Patents by Inventor Richard Robert Bernd Günther

Richard Robert Bernd Günther 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).

  • Sealing means for sealing a volume of a medical treatment arrangement against another volume, as well as an arrangement and a method
    Patent number: 9827358
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sealing device for sealing at least one first volume of an arrangement for the treatment of at least one medical fluid against at least one second volume, wherein the first volume is provided for receiving at least one external functional device. The sealing device includes at least one first connection device whereby the sealing device may be connected to the arrangement. In addition an arrangement and a method are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Goetz Günther, Markus Koehler, Uwe Lapp, Martin Lauer, Ralf Mueller, Peter Scheunert, Wolfgang Schulz, Udo Waeber, Manfred Weis, Andrea Günther, Richard Robert Bernd Günther, Gesa Dagmar Günther
  • External functional means, blood treatment apparatus for receiving an external functional means in accordance with the invention, and method
    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
  • Device and method for blood treatment with single needle operation
    Patent number: 9511181
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for blood treatment in a single-needle operating mode. The blood treatment device has an extracorporeal blood circuit comprising a blood supply line leading to the inlet of a blood treatment unit and a blood return line leading away from the outlet of the blood treatment unit. Blood collecting means, for example a blood collecting container, is provided in the blood return line, said means being connected to means for storing gas, for example an air reservoir, by a flow line. The flow connection comprises two line branches, one branch being used to transfer gas from the air reservoir into the blood collecting container and the other branch being used to transfer gas from the blood collecting container into the air reservoir. The connection branch for transferring gas from the air store into the blood collecting container contains means for compressing air, for example a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Goetz Günther, Andrea Günther, Richard Robert Bernd Günther, Gesa Dagmar Günther, Michael Herrenbauer, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller