Heatable respiratory hose

• US 5,357,948 A
• Filed: 01/06/1993
• Issued: 10/25/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Heinz Eilentropp
• Original Assignee: Heinz Eilentropp
• Inventors: Eilentropp, Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): Burr, Edgar S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): RACITI, ERIC
• Application Number:
  US08/001,314
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: 128/204.17, 128/203.12, 128/203.17, 128/203.26, 128/203.27, 128/911
• US Class Current: 128/204.17
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/08 Bellows; Connecting tubes having means for taking samples G01N1/22; Water traps; Patient circuits
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/1075 by influencing the temperature A61M16/1045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/1095 in the connecting tubes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/911 Unilimb inhalation-exhalation breathing tubes

Abstract

A respiratory or respiration hose is made of a transparent or translucent material, e.g. a silicon caoutchouc, the hose has a helical, preferably hollow ridge or bar on its outer surface bonded thereto by a silicon based adhesive; heating conductors means are arranged on a foot portion of the ridge, on one or both sides of the foot portion of the ridge and are adhesively bonded to the hose; a return conductor may run through the hollow ridge interior; heating current is fed to the heating conductor which is provided in parallel or serial connection.

Claims

1. Heatable respiratory or respiration hose made of a transparent or translucent material, the hose having a tubular portion with an outer surface, and a helical ridge or bar on said outer surface of the tubular portion, the ridge or bar having a foot portion with which the ridge or bar emerges radially outwardly from the surface;

the improvement comprising;

heating conductor means exterior of said hose and said ridge or bar and arranged on and along said foot portion of the ridge and in intimate contact with the surface of the hose said conductor means being specifically arranged on at least one side of the foot portion and attached to the ridge or bar itself and on the surface of the hose so that the conductor means have a consistent spacing from and in relation to the hose and said surface on account of said intimate contact; and

means for electrically connecting the conductor means so as to permit heating current to be fed to the heating conductor.

2. A hose as in claim 1, the heating conductor means being affixed to the hose by means of a bonding agent.

3. A hose as in claim 2, the bonding agent having a silicon base.

4. A hose as in claim 3, the hose being made of a silicon caoutchouc.

5. A hose as in claim 1, the hose being made of a silicon caoutchouc.

6. A hose as in claim 1, the heating conductor means being electrically insulated by means of an insulation.

7. A hose as in claim 6, the insulation being a fiuoropolymer.

8. A hose as in claim 1, for a dual electrical connection at one end of the hose, there being an electrical return path conductor in the ridge.

9. A hose as in claim 1, the hose being a principal hose, the ridge being a separate hose bonded to the principal hose.

10. A hose as in claim 9, for a dual electrical connection at one end of the hose, there being a return conductor held in the ridge hose without being affixed thereto.

11. A hose as in claim 1, the ridge defining a helix having a pitch such that the width of the ridge is about equal to a spacing between loops of the ridge of the helix.

12. Hose as in claim 1, there being connection fittings on both ends of the hose, the means for connecting including cable connection means at one of the ends.