APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT COMPRISING A MONITOR UNIT

• US 20180050145A1
• Filed: 08/16/2017
• Published: 02/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: SCHFER, OLIVER, Schleicher, Christian
• Application Number:
  US15/678,319
• Publication Number:
  US 20180050145A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/14 Dialysis systems; Artificial kidneys; Blood oxygenators semi-permeable membranes characterised by the material, manufacturing processes therefor B01D71/00; Reciprocating systems for treatment of body fluids, e.g. single needle systems for hemofiltration or pheresis
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/1621 Constructional aspects thereof semi-permeable membranes for separation processes characterised by their properties B01D69/00; semi permeable membranes characterised by their material B01D71/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/34 Filtering material out of the blood by passing it through a membrane, i.e. hemofiltration or diafiltration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/3653 Interfaces between patient blood circulation and extra-corporal blood circuit
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3331 Pressure; Flow
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2207/123 Optical louvre elements, e.g. for directional light blocking

Abstract

An apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment includes a body and a monitor unit fixed in the tilt direction which includes a display unit. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment may be configured as a dialysis machine including a housing for accommodating operational components for the extracorporeal blood treatment. The monitor unit includes a display content representation influencing device.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. An apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment comprising:

a housing for accommodating operational components for the extracorporeal blood treatment;

a body coupled to the housing; and

a monitor unit including a display unit and a display content representation influencing device, the monitor unit adapted to be non-tiltable relative to the body, wherein the display content representation influencing device is arranged to influence the visibility of information presented on the display unit.

11. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 10, wherein the display content representation influencing device comprises an antireflection coating disposed on at least a portion of a display surface of the display unit.

12. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 11, wherein the antireflection coating is a film or coating disposed on the at least a portion of the display surface, integrated into the display surface, or at least one of a film, a disk, a contrast changing means or a LED array arranged in front of the display surface of the display unit.

13. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 10, wherein the display content representation influencing device comprises a silvering means disposed on a display surface of the display unit which is arranged to silver at least a portion of the display surface.

14. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment to claim 13, wherein the display content representation influencing device is a light direction changing filter, polarizing means or contrast changing means integrated in the display unit in front of or behind an imaging panel which is arranged to render represented display content readable only from a predetermined position or viewing direction of a user.

15. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 10, wherein

the display unit is arranged to simultaneously display at least two different display contents;

and

the display content representation influencing device is arranged to influence the visibility of the at least two display contents simultaneously represented on the display unit so that from at least one of a first viewing direction or a first viewing distance of a first user to the first display unit only one of the at least two display contents is visible and from at least one of a second viewing direction or a second distance of a second user to the display unit only another one of the at least two display contents is visible.

16. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 10, wherein the display unit is configured as a dual-view display unit.

17. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 10, wherein the display unit is configured as a split-screen display unit.

18. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 10, wherein the display content representation changing device is a filter adapted to be electronically controlled for changing its light transmission properties.

19. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 18, wherein the filter is a configures as a parallax barrier.

20. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 10, wherein the monitor unit is adapted to be non-orientable relative to the body.

21. The apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment according to claim 10, wherein the extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus is a dialysis machine.