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Blood filter

  • US 4,572,724 A
  • Filed: 04/12/1984
  • Issued: 02/25/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/12/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for separating gas from blood before the blood passes through a filter, said apparatus comprising a housing defining a cylindrical chamber having top and bottom walls and a cylindrical side wall, said bottom wall having an annular opening extending generally around the periphery of said chamber and adapted to communicate with a filter, an annular baffle disposed in said chamber concentrically with said side wall and depending from said top wall to define an annular channel overlying said opening, an inlet communicating with said channel through said side wall and disposed to direct blood into the channel tangentially of the side wall whereby the blood flows in a generally circular path in the channel and generally downwardly out of said chamber through said opening, said circular flow producing a centrifugal action which causes the blood to flow at the outer periphery of said channel while gas entrained in the blood separates and moves inwardly, said baffle having an opening at a point where the baffle has defined a substantial part of a circle beginning near said inlet to permit the gas to enter the center portion of the chamber inside the baffle only after the blood has travelled a substantially full circle, at least one vent opening in the center portion of said top wall to permit gas in the center portion of said chamber to escape from the housing, and a hydrophobic membrane in said top wall covering said vent opening and extending over a substantial part of said center portion of said chamber to permit the automatic flow of gas but not blood out through said vent opening.

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