Patents by Inventor Burkard KELLER

Burkard KELLER 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).

  • Publication number: 20230405296
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a port for establishing a fluid communication between at least one fluid line of the medical treatment apparatus, which fluid line is assigned to the interior of a medical treatment apparatus, and a connector of a fluid line of a fluid-guiding disposable, which fluid line is assigned to the exterior of the medical treatment apparatus, wherein the port includes at least a first fluid guide and a second fluid guide. The first fluid guide has at least a first lumen and a first end-side opening, which is provided for receiving and/or guiding a first, medical fluid and for establishing the fluid communication with the connector. The second fluid guide has at least a second lumen and a second end-side opening. The first end-side opening of the first fluid guide is arranged, at least in sections, in the second lumen of the second fluid guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Juergen Haecker, Burkard Keller, Winfried Brehm, Oliver Bond, Matthias Fehler, Markus Then, Martin Lauer
  • Publication number: 20230398273
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical treatment apparatus which includes at least one port, a device for closing, a compressed-air source and a control device and/or closed-loop control device. The port serves to establish fluid communication between at least one fluid line of the treatment apparatus associated with the interior of a treatment apparatus and a connector of a fluid line of a disposable associated with the exterior of the treatment apparatus. The sealing device is designed as a rinsing cap and serves to seal an interior of the port with respect to an exterior of the treatment apparatus. The compressed-air source is used to introduce air into the port along at least one sterile-air line. The control device and/or closed-loop control device is programmed to cause the compressed-air source to build-up and/or maintain a predetermined minimum overpressure in the sterile-air line, the compressed-air source and/or inside the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Juergen Haecker, Burkard Keller, Peter Kloeffel, Martin Thys, Nico Roemmelt, Alfred Gagel, Soeren Gronau
  • Publication number: 20230364408
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a disposable, which includes a fluid line and a connector having a connector lumen, for fluidically connecting the fluid line to a first lumen of a first fluid guide of a port, which further includes a second lumen. It further relates to a system with a disposable according to the present disclosure and with a port for establishing a fluid communication between at least one fluid line of a medical treatment apparatus, which fluid line is assigned to an interior of the medical treatment apparatus, and a connector of a fluid line of a disposable, which fluid line is assigned to an exterior of the medical treatment apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Juergen Haecker, Burkard Keller, Winfried Brehm, Oliver Bond, Matthias Fehler, Markus Then, Martin Lauer
  • Publication number: 20230364313
    Abstract: The invention relates to an access system 1 for a medical device, which system has a housing body 21 in which an inner pipe portion 22 for transporting a medical fluid is formed, which portion is enclosed by an outer pipe portion 24 so as to form an empty space 23 for receiving a disinfectant fluid, the housing body 21 having an opening 25 that can be closed by a closure element. The access system 1 according to the invention is characterised in that a measuring electrode 30 and at least one counter electrode 31, 32 are arranged in the housing body 21 such that the measuring electrode 30 interacts with the counter electrode via the empty space 23. The measuring electrode 30 allows an electrical signal to be input such that a current flowing between the measuring electrode and the counter electrode or a voltage applied between the measuring electrode and the counter electrode can be evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim NOACK, Klaus SAUER, Peter KLOEFFEL, Rene BAUER, Matthias FEHLER, Markus THEN, Burkard KELLER, Achim EBERLEIN, Oliver BOND
  • Publication number: 20230158217
    Abstract: The invention relates to an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus comprising a blood treatment unit 1 that is divided by a semipermeable membrane 2 into a first compartment 3, which is part of a fluid system II, and a second compartment 4, which is part of an extracorporeal blood circuit I. The invention also relates to a method for operating a blood treatment apparatus of this kind. The blood treatment apparatus according to the invention has a pressure-based checking device 32 which interacts with the control unit 31 for a valve device 21 and is designed such that a fluid connection between an upstream portion 20A and a downstream portion 20B of a flow path 20 for a special operating mode can only be established if the pressure-based checking device 32 detects an operating state in which it is ensured that fluid in the flow path 20 for a special operating mode flows towards a flow path 10 leading to a drain 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Alfred GAGEL, Burkard KELLER, Peter KLOEFFEL, Martin THYS
  • Publication number: 20220105335
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a disposable, which comprises a fluid line and a connector having a connector lumen, for fluidically connecting the fluid line to a first lumen of a first fluid guide of a port, which further comprises a second lumen. It further relates to a system with a disposable according to the present disclosure and with a port for establishing a fluid communication between at least one fluid line of the treatment apparatus, which fluid line is assigned to the interior of a blood treatment apparatus, and a connector of a fluid line of a disposable, which fluid line is assigned to the exterior of the treatment apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Juergen Haecker, Burkard Keller, Winfried Brehm, Oliver Bond, Matthias Fehler, Markus Then, Martin Lauer
  • Publication number: 20160055303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of medical machines. The invention is based on the object of facilitating the operation of medical machines and making them safer. To do so, the invention proposes methods and devices with which a transparent display can be applied in front of at least parts of medical machines so that these parts of the medical machines are visible through the transparent display and information such as operating instructions or messages are displayed on the transparent display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventor: Burkard KELLER