Container For Medical Devices

• US 20090008279A1
• Filed: 01/22/2007
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Coloplast A/S
• Original Assignee: Coloplast A/S
• Inventors: Tanghoej, Allan
• Granted Patent: US 7,766,163 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/364
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/30 Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/002 Packages specially adapted therefor combined with means for introducing catheters, e.g. dispensers, A61M25/0113; catheter kit packages for surgical articles A61B50/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0111 Aseptic insertion devices

Abstract

The present invention relates to a package comprising a container defining a compartment for containing a liquid and at least partly a medical device. The compartment extends in a longitudinal direction from a bottom of the container towards an opening of the container, wherein a first section of the compartment has a cross-sectional area which is smaller than a cross-sectional area of a second section of the compartment, and where the first section is arranged between the opening and the second section. As the cross-sectional area of the first section is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the second section the first section will function as a stop for the liquid in case the container is placed in a horizontal orientation.

Claims

1. A package comprising a container defining a compartment for containing a liquid and at least partly a medical device, said compartment extending in a longitudinal direction from a bottom of the container towards an opening of the container,

wherein a first section of the compartment has a cross-sectional area which is smaller than a cross-sectional area of a second section of the compartment, and

where the first section is arranged between the opening and the second section.

2. A package according to claim 1, containing a liquid wherein a sub-compartment of the compartment, defined by

a plane, tangential to the smallest circumference of the first section of the compartment and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the compartment, and

the second section of the compartment,

has a volume which is larger than the volume of the liquid contained in the compartment.

3. A package according to claim 1, wherein the outer circumference of the container decreases in at least a part of the longitudinal direction.

4. A package according to claim 1, wherein the container is elongated and has a dimension which is larger in the longitudinal direction than the diametrical dimension of any cross-sectional area of the container.

5. A package according to claim 1, wherein a third section of the compartment has a cross-sectional area which is larger than the cross-sectional area of the first section, and that the third section is arranged between the opening and the first section.

6. A package according to claim 1, wherein the medical device is a catheter.

7. A package according to claim 6, wherein the catheter comprises a distal end and a proximal end, and a connector attached to the distal end of the catheter, and that the outer circumference of at least a part of said connector is larger than the circumference of at least a part of the first section of the compartment.

8. A package according to claim 7, wherein the connector, when placed in the compartment of the container, projects beyond the opening of the container.

9. A package according to claim 6, wherein the catheter is a telescopic catheter comprising a proximal section and a distal section, both sections forming a part of a conduit and where the two sections are capable of being arranged in a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration where the extent of the conduit in the collapsed configuration is smaller than the extent of the conduit in the expanded configuration.

10. A package according to claim 1, wherein at least one support member extending in a radial direction from the inner surface of the container towards a support surface of the respective support member is arranged in at least a part of the second section of the compartment.

11. A package according to claim 10, wherein at least three support members extends radially from the inner surface of the container towards respective support surfaces and where the respective support surfaces and a periphery distance between each neighboring support surface defines a lumen extending in the longitudinal direction.

12. A package according to claim 11, wherein the largest of the periphery distances is smaller than the diameter of the proximal section of the telescopic catheter.

13. A package comprising a container defining a compartment for containing a liquid and at least partly a medical device, said compartment extending in a longitudinal direction from a bottom of the container towards an opening of the container, wherein the outer

circumference of the container decreases in at least a part of the longitudinal direction.