Patents by Inventor Dirk-Stefan Reichert

Dirk-Stefan Reichert 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: 20060130931
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: Drager Medical AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ahmet Turker, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Claus Bunke
  • Patent number: 7032595
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Claus Bunke, Uwe Bausch, Winfried Kimmig, Uwe Bartels, Sven Pasdzior, Bernhard Schaible, Heiko Dickfeld, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Martin Meyer, Matthias Witt, Ralf Dittmann
  • Publication number: 20060065269
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: Drager Medical AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Karl-Ludwig Gippert, Claus Bunke, Matthias Witt, Rainer Kunz, Jurgen Muller, Sven Heyer, Michael Heidschmidt, Dirk-Stefan Reichert
  • Publication number: 20030079745
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Claus Bunke, Uwe Bausch, Winfried Kimmig, Uwe Bartels, Sven Pasdzior, Bernhard Schaible, Heiko Dickfeld, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Martin Meyer, Matthias Witt, Ralf Dittmann
  • Patent number: 5928411
    Abstract: A device for removing at least laughing gas and anesthetic vapor from a gas sample based on a molecular sieve shall be improved such that it possesses good adsorption properties for both gas components. A molecular sieve arrangement is provided, which is flown through from a gas inlet to a gas outlet and comprises a first molecular sieve area with a first pore size between about 0.3 nm and 0.5 nm and a second molecular sieve area with a second pore size between about 0.8 nm and 1 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Dragerwerk AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Falb, Karl-Ludwig Gippert, Uwe Bausch, Dirk Stefan Reichert, Stefan Linke, Udo Feldhoff
  • Patent number: 5839487
    Abstract: A safety filling device for filling a liquid anesthetic into a reservoir of an anesthetic-metering device with a receiving device, which has an inlet opening for a coupling piece or a closing piece. An essentially rigid guide lever is provided in the connection area between the receiving device and the closing piece. A hinge connection is provided which makes possible an axial displaceability of the guide lever within the inlet opening and a rotary movement of the guide lever outside the inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Dragerwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Moll, Uwe Bausch, Stefan Linke, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Karl-Ludwig Gippert, Wolfgang Falb
  • Patent number: 5671729
    Abstract: A device for mixing anesthetic vapor with a gas according to the bypass principle such that anesthetic gas or liquid anesthetic is prevented from escaping from the evaporator chamber during transportation. The switching on of the anesthetic evaporator takes place under defined pressure conditions in the evaporator chamber. A transport position, which precedes the switch-off position, and in which a ventilating valve of a ventilating line arriving from the evaporator chamber is switched into the switch-off position by the setting member, is provided on the setting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Dragerwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Moll, Uwe Bausch, Stefan Linke, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Karl-Ludwig Gippert, Wolfgang Falb
  • Patent number: 5560584
    Abstract: A safety filling device for filling a liquid anesthetic into a filling space of an anesthetic evaporator from a storage container by means of a filling adapter, which can be pushed into an insertion opening, with a closing element, which interrupts the flow of liquid anesthetic in a switched-off position, and with a control element, which is movable in a stationary housing and sets the states of switching. A preferential position is set on the closing element during the introduction of the filling adapter into the insertion opening. A follower blocking the switched-off position is provided on the closing element between the housing and the control element, and a coding part, which engages the follower in a manner eliminating the blocking of the closing element in the operating position of the filling adapter, is provided on the filling adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Dragerwerk AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Falb, Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Ernst-Gunter Scharmer, Gunther Hahmann
  • Patent number: 5537993
    Abstract: A gas ratio control device for anesthesia apparatus, includes an anesthetic gas feed line, which has, in a series-connected arrangement, a control valve with an inlet chamber, an anesthetic gas-adjusting valve and a first measuring resistance, and an oxygen feed line, which has a second measuring resistance, wherein the dynamic pressure received from the measuring resistances is sent to a proportional element, which controls the control valve. A flow-proportional addition of the anesthetic gas is possible even at low oxygen flow rates. This is achieved by the outlet chamber and the first pressure chamber being connected to one another in one piece in terms of flow. The anesthetic gas-adjusting valve is arranged in front of the inlet chamber of the control valve in terms of flow. A flow resistance is provided between two chambers limited by diaphragms of the proportional element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Dragerwerk AG
    Inventors: Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Gotz Kullik, Wolfgang Falb, Eckhard Schmudde, Thorsten Haase
  • Patent number: 5490500
    Abstract: An anesthetic evaporator according to the bypass principle, in which a carrier gas system is partially led through an evaporation chamber, is enriched with an anesthetic vapor to saturation there, and is again fed into the bypass flow. The function of the elements that influence the metering are not impaired by the penetration of anesthetic in an unintentional position other than the position intended for operation, and that the anesthetic located in the mixed gas outlet is not influenced by anesthetic located outside the evaporation chamber. Either the evaporation chamber line leading to the evaporation chamber or the return line leading from the evaporation chamber to the flow regulating valve opens into an intermediate container, from which a channel communicates with the interior of the evaporation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Dragerwerk AG
    Inventors: Dirk-Stefan Reichert, Gunther Hahmann, Wolfgang Falb