Patents Issued in August 29, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190262548
    Abstract: A medication delivery device and/or dosing mechanisms suitable for use in medication delivery devices, in particular in pent-type injectors, preferably having a dose setting system and a drive device enabling the administration of a medicinal product from a single- or multi-dose medication cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Harms, Steffen Raab, Dominic George Webber, James Roberts Howarth, Tevor John Beckett, Geoffrey Philip Gray, John David Cross
  • Publication number: 20190262549
    Abstract: A safety catheter includes a catheter hub, a needle cannula having a tip, and a tip protector. The tip protector includes an outer member and an inner member therein. The outer member has a projection releasably engaging the catheter hub. The inner member has a pair of arms extending to free ends from a base. The inner member is axially shiftable relative to the outer member between a first position wherein the needle tip is distal of the tip protector and the free ends of the arms are spread apart such that the distal tip is not shielded, and a second position wherein the tip is within the inner and outer members and the free ends of the arms are brought into close proximity such that the distal tip is shielded. The inner member is entirely received within the outer member in both the fort and the second positions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas T. Koehler, Kathryn L. Felicito, Harsh Chheda, Oscar R. Abriles
  • Publication number: 20190262550
    Abstract: A pump cassette body for detecting air bubbles in a fluid pathway, comprises an upstanding flow director vane, a fitment integrally molded into the pump cassette body, wherein the fitment comprises a base integrally molded into the pump cassette body, an elastomeric member attached to the base, and a housing at least partially surrounding the elastomeric member, wherein the elastomeric member is co-molded to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Daniel ABAL
  • Publication number: 20190262551
    Abstract: Self-heated intravenous apparatus comprising an intravenous tube (1) with a tube wall (10) and a heat generation layer (12) coated on the tube wall (10) configured to perform an exothermic reaction activated by oxygen and/or water for heating an infusion liquid conducted in the intravenous tube (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Andreas FRASNELLI
  • Publication number: 20190262552
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining the volume of fluid dispensed. The apparatus has an acoustic volume sensor that acoustically excites a reference volume and a measurement chamber with a loudspeaker and measures the acoustic response with microphones acoustically coupled to the reference and the measurement chamber. The loudspeaker and sensing microphones are connected to the measurement chamber by separate ports. A detachable dispensing chamber is coupled to the acoustic volume sensor. The volume of the fluid dispensed is determined by a processor based on the acoustic response of the microphones to acoustic excitement by the loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Dean Kamen, Larry B. Gray, Russell H. Beavis, John M. Kerwin, Derek G. Kane
  • Publication number: 20190262553
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining the volume of fluid dispensed. The apparatus has an acoustic volume sensor that acoustically excites a reference volume and a measurement chamber with a loudspeaker and measures the acoustic response with microphones acoustically coupled to the reference and the measurement chamber. The loudspeaker and sensing microphones are connected to the measurement chamber by separate ports. A detachable dispensing chamber is coupled to the acoustic volume sensor. The volume of the fluid dispensed is determined by a processor based on the acoustic response of the microphones to acoustic excitement by the loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Dean Kamen, Larry B. Gray, Russell H. Beavis, John M. Kerwin, Derek G. Kane
  • Publication number: 20190262554
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining the volume of fluid dispensed. The apparatus has an acoustic volume sensor that acoustically excites a reference volume and a measurement chamber with a loudspeaker and measures the acoustic response with microphones acoustically coupled to the reference and the measurement chamber. The loudspeaker and sensing microphones are connected to the measurement chamber by separate ports. A detachable dispensing chamber is coupled to the acoustic volume sensor. The volume of the fluid dispensed is determined by a processor based on the acoustic response of the microphones to acoustic excitement by the loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Dean Kamen, Larry B. Gray, Russell H. Beavis, John M. Kerwin, Derek G. Kane
  • Publication number: 20190262555
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining the volume of fluid dispensed. The apparatus has an acoustic volume sensor that acoustically excites a reference volume and a measurement chamber with a loudspeaker and measures the acoustic response with microphones acoustically coupled to the reference and the measurement chamber. The loudspeaker and sensing microphones are connected to the measurement chamber by separate ports. A detachable dispensing chamber is coupled to the acoustic volume sensor. The volume of the fluid dispensed is determined by a processor based on the acoustic response of the microphones to acoustic excitement by the loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Dean Kamen, Larry B. Gray, Russell H. Beavis, John M. Kerwin, Derek G. Kane
