Medical Implement Cleaning Device

• US 20140261581A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company (Solventum Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Ivera Medical Corporation (3M Company)
• Inventors: Rogers, Bobby E.
• Granted Patent: US 9,907,617 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 134/166.R
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3008 having multiple compartments
• 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: A61B 90/70 Cleaning devices specially adapted for surgical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/00 Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes capsules or the like for oral use A61J3/07; specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments A61B50/30; containers for radioactive substances G21F5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/16 using chemical substances
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/186 Peroxide solutions
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/23 Solid substances, e.g. granules, powders, blocks, tablets
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/24 Medical instruments, e.g. endoscopes, catheters, sharps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/11 with means for preventing cross-contamination when used for multiple patients
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/16 having provision for disinfection or sterilisation A61M39/143 takes precedence; methods or apparatus for disinfection or sterilisation A61L2/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/162 with antiseptic agent incorporated within the connector
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/20 Closure caps or plugs for connectors or open ends of tubes
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 1/00 Cleaning by methods involving the use of tools cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto B08B9/00

Abstract

A cleaning device for a medical implement is disclosed. The cleaning device includes a housing, a cleaning agent within the housing, and a movable septum in the housing that maintains the cleaning agent within the housing until receipt by the housing of the site of the medical implement. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.

Claims

1. A cleaning device for a site of a medical implement, the cleaning device comprising:

a housing;

a cleaning agent within the housing; and

a movable septum in the housing that maintains the cleaning agent within the housing until receipt by the housing of the site of the medical implement.

2. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the movable septum includes a flexible flange that allows passage of the cleaning agent from the housing to the site of the medical implement.

3. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a removable seal coupled with the housing.

4. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 2, wherein the flexible flange is disposed along an outer edge of the movable septum and configured to create an interference fit between the movable septum and the housing.

5. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 1, further comprising one or more holes disposed in the movable septum that allow passage of the cleaning agent from the housing to the site of the medical implement through the one or more holes when the movable septum is pushed into the housing by the medical implement.

6. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 5, wherein the one or more holes have one or more dimensions that allow a surface tension of the cleaning agent to stay below the movable septum when the cleaning agent is in a low pressure state.

7. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 1, further comprising one or more raised structures disposed along a top surface of the movable septum that maintain a space between a surface of the medical implement and the top surface of the movable septum.

8. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 7, wherein the one or more raised structures are frustoconical structures.

9. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 1, further comprising one or more protrusions extending upward from a distal inner surface of the housing opposite an opening of the housing, the one or more protrusions configured to stop the movable septum when the movable septum is pushed into the housing.

10. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the housing further comprises a male luer that is unitary with the housing and extends upward from a distal inner surface of the housing opposite an opening of the housing and through an opening of the movable septum.

11. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 10, wherein the movable septum includes a flexible flange disposed along an inner edge of the opening of the movable septum.

12. A cleaning device comprising:

a housing having an opening bounded by one or more side walls connected to a bottom surface; and

a septum disposed within the housing and proximate to the opening, the septum adapted to move in a direction from the opening towards the bottom surface of the housing upon contact by a medical implement received in the opening.

13. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 12, further comprising a cleaning agent maintained in an initial position between the septum and the bottom surface of the housing.

14. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 13, wherein the movable septum includes a flexible flange that allows passage of the cleaning agent from the initial position to a site of the medical implement.

15. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 14, wherein the flexible flange is disposed along an outer edge of the septum and configured to create an interference fit between the septum and the housing.

16. The cleaning device in accordance with claim 13, further comprising one or more holes disposed in the septum that allow passage of the cleaning agent from the housing to a site of the medical implement through the one or more holes when the septum is pushed into the housing by the medical implement.