Infusion pump tube

• US 5,458,578 A
• Filed: 12/02/1991
• Issued: 10/17/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: I-Flow Corporation (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Original Assignee: I-Flow Corporation (Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
• Inventors: Sebesta, Kurt J., Rake, Kenneth W.
• Primary Examiner(s): PREBILIC, PAUL B
• Application Number:
  US07/801,805
• Time in Patent Office: 1,415 Days
• Field of Search: 604/153, 604/154, 604/283, 604/905, 417/474, 417/475, 417/478, 285/921, 285/239, 285/240
• US Class Current: 604/154
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16827 controlling delivery of multiple fluids, e.g. sequencing, mixing or via separate flow-paths infusion of multiple fluids without using a controller A61M5/1407
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 604/905 Aseptic connectors or couplings, e.g. frangible, piercable

Abstract

A fluid administration set with an infusion pump tube having indentations near its ends within its inner cylindrical wall. The indentations are preferably V-shaped annular grooves. Each groove engages an annular barb on a hollow fitting. The hollow fittings have base members for engaging retaining walls in the pump set apart from one another at a precise predetermined distance. The outer circumference of the infusion pump tube is enlarged in the area of the indentation. Tabs are provided on the hollow fitting assembly for securing the administration set against the infusion pump. The set may include a pressure dome for occlusion sensing on one of the hollow fitting assemblies.

Claims

1. An infusion pump tube set comprising:

an elongated hollow pump tube having an inner wall with an indentation on said inner wall near each of two ends of said tube;

a first hollow fitting assembly including two necks extending in opposite directions from a base member, one of said necks having a retaining member extending radially therefrom, said retaining member engaging the indentation in one of the ends of said hollow pump tube;

a second hollow fitting assembly having a neck extending from a base member, the neck having a retaining member extending radially therefrom, said retaining member engaging the indentation in the other of the ends of said hollow pump tube; and

a pressure dome attached to the base member of said second hollow fitting opposite from the neck of said second hollow fitting assembly.

2. The infusion pump tube set of claim 1 further comprising tabs extending out from each of said base members in the direction of said hollow pump tube, all of said tabs being oriented in a plane parallel to said hollow pump tube.

3. The infusion pump tube set of claim 1 wherein the indentation in each of the ends of said hollow pump tube comprises a V-shaped annular groove.

4. The infusion pump tube set of claim 3 wherein the inner wall of said pump tube which extends to the end of said pump tube forms an angle with said V-shaped groove sufficiently small to maintain said pump tube in position on said retaining member.

5. The infusion pump tube set of claim 3 wherein each of said retaining members comprises an annular barb around the neck from which said each retaining member extends.

6. The infusion pump tube set of claim 1 wherein said hollow pump tube is formed by molding.

7. The infusion pump tube set of claim 1 wherein said hollow pump tube has an enlarged outer circumference near its ends about the indentations.