  • Publication number: 20190262556
    Abstract: A spacer may improve the effectiveness of medication delivery by an inhaler. The spacer may be configured to store the inhaler to improve compactness and/or portability of the spacer and inhaler. The inhaler may be coupled to a retaining device, inhaler container, and/or the like that restricts movement of the inhaler to predetermined positions and/or orientations. A user may be able to transition the inhaler between a stored position and an active position by moving the inhaler translationally and/or rotationally. The inhaler may be able to remain coupled to the retaining device and/or inhaler container, and the retaining device and/or inhaler container may be able to remain coupled to the spacer during transition from the stored position to the active position. The spacer may be sized to fit in a pants pocket in an embodiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Christopher V. Ciancone
  • Publication number: 20190262557
    Abstract: A pulmonary drug delivery system is disclosed, including a breath-powered, dry powder inhaler, and a cartridge for delivering a dry powder formulation. The inhaler and cartridge can be provided with a drug delivery formulation comprising, for example, a diketopiperazine and an active ingredient, including, peptides and proteins such as insulin and glucagon-like peptide 1 for the treatment of endocrine disease, for example, diabetes and/or obesity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Chad C. Smutney, Benoit Adamo, John M. Polidoro, P. Spencer Kinsey, Dennis Overfield, Carl R. Sahi, Christine Billings, Mark T. Marino
  • Publication number: 20190262558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for operating a respiration apparatus and a respiration system, and also a respiration apparatus and a respiration system. The respiration system comprises a respiration apparatus and a computer software program for an external computer to operate the respiration apparatus. The respiration apparatus comprises a processor device and an apparatus software program and an apparatus configuration. The validities of the computer software, the apparatus software and the apparatus configuration are in each case characterized by a version. The versions are compared with one another to detect a version conflict. If invalid versions are present, the computer software is provided with a program component with a limit value and a plausibility rule, or the setting parameters are sorted into a first group and a second group. The setting parameters of the first group are retained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Igor BYCHKOV, Florian STOCKWALD
  • Publication number: 20190262559
    Abstract: A therapeutic device for treating conditions of a user's nasal cavities, sinuses, and/or ear canals includes a housing which the user may hold to apply the therapeutic device to the user, the housing including an inlet that allows air to enter the therapeutic device. An acoustic vibrator located within the housing provides an acoustic vibration to the user, and a power supply located within the housing provides power to the acoustic vibrator. A mask is connected to the housing and includes a nasal interface that is appliable around the nose of the user. A valve of the mask opens to allow the user to breathe through the inlet and closes to prevent the user from exhaling through the inlet. The mask further includes a diaphragm and a nasal cavity in which a user's nostrils are located when the nasal interface is applied to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Healthy Humming, LLC
    Inventors: Richard K. Bogan, David J. Lewis, Caleb Pinckney, David Bonner, Michael Maloney
  • Publication number: 20190262560
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an improved method of determining a water out condition in a humidified gases supply apparatus. The method includes a two-step process including a primary determination of a water out condition and a secondary determination of a water out condition. This primary determination is made during observation of the normal operation of the apparatus. During the secondary determination the method takes temporary control over the humidifying part of the apparatus. The secondary determination confirms or contradicts the primary determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Po-Yen LIU, Ivan Chih-Fan TENG, Stefan Leo VAN WORKUM, Oliver Samuel STEINER, Anthony James NEWLAND
  • Publication number: 20190262561
    Abstract: A lightweight impeller is provided for use in a pressurised gas source for a CPAP or other breathing assistance apparatus. The impeller can be shroudless or otherwise lightweight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Johannes Nicolaas Bothma, Scott Bent, Adam John Darby
  • Publication number: 20190262562
    Abstract: A cuff pressure stabilizer includes a substantially rigid protective housing and a balloon disposed therein. The balloon has a base low pressure of 10 cm H2O when it contains a base low-pressure volume of air. When the balloon contains a first medium-pressure volume of air, the balloon has a first medium pressure of 25 cm H2O. When the balloon contains a second medium-pressure volume of air, the balloon has a second medium pressure of 40 cm H2O, and at least 20% of an outer surface of the balloon touches a portion of the inner surface of the housing. The second medium-pressure volume of air equals the base low-pressure volume of air plus a second incremental quantity of air that is less than 60 cc. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: AIRWAY MEDIX S.A.
