are designed such that a preset color rendering index is greater in the second operating state than in the first operating state of the operating lamp (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventor: Hanno Kretschmann
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Patent number: 8397720Abstract: Operating a respirator with an inspiration pressure-vs.-time curve (1), which has an airway target pressure (paw—target) and a PEEP (3), in which the inspiration pressure-vs.-time curve (1) reaches the airway target pressure (paw—target) on a ramp-like curve (17) starting from a starting airway pressure (paw—Start), which is greater than the PEEP (3).Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Marcus Eger, Dieter Weismann