Patents by Inventor Claus Bunke
Claus Bunke 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: 8302598Abstract: A breathing gas supply device is provided which can be taken apart for cleaning purposes. The breathing gas supply device has a modular design in the form of a breathing gas module (2) and a blower module (3), which are inserted together into a housing module (4).Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Thorsten Haase, Axel Schmitt, Henryk Schnaars, Uwe Schmid, Claus Bunke, Gerald Panitz, Hans-Ulrich Hansmann, Thomas Stepan
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Patent number: 8166585Abstract: A medical workstation and workstation system for patients includes a bed for positioning the patient in the lying position, a plurality of mobile work units, which are connected to the bed, a control unit, which is arranged at the bed and which can be connected via a first supply cable to a stationary media port, on the one hand, and via a second supply cable to a mobile media port, on the other hand, for supplying a work unit. The control unit is designed as a distribution unit, to which a plurality of mobile work units (4, 4?) are connected via connection cables.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Dieter Settgast, Sven Pasdzior, Claus Bunke, Gerald Panitz, Jürgen Manigel, Hermann Hopermann, Kay Frensch, Martin Wunderlich
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Patent number: 7730885Abstract: A device for mixing anesthetic vapor with anesthetic gas has a pressure limitation feature achieved in a simple manner. The device has a valve device (11), with which the evaporator is switched on and off. The valve device (11) is equipped with an overpressure release device (22).Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGInventors: Karl-Ludwig Gippert, Claus Bunke, Matthias Witt, Rainer Kunz, Jürgen Müller, Sven Heyer, Michael Heidschmidt, Dirk-Stefan Reichert
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Patent number: 7703455Abstract: An apparatus for supplying respiratory gas to a patient in which respiratory gas components are metered with great accuracy and sources of error are detected early. The apparatus has metering devices for respiratory gas components which are connected, on the leading side of a mixing chamber volume, to a ring line; a first respiratory gas analyzer on the trailing side of the mixing chamber volume; a second respiratory gas analyzer at a patient connection; a regulating device for the respiratory gas components which controls the delivery of respiratory gas components, as a function of the concentration measured with the second respiratory gas analyzer, in such a way that the difference between a predetermined concentration and a measured concentration at the patient connection is minimized; and means for performing a plausibility comparison between the measured values of the first respiratory gas analyzer and the second respiratory gas analyzer.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2004Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGAAInventors: Claus Bunke, Jürgen Manigel, Gerald Panitz, Ralf Dittmann
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Patent number: 7648039Abstract: A pressure-resistant tank for liquids includes a plurality of differently shaped diecast parts (1, 2) made of a first aluminum alloy (cast alloy). The diecast parts (1, 2) are connected by means of a closed weld seam welded with an electron beam with the use of a second aluminum alloy (wrought alloy). The second aluminum alloy has especially a hydrogen content of less than 0.2 mL per 100 g of wrought alloy. The tank for liquids is especially an anesthetic tank and the anesthetic is desflurane.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2005Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGInventors: Claus Bunke, Matthias Witt, Rainer Kunz, Sven Heyer, Thomas Rossen, Henryk Schnaars
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Patent number: 7591263Abstract: A device is provided for measuring the differential pressure in anesthetic dispensing devices, with which the differential pressure can be measured between two lines (2, 6) for supplying gaseous components to a mixing site (3). The device has at least one differential pressure sensor (11), which is connected with the lines (2, 6) for supplying the gaseous components. Buffer elements (12, 12?) are integrated in the connection between the lines (2, 6) for supplying the gaseous components and the differential pressure sensor (11).Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Claus Bunke, Matthias Witt, Rainer Kunz, Jürgen Müller, Sven Heyer, Heye Harms, Uwe Schmidt
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Publication number: 20090070934Abstract: A medical workstation and workstation system for patients includes a bed for positioning the patient in the lying position, a plurality of mobile work units, which are connected to the bed, a control unit, which is arranged at the bed and which can be connected via a first supply cable to a stationary media port, on the one hand, and via a second supply cable to a mobile media port, on the other hand, for supplying a work unit. The control unit is designed as a distribution unit, to which a plurality of mobile work units (4, 4?) are connected via connection cables.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: DRAGER MEDICAL AG & CO. KGInventors: Dieter SETTGAST, Sven PASDZIOR, Claus BUNKE, Gerald PANITZ, Jurgen MANIGEL, Hermann HOPERMANN, Kay FRENSCH, Martin WUNDERLICH
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Publication number: 20090020117Abstract: A breathing gas supply device is provided which can be taken apart for cleaning purposes. The breathing gas supply device has a modular design in the form of a breathing gas module (2) and a blower module (3), which are inserted together into a housing module (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: DRAGER MEDICAL AG & CO. KGInventors: Thorsten HAASE, Axel SCHMITT, Henryk SCHNAARS, Uwe SCHMID, Claus BUNKE, Gerald PANITZ, Hans-Ulrich HANSMANN, Thomas STEPAN
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Patent number: 7445609Abstract: An apparatus for medical fluid delivery is to be improved for the sake of simple monitoring of the quantity of medical fluid delivered. For attaining this object, a safety device (15) with a patient model (16) is provided, which from past values and current values of the dosage rate of the medical fluid extrapolates a future medical fluid concentration (17) and switches off the dosage unit (10) for the medical fluid if the extrapolated medical fluid concentration (17) exceeds a predetermined limit value (14).Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Drager Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Claus Bunke, Ralf Dittman, Bernd Kaufmann, Jens Köhne, Jürgen Manigel, Gerald Panitz