    Inventors: Oron ZACHAR, Yair Ramot, Eizik Amar
  • Publication number: 20190262563
    Abstract: An artificial airway device 1 to facilitate lung ventilation of a patient, comprising an airway tube 2 including an airway lumen 3, a mask 4 at one end of the airway tube, the mask including a backplate 5 and having a peripheral formation 6 capable of forming a seal around the circumference of the laryngeal inlet, the peripheral formation surrounding a hollow interior space or lumen 7 of the mask and the airway lumen 3 opening into the lumen of the mask, wherein the airway tube 2 comprises an outer tube part 201 and an inner core 202, the inner core 202 defining partly or completely the airway lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Kien Chung KWOK
  • Publication number: 20190262564
    Abstract: Provided is a tracheostomy tube having a freely openable/closable fenestration without substantially narrowing an inner cavity of the tracheostomy tube. It has been found that each of two tracheostomy tubes having the configurations (A) and (B) has the fenestration that is freely openable/closable with use of a shutter without substantially narrowing the inner cavity of the tracheostomy tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Toshiro UMEZAKI, Tomoyuki HASEGAWA, Masatoshi SUDA
  • Publication number: 20190262565
    Abstract: A dental appliance apparatus is disclosed herein. In various aspects, the dental appliance may include a body removably attachable to one or more teeth selected from premolars and molars, and a flange extending forth from lingual portions of the body to contact a tongue at one or more locations proximate the premolars and the molars in order to cause a contraction of the genioglossus that positions the tongue anteriorly and downward toward the mandible by stimulation of the hypoglossal nerve. The dental appliance may include a connector connected to the body, and the connector may pass about buccal-labial sides of the anterior teeth. A bumper may be included on a labial side of the connector, and the bumper may contact the lips to promote pursed lips breathing. An anterior flange may extend lingually from the connector to stimulate the hypoglossal nerve proximate a tip of the tongue in order to cause contraction of the genioglossus to position the tongue anteriorly and downward toward the mandible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Dena P. GARNER
  • Publication number: 20190262566
    Abstract: A mask for patient ventilation that includes a frame for surrounding a respiratory opening of a patient and forming a cavity between an inner surface of the mask and the patient. The frame forms an access aperture that can enable access to the cavity and any of a nose and a mouth region of the patient without requiring removal of the mask or frame from the patient. A removable insert can be attached and detached from the frame without requiring removal of the mask or frame from the patient. When attached to the frame, the removable insert can obstruct the access aperture and form a portion of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher M. VARGA, Stephen J. BIRCH
  • Publication number: 20190262567
    Abstract: A face mask for extended wear by a user including a customized, contoured facial mask portion constructed and configured to cover and matingly contact a corresponding contoured surface area of a human face, preferably formed by 3D printing methods and materials. The face mask includes strap attachments and at least one strap for securing the customized, contoured facial mask portion to the face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Lucy Carol Davis
  • Publication number: 20190262568
    Abstract: A gas-washout vent includes a housing with a first wall with one or more passages through the wall configured to provide fluid communication with a portion of the patient interface system exposed to a therapy pressure. The passages include respective first openings on a first surface of the first wall. The housing at least partially defines a second opening in communication with ambient atmosphere. A diffusing material is located at least partially within the housing to be adjacent the first surface. A surface of the diffusing material facing the first surface is spaced away from the first surface by a gap that extends to provide a fluid communication between all of the first openings and between all of the first openings and the second opening. The housing is configured so that air is prevented from flowing out of the housing at all areas directly opposite each of the first openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Tatt Hoong CHOW, Muditha Pradeep DANTANARAYANA, Rahul KHERA, Dimitri Marco MAURER, Min Li TEE
  • Publication number: 20190262569
    Abstract: A washout vent for a mask for use with a system for supplying breathable gas pressurized above atmospheric pressure to an airway of a mammal. The washout vent includes a vent orifice adapted for gas washout. The orifice includes one or more features that contribute to noise reduction, such as a channel with converging walls towards atmosphere, and/or a channel having one or more walls provided with surface treatment and/or contouring, such as roughening and/or scalloped portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Lee James VELISS, Philip Thomas STALLARD
  • Publication number: 20190262570
