Patents by Inventor Bjoern Broeker
Bjoern Broeker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11229731Abstract: A display device for a medical apparatus including a projection surface arranged on the medical apparatus and configured to present a predetermined display content in a way visible to a user of the medical apparatus, and a projection device arranged on the medical apparatus and configured to project the predetermined display content from a rear side of the projection surface onto the projection surface. The projection surface and the projection device are configured as a head-up display unit for visual field presentation of the display content, and the medical apparatus may be an apparatus for carrying out extracorporeal blood treatment including the display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: B. BRAUN AVITUM AGInventors: Meike Peters, Sebastian Brögger, Björn Bröker, Bruno Stenzel
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Patent number: 10441698Abstract: A dialysis machine comprising internal fluidics, wherein the internal fluidics includes a dialysis fluid pump for pumping dialysis fluid from a dialysis fluid reservoir through a dialysis fluid feed line to a dialyzer and from the dialyzer through a dialysis fluid drain line to a waste reservoir, a substitution fluid pump for supplying dialysis fluid through a substitution fluid feed line as substitution fluid to an extracorporeal hose system including ports on the patient side and coupling means for connecting the extracorporeal hose system to the internal fluidics is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AGInventors: Henrik Wolff, Bjoern Broeker
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Patent number: 10399870Abstract: A water treatment system is provided, including a raw water tank connected to a water supply, a reverse osmosis unit arranged to produce purified water from water input from the raw water tank via a raw water supply line, at least one water treatment facility alongside the raw water supply line downstream of the raw water tank and upstream of the reverse osmosis unit, and a reuse water feedback line arranged to feed waste water and/or grey water collected from the reverse osmosis unit and/or the at least one water treatment facility back to the raw water tank for reuse. In a water treatment method in such a water treatment system, waste water and/or grey water collected from the reverse osmosis unit and/or the at least one water treatment facility is fed back to the raw water tank for reuse.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AGInventors: Chris Clark, James Steptoe, Björn Bröker
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Patent number: 10071194Abstract: The invention concerns a device for extra-corporal blood treatment, including an extra-corporal blood circulation for the pumping of blood, where individual components of the extra-corporal blood circulation are inside and outside of a casing of the device, and a base socket is attached below the casing, which includes a collection trough in which liquids leaking inside the casing can be collected. The device has a sensor with which the presence of liquid within the collection trough is measurable. The device includes receptacle resources for the reception of leaking liquids occurring outside of the casing, where the receptacle resources are developed so that, above a specified quantity, they route leaking liquids into the collection trough.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AGInventor: Bjoern Broeker
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Publication number: 20180251385Abstract: A water treatment system is provided, including a raw water tank connected to a water supply, a reverse osmosis unit arranged to produce purified water from water input from the raw water tank via a raw water supply line, at least one water treatment facility alongside the raw water supply line downstream of the raw water tank and upstream of the reverse osmosis unit, and a reuse water feedback line arranged to feed waste water and/or grey water collected from the reverse osmosis unit and/or the at least one water treatment facility back to the raw water tank for reuse. In a water treatment method in such a water treatment system, waste water and/or grey water collected from the reverse osmosis unit and/or the at least one water treatment facility is fed back to the raw water tank for reuse.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: CHRIS CLARK, JAMES STEPTOE, BJÖRN BRÖKER
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Patent number: 10052424Abstract: Blood treatment/dialysis systems are disclosed. The systems include a water treatment unit, preferably of the reverse osmosis type, whose outlet has connected thereto a water supply line provided with a number of branch connections having fluidly coupled thereto blood treatment/dialysis machines in a selective manner, and a drain line through which exhausted blood treatment fluid can be discharged from fluidly coupled blood treatment/dialysis machines. Also disclosed is a machine-external heat exchanger, which is connected to the water supply line upstream of the branch connections on one side and to the drain line on the other side.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: B. BRAUN AVITUM AGInventors: Alexander Rohde, Siegmar Rott, Bjoern Broeker
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Patent number: 10024442Abstract: A pressure compensation valve for a dialysis machine is disclosed. The pressure compensation valve has a valve housing, in which a flow path with fresh dialysate is separated from a flow path with exhausted dialysate by a diaphragm. The diaphragm and the valve housing are configured such that pressure compensation is possible. In addition, the diaphragm is configured such that no vibrations or a reduced amount of vibrations and/or no noise emission or a reduced amount of noise emission will occur during operation. Furthermore, a dialysis machine comprising such a pressure compensation valve is disclosed. The dialysis machine comprises a balancing unit, and the pressure compensation valve is arranged on the outlet side of the balancing unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: B. BRAUN AVITUM AGInventors: Peter Maenz, André Wagner, Katharine Felski, Rudolf Roessler, Martin Riemann, Bjoern Broeker, Tibor Osztódi
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Publication number: 20180015215Abstract: A display device for a medical apparatus including a projection surface arranged on the medical apparatus and configured to present a predetermined display content in a way visible to a user of the medical apparatus, and a projection device arranged on the medical apparatus and configured to project the predetermined display content from a rear side of the projection surface onto the projection surface. The projection surface and the projection device are configured as a head-up display unit for visual field presentation of the display content, and the medical apparatus may be an apparatus for carrying out extracorporeal blood treatment including the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: MEIKE PETERS, SEBASTIAN BRÖGGER, BJÖRN BRÖKER, BRUNO STENZEL