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Publication number: 20080097168Abstract: A medical workstation has a control and display unit (1) connected to a patient monitor module (2) via a communications line (5). The medical workstation has an interface accessible to the user for connecting a therapy module (3). The control and display unit (1) has a microprocessor and the therapy module (3) has at least one microprocessor and a nonvolatile memory. The control and display unit (1) has an area (6) that is visible to the user and can be operated by the user with graphic elements for the display and modification of therapy settings. The control and display unit (1) has an operating program, which is designed such that the area (6) on the control and display unit (1) can be operated by the user only in case a compatible therapy module (3) is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: DRAGER MEDICAL AG & CO. KGInventors: Hermann HOPERMANN, Jurgen MANIGEL, Kay FRENSCH, Jens KOHNE, Claus BUNKE, Gerald PANITZ, Martin WUNDERLICH, Dieter SETTGAST, Volker SCHIERSCHKE
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Patent number: 7317402Abstract: An alarm is associated with a device for dispensing volatile anesthetics. The alarm and device is designed such that an alarm is triggered whenever the operating voltage is interrupted and an assembly unit that determines the dispensing of at least one anesthetic is not in a prescribed state of operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Claus Bunke, Jürgen Müller, Matthias Witt, Sven Heyer, Michael Heidschmidt, Martin Wunderlich
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Patent number: 7290571Abstract: A filling device for an anesthetic evaporator has filling of an anesthetic evaporator is possible. To accomplish the object, an additional vent hole (36), which is opened immediately after the filling in order for excess anesthetic volume to be able to flow out of the filling device into the anesthetic tank (15) of the anesthetic evaporator (2), is provided within the filling device above a fluid channel (14), via which both the gas and liquid exchange takes place during the filling.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2005Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Claus Bunke, Matthias Witt, Rainer Kunz, Jürgen Müller, Sven Heyer, Dirk Reichert
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Patent number: 7287561Abstract: The interaction between a filling valve (28) on the filling device and an adapter valve on a bottle adapter has improved anesthetics filling features including radially inwardly directed bars (26), which engage (pass into) corresponding slots on the outlet pipe of the bottle adapter. The bars engaged in the slots actuate the adapter valve. The bars are provided on the inner wall of a filler neck (22).Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Ahmet Türker, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Claus Bunke
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Patent number: 7287557Abstract: An anesthetic tank (1) of an anesthetic dispensing unit is used especially for desflurane and has improved reliability of operation by mutually complementing level monitoring devices. The anesthetic tank (1) is equipped with a level tube (3) arranged in or on the outer wall with a connection line (6) into the interior space as well as with an optical level sensor (4). The optical axis (5) of the level sensor (4) is located at the same level as a mark (33) on the level tube (3).Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Claus Bunke, Matthias Witt, Rainer Kunz, Jürgen Müller, Sven Heyer, Dirk Reichert, Henryk Schnaars, Michael Heidschmidt, Martin Wunderlich, Ralf Dittmann
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Publication number: 20070051366Abstract: Silver particles with a size of 1 nm to 500 nm is provided in a matrix material that is used as a surface coating on medical devices or breathing masks for reducing the germ count on same.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2006Publication date: March 8, 2007Applicant: DRAGER MEDICAL AG & CO. KGInventors: Hans-Ullrich HANSMANN, Gotz KULLIK, Henryk SCHNAARS, Claus BUNKE, Erich SIEGEL
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Patent number: 7168467Abstract: A filling system for an anesthetic evaporator is improved such that an anesthetic-specifically coded adapter neck (5) of a bottle adapter (1) can be introduced into the filler neck of a filling device. An outer polygon (7) is provided on the bottle adapter and an inner polygon designed correspondingly thereto is provided on the filler neck as anesthetic-specific codings.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Ahmet Türker, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Claus Bunke
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Publication number: 20060130930Abstract: The interaction between a filling valve (28) on the filling device and an adapter valve on a bottle adapter has improved anesthetics filling features including radially inwardly directed bars (26), which engage (pass into) corresponding slots on the outlet pipe of the bottle adapter. The bars engaged in the slots actuate the adapter valve. The bars are provided on the inner wall of a filler neck (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: Drager Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Ahmet Turker, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Claus Bunke
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Publication number: 20060130931Abstract: A filling system for an anesthetic evaporator is improved such that an anesthetic-specifically coded adapter neck (5) of a bottle adapter (1) can be introduced into the filler neck of a filling device. An outer polygon (7) is provided on the bottle adapter and an inner polygon designed correspondingly thereto is provided on the filler neck as anesthetic-specific codings.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: Drager Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Ahmet Turker, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Claus Bunke
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Publication number: 20060087441Abstract: An alarm is associated with a device for dispensing volatile anesthetics. The alarm and device is designed such that an alarm is triggered whenever the operating voltage is interrupted and an assembly unit that determines the dispensing of at least one anesthetic is not in a prescribed state of operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2005Publication date: April 27, 2006Applicant: Drager Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Claus Bunke, Jurgen Muller, Matthias Witt, Sven Heyer, Michael Heidschmidt, Martin Wunderlick
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Patent number: 7032595Abstract: A device for metering anesthetic is provided such that a new anesthetic is immediately available for the metering when the anesthetic is changed. The metering device has an assembly unit that can be removed from the medical apparatus as a module with a reservoir (4) for a liquid anesthetic, an intermediate container (9) arranged downstream of the reservoir (4), a metering gas source (11) connected to the intermediate container (9) and a metering element (14) for anesthetic on the discharge side of the intermediate container (9). An evaporator chamber (15) may be provided for evaporating the metered anesthetic. A connecting device lets through at least anesthetic vapor as an interface between the assembly unit (1) and the medical apparatus (2).Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Claus Bunke, Uwe Bausch, Winfried Kimmig, Uwe Bartels, Sven Pasdzior, Bernhard Schaible, Heiko Dickfeld, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Martin Meyer, Matthias Witt, Ralf Dittmann