Infusion pump

• US 20010044602A1
• Filed: 05/15/2001
• Published: 11/22/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Angersbach, Klaus, Heitmeier, Rolf
• Application Number:
  US09/854,601
• Publication Number:
  US 20010044602A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8206 battery-operated
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1413 Modular systems comprising interconnecting elements
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body

Abstract

An infusion pump comprises a mobile self-contained functional basic module (10) with a pump portion and an energy storage means. For more sophisticated programming and performance tasks, the basic module (10) is inserted into an operating module (20) with an input device (27) for more complex inputs. Thus, the infusion pump may be used as a basic module (10) or as a combination of the basic module and the operating module (20).

Claims

1. An infusion pump with a self-contained functional mobile basic module (10) comprising a pump portion, an energy storage means and a setting device (16), and with an operating module (20) adapted to be coupled to the basic module (10) for transferring energy and data and having an input device (17), the operating module and the basic module together forming an upgraded pump unit.

2. The infusion pump of

claim 1

, wherein the operating module (20) has sensor terminals.

3. The infusion pump of

claim 1

or

2

, wherein the operating module (20) has at least one alarm terminal.

4. The infusion pump of

claim 1

, wherein the operating module (20)includes a data base for medicaments.

5. The infusion pump of

claim 1

, wherein the operating module (20) has a holder for mounting it to support means (29).

6. The infusion pump of

claim 1

, wherein the operating module (20) includes a reproduction device for reading data carriers.

7. The infusion pump of

claim 1

, wherein the basic module (10) has a display device (15) on an elongate housing (11), whose representations may be displayed upside down so that they can readily be read under different orientations of the housing (11).

8. The infusion pump of

claim 1

, wherein the operating module (20) forms a programming station for the basic module (10).

9. The infusion pump of

claim 1

, wherein the operating module (20) has a receptacle into which the basic module (10) may be inserted and which covers the setting device (16) of the basic module (10).