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Patent number: 9388803Abstract: Medical devices for extracorporeal blood treatment including tube roller pumps. Tube roller pumps including a pump housing having a bent bearing surface and a rotor being rotatable inside the bearing surface, wherein a tubing segment can be introduced between the bearing surface and the rotor in the form of a loop. A stationary first receiving portion for accommodating one end of the loop-shaped tubing segment and a rocker arm including a second receiving portion for accommodating the other end of the loop-shaped tubing segment is located at the pump housing, wherein the rocker arm is rotatable about a pivoting axis so that the second receiving portion with the tubing segment can be brought into at least two different positions and that a first position represents a threading position and a second position represents an unthreading position for the tubing segment.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AGInventors: Oliver Schaefer, Andreas Iske, Bjoern Broeker
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Publication number: 20160010755Abstract: A pressure compensation valve for a dialysis machine is disclosed. The pressure compensation valve has a valve housing, in which a flow path with fresh dialysate is separated from a flow path with exhausted dialysate by a diaphragm. The diaphragm and the valve housing are configured such that pressure compensation is possible. In addition, the diaphragm is configured such that no vibrations or a reduced amount of vibrations and/or no noise emission or a reduced amount of noise emission will occur during operation. Furthermore, a dialysis machine comprising such a pressure compensation valve is disclosed. The dialysis machine comprises a balancing unit, and the pressure compensation valve is arranged on the outlet side of the balancing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventors: PETER MAENZ, Andre Wagner, Katharine Felski, Rudolf Roessler, Martin Riemann, Bjoern Broeker, Tibor Osztódi
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Publication number: 20150359955Abstract: A dialysis machine comprising internal fluidics, wherein the internal fluidics includes a dialysis fluid pump for pumping dialysis fluid from a dialysis fluid reservoir through a dialysis fluid feed line to a dialyzer and from the dialyzer through a dialysis fluid drain line to a waste reservoir, a substitution fluid pump for supplying dialysis fluid through a substitution fluid feed line as substitution fluid to an extracorporeal hose system including ports on the patient side and coupling means for connecting the extracorporeal hose system to the internal fluidics is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: HENRIK WOLFF, BJOERN BROEKER
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Publication number: 20150021245Abstract: Blood treatment/dialysis systems are disclosed. The systems include a water treatment unit, preferably of the reverse osmosis type, whose outlet has connected thereto a water supply line provided with a number of branch connections having fluidly coupled thereto blood treatment/dialysis machines in a selective manner, and a drain line through which exhausted blood treatment fluid can be discharged from fluidly coupled blood treatment/dialysis machines. Also disclosed is a machine-external heat exchanger, which is connected to the water supply line upstream of the branch connections on one side and to the drain line on the other side.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: ALEXANDER ROHDE, Siegmar Rott, Bjoern Broeker
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Publication number: 20140102957Abstract: A weight detection device is disclosed for determining a patient's weight, for dialysis treatment, that includes patient scales arranged to carry out a weighing procedure to detect the actual weight of a patient, preferably a network connection arranged to connect a component of the weight detection device, generating information and/or data related to the determining of the patient's weight and/or to the weighing procedure, to a data network, an output device arranged to output the actual weight of the patient, and an image information recording device that includes a field of view directed to the patient scales for the visual detection of weighing procedures arranged to record the course of a weighing procedure such that a cause of a change in the actual weight occurring in the course of dialysis therapy can be determined from a recording of the weighing procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventors: BJOERN BROEKER, KAI-UWE RITTER
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Publication number: 20140010690Abstract: Tube roller pumps for a medical device for extracorporeal blood treatment are disclosed. The pumps include a pump housing having a bent bearing surface and a rotor being rotatable inside the bearing surface, wherein a tubing segment can be introduced between the bearing surface and the rotor in the form of a loop. At the pump housing a stationary first receiving portion for accommodating one end of the loop-shaped tubing segment and a rocker arm including a second receiving portion for accommodating the other end of the loop-shaped tubing segment are provided, wherein the rocker arm is rotatable about a pivoting axis so that the second receiving portion with the tubing segment can be brought into at least two different positions and that a first position represents a threading position and a second position represents an unthreading position for the tubing segment. Medical devices for extracorporeal blood treatment including such tube roller pumps are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Oliver Schaefer, Andreas Iske, Bjoern Broeker
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Publication number: 20130276908Abstract: The invention concerns a device for extra-corporal blood treatment, including an extra-corporal blood circulation for the pumping of blood, where individual components of the extra-corporal blood circulation are inside and outside of a casing of the device, and a base socket is attached below the casing, which includes a collection trough in which liquids leaking inside the casing can be collected. The device has a sensor with which the presence of liquid within the collection trough is measurable. The device includes receptacle resources for the reception of leaking liquids occurring outside of the casing, where the receptacle resources are developed so that, above a specified quantity, they route leaking liquids into the collection trough.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventor: Bjoern Broeker