INFUSION PUMP MODULE

• US 20110160668A1
• Filed: 12/24/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Kamada, Teruki, SUGIMOTO, Yasunori, Tomoyama, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US12/978,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20110160668A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14586 pressurised by means of a flexible diaphragm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16886 for measuring fluid flow rate, i.e. flowmeters

Abstract

An infusion pump module configured to transfer liquid includes a liquid inlet part including an inlet for the liquid; a liquid outlet part including an outlet for the liquid; a pump part including a piezoelectric element; and a flow sensor part configured to measure the flow rate of the liquid flowing through the infusion pump module, wherein the liquid inlet part, the liquid outlet part, the pump part, and the flow sensor part are connected to allow the liquid flowing in through the liquid inlet part to flow out through the liquid outlet part, and the liquid inlet part, the liquid outlet part, the pump part, and the flow sensor part are connected to form a single channel.

Claims

1. An infusion pump module configured to transfer a liquid, comprising:

a liquid inlet part including an inlet for the liquid;

a liquid outlet part including an outlet for the liquid;

a pump part including a piezoelectric element; and

a flow sensor part configured to measure a flow rate of the liquid flowing through the infusion pump module,

wherein the liquid inlet part, the liquid outlet part, the pump part, and the flow sensor part are connected to allow the liquid flowing in through the liquid inlet part to flow out through the liquid outlet part, and

the liquid inlet part, the liquid outlet part, the pump part, and the flow sensor part are connected to form a single channel.

2. The infusion pump module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pump part and the flow sensor part are disposed to overlap each other in a longitudinal direction of the infusion pump module.

3. The infusion pump module as claimed in claim 2, wherein the pump part and the flow sensor part are parallel to each other in the longitudinal direction of the infusion pump module.

4. The infusion pump module as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

a connecting channel part configured to connect the pump part and the flow sensor part,

wherein at connections of the liquid inlet part, the liquid outlet part, the pump part, the flow sensor part, and the connecting channel part, connected states are maintained with forces in assembling directions of the infusion pump module.

5. The infusion pump module as claimed in claim 4, wherein the connection of the pump part and the connecting channel part and the connection of the flow sensor part and the connecting channel part are coaxially positioned in the assembling directions.

6. The infusion pump module as claimed in claim 5, wherein O-rings are used at the connections of the liquid inlet part, the liquid outlet part, the pump part, the flow sensor part, and the connecting channel part.

7. The infusion pump module as claimed in claim 4, wherein the connecting channel part comprises a flexible gasket interposed between the pump part and the flow sensor part.