    Abstract: A nasal cannula according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an oxygen supplying portion which forms a space inside in which a nose and a mouth of a user can be disposed and is able to supply oxygen in a state of being put on by the user into the nose of the user; and a mask portion to which the oxygen supplying portion is attached in a detachable manner therein and is configured to be put on a face of the user. Since a space in which a nose and a mouth of a user can be disposed is provided inside the oxygen supplying portion so that a user can put on the nasal cannula in a convenient state and the oxygen supplying portion is put on in a state of being supported by the mask portion, oxygen can be supplied into the nose of the user and at the same time external air can be filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SOGANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Tae-Soo LEE, Seung Kwon OH, Seung Hyun RYU, Bong Kwan SON, Sung Hun HA, Dong Min SHIN, Yong Sang SHIN
  • Publication number: 20190262571
    Abstract: A swivel elbow and connector assembly for a patient interface system includes a ring configured to be sealingly secured in an aperture of the patient interface system. The ring includes a first side in an interior of the patient interface system and a second side at an exterior of the patient interface system when the ring is secured in the aperture. The ring also includes a plurality of vents configured to permit flow of gases from the interior to the exterior of the patient interface system. The swivel elbow and connector assembly includes an elbow swivelably secured in the ring. A patient interface system for delivering a flow of breathable gas to a user includes a patient interface structure configured to sealing engage the face of the user. The patient interface structure includes an aperture. A swivel elbow and connector assembly is sealingly secured in the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Teck FONG, Stephen GRAY, Adam Francis BARLOW, Robert Thomas BURNHAM, Christopher Scott SKIPPER, David Anthony PIDCOCK, Tumul GUPTA, Damien Julian MAZZONE, Jose Ignacio ROMAGNOLI, Christopher Samuel CULLEN
  • Publication number: 20190262572
    Abstract: A method of providing a breath to a human patient. The patient has a patient connection connected, by a patient circuit, to a ventilator having a first ventilator connection and a different second ventilator connection. Each of the first and second ventilator connections are in fluid communication with the patient circuit. The method includes identifying, with the ventilator, initiation of an inspiratory phase of the breath, delivering a bolus of oxygen to the first ventilator connection before or during the inspiratory phase, and delivering breathing gases comprising air to the second ventilator connection during the inspiratory phase. The ventilator isolates the bolus of oxygen delivered to the first ventilator connection from the breathing gases delivered to the second ventilator connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Douglas F. DeVries, David M. Good, Shan E. Gaw, Joseph Cipollone, Richard Branson
  • Publication number: 20190262573
    Abstract: A cartridge comprising layers of adsorbent sheet is described. The cartridge includes an indicator that characterizes the consumption state of the adsorbent within the cartridge. The indicator is applied in a way such that discrete areas of indicator are visible. These discontinuous areas of indicator may be applied to the outside surface of the cartridge. Alternatively, the discontinuous areas may be formed by cutting windows in the outermost layer of the cartridge and either coating indicator on the layer beneath the window, placing an indicator layer between the window and the layer beneath it or filling the window with an indicating plug of material so that the indicator is visible from the outside of the cartridge. The indicator layer and indicator plug embodiments allow the use of any indicator with any adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Micropore, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas B. McKenna, Vince Suddard, Glenn Shealy
  • Publication number: 20190262574
    Abstract: A device (102) provides respiratory treatment for SDB (including mild OSA) and other respiratory conditions. A flow generator warms and humidifies gas at controlled flow levels. For example, the device (102) delivers breathable gas to the upper airway at flow rates of about 10-35 Liters/minute. Levels of flow rate, temperature and/or humidification of the device may be automatically adjusted in response to the detection of SDB events. The device may also automatically deliver adjustments of any of the levels in accordance with detected phases of respiratory cycles. In some embodiments, the device automatically delivers distinct levels to either of the nares based on independent control of flow to each nare. A warm-up procedure controls temperature and humidity at a desired target during a ramp-up of flow to the set therapy level. A cool-down procedure controls temperature above the dewpoint to avoid condensation internal to the device and patient interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Peter John Sweeney, Adam Vivian Benjafield, Steven Paul Farrugia, Dieter Heidmann, Glenn Richards, Paul Jan Klasek
  • Publication number: 20190262575
    Abstract: A candle device with a support bracket for a melting pot for aroma infused wax and a reusable cuff to extinguish the candle upon implementation is disclosed. The present disclosure teaches an aesthetic, simple and extremely convenient and safe, readily extinguishable dispensing device to dispense volatile active materials, such as air fresheners, fragrances, insect repellants, and mood enhancing aromatherapy compositions into the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Saskia de Knegt
  • Publication number: 20190262576
