Auto-pumping unit for bag-valve-mask resuscitator

• US 20050284472A1
• Filed: 06/28/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jimmy Lin
• Original Assignee: Jimmy Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Jimmy
• Application Number:
  US10/876,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20050284472A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/202.29
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0057 Pumps therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0084 self-reinflatable by elasticity, e.g. resuscitation squeeze bags
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/103 rotating
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/106 reciprocating

Abstract

An auto-pumping unit for a bag-valve-mask resuscitator includes a housing, a pressure device, and driving mechanism. The housing has a receiving space for accommodating a bag of the bag-valve-mask, and a baffle mounted at a side of the receiving space. The pressure device is movably mounted at the other side of the receiving space opposite to the baffle. The driving mechanism is mounted in the housing and controlled to drive the pressure device to move close to or away from the baffle to compress or release the bag at a predetermined speed.

Claims

1. An auto-pumping unit for automatically compressing a ball of a bag-valve-mask resuscitator, comprising:

a housing having a receiving space for accommodating said bag and a baffle mounted at a side of said receiving space for stopping against said bag within said receiving space;

a pressure device movably mounted at a side of said receiving space opposite to said baffle for moving close to or away from said baffle; and

a driving mechanism mounted in said housing for driving reciprocating movement of said pressure device at a predetermined speed to further compress said bag at a predetermined frequency.

2. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 1 further comprising two cord members, said two cord members being mounted in said housing at two opposite sides of said receiving space for support two distal ends of said bag within said receiving space.

3. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 1, wherein said driving mechanism drives said pressure device to reciprocate linearly.

4. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 3, wherein said pressure device comprises a rack, and the driving mechanism comprises a transmission gear meshed with said rack and rotated to drive said rack to reciprocate.

5. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 3, wherein said driving mechanism comprises a wheel, a first guide rope, and a second guide rope, said wheel being mounted in said housing, said first guide rope being fixedly connected between a front side of said pressure device and a right side of said wheel, said second guide rope being connected between a rear side of said pressure device and a left side of said wheel, said wheel being rotated to drive said pressure device to reciprocate.

6. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 3, wherein said driving mechanism comprises a wheel, a first link, and a second link, said wheel being rotatably mounted in said housing, said first link having a first end pivoted to an axis of said wheel and a second end connected to a periphery of said wheel, said second link having a first end pivoted to the second end of said first link and a second end pivoted to the rear end of said pressure device for enabling reciprocating movement of said pressure device by rotation of said wheel.

7. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 1, wherein said housing comprises a main body and a movable part movable relatively to said main body and positioned at a predetermined location;

said baffle is located on said movable part;

said receiving space being located between said movable part and said main body.

8. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 7, wherein said main body of said housing comprises a semicircular swivel plate pivotally mounted inside said main body on a pivot of a top side of said main body, said pivot dividing said swivel plate into two halves having different radius of curvature, said swivel plate having a finger block at a bottom side thereof for pulling by a hand to turn said swivel plate out of said main body for stopping against said movable part for enabling said bag to be set in said receiving space between said movable part and said main body.

9. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 7, wherein said housing comprises an elongated plate member mounted at an inner top side of said hollow main body and movable in and out of said hollow main body, said elongated plate member having an outer end extended out of said hollow main body for stopping against said movable part for enabling said bag to be set in said receiving space between said movable part and said main body.

10. The auto-pumping unit as defined in claim 7, wherein said housing comprises an elongated retractable member connected between said main body and a bottom side of said movable part and movable to drive said movable part to move close to or away from said main body.

11. An auto-pumping unit for automatically compressing a ball of a bag-valve-mask resuscitator, comprising:

a housing having a receiving space for accommodating said bag;

two pressure devices movably mounted respectively at two sides of said receiving space for moving close to or away from each other therebetween; and

a driving mechanism mounted in said housing for driving said two pressure devices to reciprocate close to or away from each other at a predetermined speed.