Patents by Inventor Matthias Brandl

Matthias Brandl 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: 9243625
    Abstract: A peristaltic pump for use in medical technology with a stator and a rotor. The stator 40 has an occlusion bed 12 which forms the contact area with a tube accommodated within, and the rotor is provided with rolling elements suitable for occluding a tube accommodated between the occlusion bed and the rolling elements. At least a part of the occlusion bed has an electrically conductive surface for reducing and/or preventing electrostatic charging of the tube. The stator may be injection molded from an electrically non-conductive plastic and the electrically conductive surface may be formed by a molded-in metallic insert or a molded-in metallic foil insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Martin Prinz, Franz Pleiner
  • Patent number: 9186492
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a socket unit for connecting a plug unit of a device for supplying medical fluids, in which the medical apparatus is in particular an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus, for example an extracorporeal dialysis apparatus or an apparatus for peritoneal dialysis, or an apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids. The socket unit comprises connection pieces for the connection of connectors of a plug unit, so that a flow connection can be produced for supplying or discharging a fluid. The connection pieces are surrounded by connection parts thereby forming rinsing chambers, in which the rinsing chambers are closed by closure pieces, said closure pieces being part of a closure body which is disposed rotatably on the socket unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Thomas Faulhaber, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann, Goekhan Oerter, Rafael Sterzer
  • Patent number: 9119949
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a socket unit for connection to a plug unit belonging to a device for supplying medical fluids for a blood treatment apparatus, the medical apparatus being in particular an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus such for example as an extra-corporeal dialysis apparatus or an apparatus for peritoneal dialysis, or an apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids. A device for supplying medical fluids for a blood treatment apparatus, which has a plug unit for connection to a socket unit of a medical apparatus, is also described. The socket unit and the plug unit are characterised in that a safe and secure fluid-tight connection can easily be made with the two units between the device for supplying medical fluids and, on the one hand, the blood treatment apparatus or, on the other hand, the apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Thomas Faulhaber, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann, Goekhan Oerter, Rafael Sterzer
  • Publication number: 20130248629
    Abstract: A medical treatment apparatus, and in particular an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus, has a socket unit for the connection of a plug unit belonging to a device for supplying a medical fluid for the medical treatment apparatus. A filling apparatus for filling a device for supplying a medical fluid has a socket unit for the connection of a plug unit of the device for supplying a medical fluid. The device has a plug unit having means for indicating two states of operation, while the socket unit of the treatment apparatus has means for destroying the means for indicating two states of operation. When the plug unit is connected to the socket unit, the means for indicating two states of operation are destroyed, to rule out the possibility of the device being re-used. Re-use of the device is ruled out by the fact that the device cannot be re-filled with fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Thomas Faulhaber, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann, Goekhan Oerter, Rafael Sterzer
  • Publication number: 20130245531
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a socket unit for connecting a plug unit of a device for supplying medical fluids, in which the medical apparatus is in particular an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus, for example an extracorporeal dialysis apparatus or an apparatus for peritoneal dialysis, or an apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids. The socket unit comprises connection pieces for the connection of connectors of a plug unit, so that a flow connection can be produced for supplying or discharging a fluid. The connection pieces are surrounded by connection parts thereby forming rinsing chambers, in which the rinsing chambers are closed by closure pieces, said closure pieces being part of a closure body which is disposed rotatably on the socket unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Thomas Faulhaber, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann, Goekhan Oerter, Rafael Sterzer
  • Publication number: 20130245530
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a socket unit for connection to a plug unit belonging to a device for supplying medical fluids for a blood treatment apparatus, the medical apparatus being in particular an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus such for example as an extra-corporeal dialysis apparatus or an apparatus for peritoneal dialysis, or an apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids. A device for supplying medical fluids for a blood treatment apparatus, which has a plug unit for connection to a socket unit of a medical apparatus, is also described. The socket unit and the plug unit are characterised in that a safe and secure fluid-tight connection can easily be made with the two units between the device for supplying medical fluids and, on the one hand, the blood treatment apparatus or, on the other hand, the apparatus for filling the device for supplying medical fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Thomas Faulhaber, Joern Hoermann, Franz Kugelmann, Goekhan Oerter, Rafael Sterzer
  • Publication number: 20130112629
    Abstract: A medical functional device, provided and designed for single use in a method for extracorporeally treating the blood of a patient, includes at least one process fluid circuit or sections thereof, each provided for receiving a process fluid, at least one first filter device arranged within the process fluid circuit or a section thereof and at least one second filter device arranged within the process fluid circuit or a section thereof. The present invention further relates to a process fluid and a medical treatment apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Michael Herrenbauer, Wolfgang Wehmeyer
  • Publication number: 20130087210
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for conveying fluids into the treatment unit of a medical treatment apparatus. The device and method according to the present invention are based on the fact that the fluid with which the treatment unit is supplied, circulates in a fluid circuit including the treatment unit. To balance fresh and used fluid fed to the treatment unit or conveyed from the treatment unit, a balancing unit with a balancing chamber is used, which can be incorporated into the fluid circuit including the treatment unit. It is thus possible to supply the fluid circuit continuously with fresh fluid or to carry away used fluid continuously from the fluid circuit. The supply and discharge of fresh and used fluid can take place at a different flow rate from the flow rate at which the fluid circulates in the fluid circuit via the treatment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Manfred Weis, Volker Nier, Gerhard Mager, Michael Herrenbauer
  • Publication number: 20120310150
    Abstract: Method of dissolving/mixing of a concentrate in/with a fluid in a multi-chamber bag and a method for the production of a medical fluid, in particular a dialysis fluid, in a multi-chamber bag. Moreover, the multi-chamber bag itself is disclosed. In all embodiments, at least two different concentrates can be included separately in powder form, liquid form or semi-liquid slurry form for dissolution in a fluid in the multi-chamber bag. In addition, the use of the multi-chamber bag in haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis or a haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis device, in particular as a container for a dialysis fluid in a haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis device, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Philippe Laffay, Michael Herrenbauer, Thomas Fichert, Franz Kugelmann, Joern Hoermann
  • Publication number: 20120175296
    Abstract: A dialysis supply system that includes a central dialysis liquid manufacturing unit, a dialysis treatment unit, a valve arrangement, and a hydraulic module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: WOLFGANG WEHMEYER, DIETMAR KÖHLER, MATTHIAS BRANDL, BENEDICT GLASER
  • Patent number: 8114061
    Abstract: A welding boat for a pouch has a center part and two prolongations extending therefrom in opposite directions and tapering acutely. The welding boat has an opening for the filling of the pouch with a substance in manufacture and inlets and outlets for the actual use of the pouch. The center part is substantially filled by an opening with a lumen which is as large as possible and preferably circular, and the side edges of the side prolongations contact the opening tangentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Peter Hilgers, Franz Kugelmann, Matthias Meisinger
  • Publication number: 20100269909
    Abstract: The present invention proposes an apparatus and a method for controlling the temperature of a dialysate, which is present in a dialysate container of a dialysate tank of a dialysis system, in a contact-free manner. It furthermore specifies a method for manufacturing such a dialysate container and system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Martin Prinz
  • Patent number: 7419645
    Abstract: A disinfecting and cleaning agent connection device for devices with a chamber for the holding or transport of fluids has a connection line that connects the fluid chamber with a disinfecting or cleaning agent container. The connection device has a connection line, a buffer chamber, a sealing element in the upper section of the buffer chamber connecting it with the fluid chamber, a channel which opens into the bottom section of the buffer chamber and has a siphon-type section whose end lies lower than the bottom of the buffer chamber, and a fluid sensor in the buffer chamber which is lower than the upper section of the siphon area and higher than the channel opening into the buffer chamber. The disinfecting and cleaning agent connection device can be used in conjunction with medical devices such as a dialysis machine and a reverse osmosis machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Elmar Wolter