    Abstract: In one embodiment, there is a computer-implemented method for delivering therapy to a user, comprising: providing data representative of an initial sensory stimulus to a sensory stimulus device and causing the sensory stimulus device to provide the initial sensory stimulus to the user; receiving alpha wave biometric data of the user from a brain electrical activity sensor while the sensory stimulus device provides the initial sensory stimulus; determining whether the alpha wave biometric data meets sensory stimulus adjustment criteria; if the alpha wave biometric data meets sensory stimulus adjustment criteria, adjusting the sensory stimulus provided to the user by providing data representative of an adjusted sensory stimulus to the sensory stimulus device and causing the sensory stimulus device to provide the adjusted sensory stimulus; and if the alpha wave biometric data fails to meet sensory stimulus adjustment criteria, continue causing the sensory stimulus device to provide the initial sensory stimulus t
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Steven J. Mastrianni
  • Publication number: 20190262577
    Abstract: Devices, assemblies, systems and methods for packaging an elongated medical device including a securement member for securing the medical device within the packaging. The packaging and/or assembly may include a carrier tube configured to receive a portion of the elongated medical device within a lumen thereof, and a securement member coupled to the carrier tube for securing the medical device relative to the carrier tube. The securement member may include a body defining a tapered channel extending into the body, the tapered channel including an inner surface configured to engage an outer surface of the medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventor: JOEL RICHARD ANDERSON
  • Publication number: 20190262578
    Abstract: Provided is a nasal implant assembly comprising a hollow implant having a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end configured to have a segment deposited with magnetic particles; and a medical syringe configured to be attachable to the proximal end of the hollow implant and also configured to be capable of retaining and transporting a magnetically active fluid composition through the implant to a nasal cavity of a subject. Also provided is a method of treating chronic rhinosinusitis in a subject, the method comprising the steps of positioning a nasal implant having magnetic particles into a nasal cavity; loading a medical syringe with a magnetically active fluid composition; and transporting the loaded magnetically active fluid composition to the nasal cavity to treat chronic rhinosinusitis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas J. Holman
  • Publication number: 20190262579
    Abstract: A urinary catheter is disclosed, comprising a tubular shaft extending between an insertable end and a flared rearward part with a discharge end, and with an internal lumen extending between at least one drainage opening at or in the vicinity of the insertable end and an outlet opening at the discharge end. The rearward part comprises an outward protrusion formed at the discharge end around the outlet opening. Further, the tubular shaft is an extruded tube and the rearward part is monolithically and integrally connected with the tubular shaft. A method and apparatus for producing such a catheter is also disclosed, involving forming of the flared rearward part at an end of the tubular shaft and forming of the outward protrusion at the end of the flared rearward part simultaneously with the forming of the flared rearward part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Martin Lovmar
  • Publication number: 20190262580
    Abstract: An indwelling venous catheter and method capable of destroying undesirable cellular growth is provided. The catheter includes a shaft having at least one lumen and adapted to be placed inside a vein for long term use. A plurality of electrodes are positioned near a distal section of the shaft and are adapted to receive from a voltage generator a plurality of electrical pulses in an amount sufficient to cause destruction of cells in the undesirable cellular growth that have grown around the shaft. In one aspect of the invention, a probe is configured to be removably insertable into the at least one lumen and the electrodes are positioned near the distal section of the probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: AngioDynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, William C. Hamilton, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190262581
    Abstract: An introducer sheath assembly (10) having a sheath tube (12), a hub (16), a valve (30) and a valve-retaining cap (50) on the proximal end of the hub. The cap (50) is so secured to the hub (16) as to have a closed, locked position and also an open position permitting access to the interior of the hub and the valve (30) while the cap (50) remains secured to the hub (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Mahase Nardeo, William J. McCreight
  • Publication number: 20190262582
    Abstract: An introducer sheath assembly (10) having a sheath tube (12), a hub (16), a valve (30) and a valve-retaining cap (50) on the proximal end of the hub. The cap (50) is so secured to the hub (16) as to have a closed, locked position and also an open position permitting access to the interior of the hub and the valve (30) while the cap (50) remains secured to the hub (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Mahase Nardeo, William J. McCreight
  • Publication number: 20190262583
    Abstract: A medical tube holder includes: a holder body having a through hole therein through which a medical tube is passed; and a contact means provided in the holder body in a direction of narrowing a width of the through hole to increase a frictional force with an outer circumferential surface of the medical tube, wherein the contact means is brought into close contact with the outer circumferential surface of the medical tube passed through the through hole, such that the holder body is fitted over the medical tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SMHERS
    Inventor: Se Hee HER
