Patents by Inventor Joachim Manke

Joachim Manke 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).

  • Patent number: 11957826
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing blood from an extracorporeal blood circuit following termination of a blood treatment session, wherein blood is concurrently removed both from an arterial conduit portion and from a venous conduit portion of the extracorporeal blood circuit. It further relates to a method for recognizing and/or eliminating air inclusions in or from an extracorporeal blood circuit and a treatment apparatus as well as a tube system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Goetz Guenther, Joachim Manke
  • Publication number: 20220218975
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reinfusion tube system that includes a reinfusion fluid tubing with a pre-pump loop section, a post-pump loop section, and a pump loop section; and one of a check valve positioned at an end or between the ends of the reinfusion fluid tubing such that it is provided to block fluid flow through the check valve in a direction from the post-pump loop section to the pre-pump loop section, and a check valve adapter including a check valve. The check valve adapter can be configured to be connected to an end or to be positioned between the ends of the reinfusion fluid tubing such that the check valve is provided to block fluid flow through the check valve in a direction from the post-pump loop section to the pre-pump loop section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Juergen Haecker, Joachim Manke, Ralf Mueller, Edoardo Davico
  • Patent number: 11013847
    Abstract: An external functional means comprises at least one housing body, at least one chamber integrated into the housing body for receiving medical fluids, at least one passage integrated into the housing body for receiving and/or conducting a medical fluid, and at least one valve means completely or partly integrated into the housing body for controlling or regulating a fluid flowing through the external functional means. The invention further specifies a blood treatment apparatus and methods which may be carried out by means of the external functional means of the invention and by means of the blood treatment apparatus, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Goetz Guenther, Juergen Haecker, Martin Lauer, Joachim Manke, Dejan Nikolic, Manfred Weis
  • Publication number: 20200316284
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing blood from an extracorporeal blood circuit following termination of a blood treatment session, wherein blood is concurrently removed both from an arterial conduit portion and from a venous conduit portion of the extracorporeal blood circuit. It further relates to a method for recognizing and/or eliminating air inclusions in or from an extracorporeal blood circuit and a treatment apparatus as well as a tube system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Goetz Guenther, Joachim Manke
  • Patent number: 10722639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing blood from an extracorporeal blood circuit following termination of a blood treatment session, wherein blood is concurrently removed both from an arterial conduit portion and from a venous conduit portion of the extracorporeal blood circuit. It further relates to a method for recognizing and/or eliminating air inclusions in or from an extracorporeal blood circuit and a treatment apparatus as well as a tube system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Goetz Guenther, Joachim Manke
  • Patent number: 10485913
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Manke, Ralf Mueller, Ingo Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10471194
    Abstract: A dialysis machine that includes a valve member having a deformable area configured to deform outwardly away when pressurized fluid is introduced into the valve member. The valve member is configured so that, when a dialysis fluid cassette is disposed in a cassette compartment of the dialysis machine and pressurized fluid is introduced into the valve member, the deformable area obstructs a fluid channel of the dialysis fluid cassette to control dialysis fluid flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Beden, Uwe Hahmann, Martin Herklotz, Martin Lauer, Joachim Manke, Peter Scheunert, Manfred Weis, Alexander Bongers
  • Publication number: 20190224397
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Manke, Ralf Mueller, Ingo Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10286136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Manke, Ralf Mueller, Ingo Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20180272053
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Manke, Ralf Mueller, Ingo Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10004837
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Manke, Ralf Mueller, Ingo Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20180117229
    Abstract: A dialysis machine that includes a valve member having a deformable area configured to deform outwardly away when pressurized fluid is introduced into the valve member. The valve member is configured so that, when a dialysis fluid cassette is disposed in a cassette compartment of the dialysis machine and pressurized fluid is introduced into the valve member, the deformable area obstructs a fluid channel of the dialysis fluid cassette to control dialysis fluid flow therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Josef Beden, Uwe Hahmann, Martin Herklotz, Martin Lauer, Joachim Manke, Peter Scheunert, Manfred Weis, Alexander Bongers
  • Publication number: 20180071447
    Abstract: An external functional means comprises at least one housing body, at least one chamber integrated into the housing body for receiving medical fluids, at least one passage integrated into the housing body for receiving and/or conducting a medical fluid, and at least one valve means completely or partly integrated into the housing body for controlling or regulating a fluid flowing through the external functional means. The invention further specifies a blood treatment apparatus and methods which may be carried out by means of the external functional means of the invention and by means of the blood treatment apparatus, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Goetz Guenther, Juergen Haecker, Martin Lauer, Joachim Manke, Dejan Nikolic, Manfred Weis
  • Patent number: 9808566
    Abstract: An external functional means comprises at least one housing body, at least one chamber integrated into the housing body for receiving medical fluids, at least one passage integrated into the housing body for receiving and/or conducting a medical fluid, and at least one valve means completely or partly integrated into the housing body for controlling or regulating a fluid flowing through the external functional means. The invention further specifies a blood treatment apparatus and methods which may be carried out by means of the external functional means of the invention and by means of the blood treatment apparatus, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Goetz Guenther, Juergen Haecker, Martin Lauer, Joachim Manke, Dejan Nikolic, Manfred Weis, Andrea Günther, Richard Robert Bernd Günther, Gesa Dagmar Günther
  • Publication number: 20170173250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing blood from an extracorporeal blood circuit following termination of a blood treatment session, wherein blood is concurrently removed both from an arterial conduit portion and from a venous conduit portion of the extracorporeal blood circuit. It further relates to a method for recognizing and/or eliminating air inclusions in or from an extracorporeal blood circuit and a treatment apparatus as well as a tube system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Goetz Guenther, Joachim Manke
  • Patent number: 9592332
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing blood from an extracorporeal blood circuit following termination of a blood treatment session, wherein blood is concurrently removed both from an arterial conduit portion and from a venous conduit portion of the extracorporeal blood circuit. It further relates to a method for recognizing and/or eliminating air inclusions in or from an extracorporeal blood circuit and a treatment apparatus as well as a tube system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Goetz Guenther, Joachim Manke
  • Publication number: 20160310654
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Manke, Ralf Mueller, Ingo SCHAEFER
  • Patent number: 9393358
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Manke, Ralf Mueller, Ingo Schaefer
  • Patent number: 9267500
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting a permeability or patency of a section of an extracorporeal tube which is inserted in a tube pump, a detection device for executing a method according to the present invention, a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission with it or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Soeren Gronau, Joachim Manke
  • Patent number: 9101709
    Abstract: A dialysis fluid cassette that includes a base and a flexible membrane attached to the base. The flexible membrane and the base cooperate to at least partially define a venting chamber and a fluid channel fluidly connected to the venting chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Beden, Uwe Hahmann, Martin Herklotz, Martin Lauer, Joachim Manke, Peter Scheunert, Manfred Weis