  • Patent number: 7104978
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disposable element for a medical treatment device, especially a hemodialysis device. The inventive disposable element comprises a film bag filled with the dialysis liquid that consists of two superimposed flat films or a tubular film with connections for supplying and discharging the liquid. The film bag or the tubular film, in the condition ready for usage, is closed with a first weld on the top end and with a second weld on the lower end and is folded several times parallel to the longitudinal axis that is vertical in the condition ready for usage. The film bag is inserted in a receiving unit that is configured as a shaping dish that has a middle cylindrical section followed by an upper or lower convex section. The inventive disposable element, when combined with the receiving unit, unfolds more easily when being filled and has a lesser tendency to form creases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Hilgers, Matthias Brandl
  • Publication number: 20050170962
    Abstract: A selectively herbicidal composition for controlling grasses and weeds in crops of useful plants, comprising a) a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula I b) an amount, effective for herbicide antagonism, of a compound of formula II wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventor: Matthias Brandl
  • Publication number: 20050124493
    Abstract: A selectively herbicidal composition for controlling grasses and weeds in crops of useful plats, comprising a) a herbicidally effective mixture of MCPA, bromoxynil and a compound of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1 and b) an amount, effective for herbicide antagonism, of a compound of formula (II) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventor: Matthias Brandl
  • Publication number: 20050096625
    Abstract: The invention relates to a welding boat for a pouch having a center part and two prolongations extending, starting from this, in opposite directions and tapering acutely, which is provided, on the one hand, with an opening for the filling of the pouch with a substance in manufacture and, on the other hand, with inlets and outlets for the actual use of the pouch. In accordance with the invention, the center part is substantially filled by an opening with a lumen which is as large as possible and preferably circular and the side edges of the side prolongations contact the opening tangentially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Peter Hilgers, Franz Kugelmann, Matthias Meisinger
  • Publication number: 20050047959
    Abstract: The invention refers to a disinfecting and cleaning agent connection device for devices with a chamber for the holding or transport of fluids with a connection line for connection of the fluid chamber with a disinfecting or cleaning agent container. In accordance with the invention, the disinfecting agent connection device includes a connection line with the following features: a buffer chamber, a sealing element in the upper section of the buffer chamber connecting it with the fluid chamber, a channel which opens into the bottom section of the buffer chamber and has a siphon-type section whose end lies lower than the bottom of the buffer chamber and a fluid sensor in the buffer chamber which is lower than the upper section of the siphon area and higher than the channel opening into the buffer chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Elmar Wolter
  • Patent number: 6814869
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the preparation of solutions to be manufactured from at least two concentrates and a solvent. After placing of two concentrate holders into associated recipients, both concentrate holders are connected using a single connector having two connection states. In a first connection state, solvent flows to the first concentrate holder, with the solution being led into a collection holder and, after the flushing of the concentrate from the first concentrate holder, the connector moves to a second connection state in which an automatic connecting of the second concentrate holder takes place, whereupon solvent flows through the second concentrate holder and the solution is likewise supplied to the collection holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Brandl, Peter Hilgers, Franz Kugelmann, Matthias Meisinger
  • Publication number: 20030135193
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disposable element for a medical treatment device, especially a hemodialysis device. The inventive disposable element comprises a film bag filled with the dialysis liquid that consists of two superimposed flat films or a tubular film with connections for supplying and discharging the liquid. The film bag or the tubular film, in the condition ready for usage, is closed with a first weld on the top end and with a second weld (4, 5) on the lower end and is folded several times parallel to the longitudinal axis that is vertical in the condition ready for usage. The film bag is inserted in a receiving unit that is configured as a shaping dish (15) that has a middle cylindrical section (16) followed by an upper or lower convex section (17, 18). The inventive disposable element, when combined with the receiving unit, unfolds more easily when being filled and has a lesser tendency to form creases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Peter Hilgers, Matthias Brandl