  • Publication number: 20190262584
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an anchor device may include bendable anchor mechanism that is deployable in a subcutaneous layer to releasably secure the anchor device to a patient's body. Certain embodiments of the anchor mechanism may include one or more barbs that flexibly bend in response to an insertion or removal force. As such, the anchor mechanism may be inserted into a subcutaneous layer, and removed from the subcutaneous layer, without the need for a separate actuation device to extend or retract the barbs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Michael S. Rosenberg, Timothy J. Claude
  • Publication number: 20190262585
    Abstract: Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system include an anchor device that receives a medical instrument (such as a catheter or the like) and secures the instrument in place relative to a skin penetration point. In some circumstances, the anchor device may allow the anchor device to be used after medical instrument is already in place without the need for a second penetration point for the anchor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Michael S. Rosenberg, Mark R. Christianson, Kyle P. Taylor, Andrew T. Forsberg, Jeffrey D. Killion
  • Publication number: 20190262586
    Abstract: Needle assemblies, such as catheter devices, and related methods having a needle hub with a needle, a catheter tube with a catheter hub and having the needle extending through the catheter tube. A valve is positioned in an interior cavity of the catheter hub and a valve actuator having an extension leg with an engagement section for supporting an arm of a needle safety clip when the safety clip is located in the interior cavity of the catheter hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Boon Ping Neoh, Jarryd Keng Gene Ng
  • Publication number: 20190262587
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a guidewire configured to reduce the incidence of medical accidents when using guidewires including, but not limited to, the incidence of guidewires accidentally being pushed completely into a patient through a needle in the patient, guidewires accidently being left inside patients after the placement of central venous (and other) catheters, and guidewires accidently being left inside patients after removal of the catheter (at the end of an operation of other medical procedure). In particular, an intermediary portion (either in the form of a new shape (referred to herein as “an obstruction portion”) or an alternate (e.g., more flexible) material) of the guidewire inhibits further advancement into the needle with pushing motion. (The intermediary portion can be implemented as an additional portion connected between the patient-side portion and the doctor-side portion of the guidewire as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Horizon Patents, LLC
    Inventors: Mark M. Gottlieb, James B. Solomon
  • Publication number: 20190262588
    Abstract: A guide wire which is flexible in a distal portion and which can prevent occurrence of damage such as breakage and separation of a coil in the distal portion has an elongated core member and a tubular body located so as to cover a periphery of a distal portion of the core member. The tubular body is formed using a belt-shaped member wound in a spiral shape, and has an engagement portion which causes side portions adjacent in a longitudinal axis direction of the core member to engage with each other in the belt-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kayo KAMBARA
  • Publication number: 20190262589
    Abstract: A guidewire for guidance of a catheter or of a catheter introducer sheath into a human patient. The guidewire has, when in untensioned condition, a curved deflection section at its distal end and a shaft with one or more curved steering sections proximal of a straight section proximally neighboring the deflection section. This facilitates steering a guidewire to a predetermined location inside the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Johan Willem Pieter Marsman
  • Publication number: 20190262590
    Abstract: A balloon sheath and associated methods are provided. An alternative embodiment comprising a sheath having a flaring end and associated methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Venkat Tummala, Fakhir F. Elmasri
  • Publication number: 20190262591
    Abstract: A girth adjustable device for physical therapy such as the dilation and stretch of body orifices that can repeatedly, gradually increase a uniform and sustainable pressure over the entire lateral surface area and over the entire length of a body orifice at the same time, and gradually decrease the pressure uniformly from the entire lateral surface area and the entire length of a body orifice at the same time. The girth adjustable device comprises at least one controller, a housing, at least one threaded shaft, at least one module, a plurality of shaft member and at least one sheath. The part of the device inserted into a body orifice is the shaft. In a body orifice, the user via the controller rotates clockwise the threaded shaft to increase the girth of the shaft. Then, the user via the controller rotates counter-clockwise the threaded shaft to decrease the girth of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Benjamin Ernest Héloïs Jayol
  • Publication number: 20190262592
    Abstract: A dilating device for the prostatic urethra comprising: Prostatic implant includes independently actuatable distal retractor incorporating and proximal retractor. Retractors may be connected via a spine member. System and method include implant manipulator detachably connected to implant, for manipulating and forcing implant into close proximity, for delivery into subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Butterfly Medical Ltd.
