Patents by Inventor Ludger Tappehorn

Ludger Tappehorn 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: 20100242963
    Abstract: A humidifying device for breathing gases. The humidifying device has a housing with a recess, a heater, an evaporating chamber with a water feed, a breathing gas feed channel, a breathing gas outlet channel and at least one float element and at least one filling level indicator. The evaporating chamber can be introduced at least partially into the recess and is in contact with the heater to heat water and is designed to receive water from a water reservoir through the water feed. The at least one float element is guided in a floatingly movable manner on the water and is designed to close the feed of water above a water level set point in the evaporating chamber, and the at least one filling level indicator is designed to recognize the drop of the water level from the water level set point as a function of the position of the at least one float element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: DRAGER MEDICAL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kai BRIEGER, Thomas ROSSEN, Markus Kämer, Ludger TAPPEHORN
  • Publication number: 20100043793
    Abstract: A breathing tube system for connection to a respirator (2), which is provided with a tube heater, avoids a local increase in temperature during the heating of the tube (4, 7). Resistance wires (9, 10) are connected to one another on the breathing tubes (4, 7) in the form of a series connection and are contacted at the respirator (2) in the area of an inspiration port (3) and of an expiration port (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kirill Koulechov, Ludger Tappehorn
  • Publication number: 20090320846
    Abstract: A measurement gas vessel (3) for the measurement of the concentration of gas components of a stream of breath from a patient has a thin-walled inner part (11) which has two opposite facing walls limiting the breath stream. The walls are transparent to infrared light. An outer part (10) which in the central region (7) has two recesses on opposite sides which, with the walls (16) of the inner part (11), each form a window (9). A region of the inner part (11) outside the windows (9) is thermally connected to the outer part (10), and the outer part (10) surrounds the inner part (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: DRAGER MEDICAL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ludger Tappehorn, Petrus Staphanus van Zyl, Chritiane Göbel, Jennifer Lünse, Horst-Dieter Hattendorff
  • Publication number: 20090282896
    Abstract: A breathing tube for a sensor (9) with a horizontally extending grip element (11) shall be improved such that the sensor (9) assumes a preferred position in relation to the connecting component (1). To accomplish the object, a wall section (7), which extends flush and at the level of grip element (11), is provided at the connecting component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: Drager Medical AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ludger TAPPEHORN, Kirill KOULECHOV, Markus KRATZENSTEIN, Thomas REINBOTH
  • Publication number: 20090114225
    Abstract: A device for releasing breathing gas establishes constant flow conditions for the breathing gas being discharged. An annular connection element (6) is provided between an outer part (2) and an inner part (4), and a discharge gap (7) is formed between the connection element (6) and the outer part (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: DRAGER MEDICAL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ludger TAPPEHORN, Klaus ABRAHAM
  • Publication number: 20080173308
    Abstract: A medical device is provided with a fluid port (2), a tube (20), a socket (4), which can be connected to the fluid port (2), on the one hand, and to the tube (20), on the other hand, with freely selectable rotation positions, in order to establish a fluid connection between the fluid port (2) and the tube (20). The tube (20) is provided with a transponder (22) at its end at which it is connected to the socket (4), and with a writing and reading device for communication with the transponder (22), which has an antenna (24) in the area of the fluid port (2). The socket (4) is provided, in the area of its two connection ends, with a coil (5, 6) each, whose axis of rotation is directed essentially coaxially to the axis of rotation about which the relative rotation position of the socket (4) is variable. The two coils (5, 6) are connected by electric lines (8), to which at least one capacitor (9) is connected as a circuit component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: DRAGER MEDICAL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Olaf Schermeier, Gerd Wotha, Markus Steeger, Ludger Tappehorn