    Inventor: Yehuda Bachar
  • Publication number: 20190262593
    Abstract: A medical fluid suspension generating apparatus for performing medical procedures includes a Venturi-agitating tip assembly composed of a multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end thereof and a tip at a distal second end thereof. The apparatus also includes a compressed medical fluid unit fluidly connected to the multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end of the Venturi-agitating tip assembly and a medical solution fluidly connected to the multi-channel arrangement at a proximal first end of the Venturi-agitating tip assembly. Pressurized sclerosant or other chemical medical solution, from the compressed medical fluid unit, and the medical solution of sclerosant or other chemical medical solution are combined within the Venturi-agitating tip assembly in a manner generating an enriched medical suspension that is ultimately dispensed from the suspension delivery apparatus to spray or wash the inner wall of a lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Frank Levy, Kimberley Levy
  • Publication number: 20190262594
    Abstract: Methods and devices that provide enhanced delivery of a composition to a body region of a patient utilizing radiofrequency energy include directing a first electrode and a second electrode coupled to a radiofrequency energy source to a location proximate to the body region. Radiofrequency energy is provided in modulated pulses from the radiofrequency energy source to the body region from at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode to provide a delivery condition configured to enhance delivery of the composition. The composition is delivered proximate to the body region using a composition delivery element. Devices for enhance composition delivery are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: ASAHI MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Wayne OGATA, Xiang Ian GU, Steven MEYER
  • Publication number: 20190262595
    Abstract: A balloon catheter which is inflated after insertion into a tubular tissue includes: a balloon catheter body made of a polymer material, which is inflatable by fluid injection; and a plurality of microneedles formed on the surface of the balloon catheter body, wherein the microneedles are formed by transferring a biocompatible polymer resin or photocurable resin, filled in intaglio patterns formed on a mold, which have a shape corresponding to a shape of the microneedles, to the surface of the balloon catheter body which is in close contact with the mold, by a thermal molding, thermal crosslinking or photocuring process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Won Hyoung RYU, Kang Ju LEE
  • Publication number: 20190262596
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a breast nipple areola complex tattoo stencil comprising first, second and third stencil sections. The first stencil section defines an areola area. The second stencil section defines a nipple area and tubercle areas. One or more registration elements on the first and/or second stencil sections enable registration of the second stencil section to the first stencil section. The third stencil section defines one or both of a nipple shading area and a nipple highlight area. One or more registration elements on the third and/or second stencil sections enable registration of the third stencil section to the second stencil section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Alanna M. Rebecca, Solomon M. Azouz
  • Publication number: 20190262597
    Abstract: A variable volume infusion port is provided. The infusion port may include a port body having an internal fluid reservoir, a septum, a stem to fluidly couple to a catheter lumen, and a displaceable member disposed in the internal fluid reservoir. In a first position, the displaceable member is disposed proximate the septum, providing a relatively small fluid volume within the infusion port. Insertion of an injection device through the septum causes the displaceable member to move to a second location distal from the septum, providing a relatively large fluid volume within the infusion port for the duration the injection device remains in the infusion port. The displaceable member may include a rigid member operably coupled to a biasing element or a flexible member coupled to a biasing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventor: Richard P. RODGERS