Cassette-type peristaltique pump fitted with an undeceitful assembly

• US 5,518,378 A
• Filed: 02/09/1995
• Issued: 05/21/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Debiotech S.A.
• Original Assignee: Debiotec SA
• Inventors: Neftel, Frederic, Bouvier, Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): Bertsch, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Ted
• Application Number:
  US08/325,261
• Time in Patent Office: 467 Days
• Field of Search: 417/477.1, 417/477.2, 417/360
• US Class Current: 417/477.2
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/12 having peristaltic action

Abstract

A peristaltic pump comprising a motor body (4), a cassette (1) with a casing (31) wherein are provided rotary rollers driven by a driving shaft (10) of the motor body (4) and which compress a deformable tube (25). The cassette further includes an error-preventing assembly having a platen (2) capable of taking either an active position where the driving shaft (10) actuates the rotary rollers (15) or a rest position where the rollers are fixed, and at east one finger (23) arranged on the lower part (14) of the cassette (1), the finger being capable of passing the platen (2) from the rest position to the active position.

Claims

1. A peristaltic pump comprising a pump motor body having a driving shaft;

a cassette including a deformable tube, a casing, and rotary rollers in the casing driven by said driving shaft of said pump motor body and compressing said tube; and

an error-preventing assembly including a platen having an active position where the driving shaft of the motor body actuates the rotary rollers of the cassette and a rest position where the rotary rollers are fixed, and at least one finger arranged on the lower part of the cassette, the at least one finger being capable of passing the platen from the rest position to the active position.

2. The peristaltic pump according to claim 1, wherein said pump motor body has at least one groove;

the platen comprises at least one slide slidably mounted thereon and capable of lateral motion relative to an upper plane surface of said platen;

penetration of said at least one slide into said at least one groove causes said platen to be locked in the rest position, and engagement of said at least one finger with said at least one slide actuates the slide to move the slide out of said at least one groove and permit said platen to move from the rest position to the active position.

3. The peristaltic pump according to claim 2, further comprising an elastic element biasing each at least one slide into engagement with said at least one groove.

4. The peristaltic pump according to claim 2, wherein said at least one finger has a slant surface which engages said at least one slide to move the slide out of said at least one groove.

5. The peristaltic pump according to claim 2, wherein each said at least one slide has a window designed to receive said at least one finger.

6. The peristaltic pump according to claim 2, wherein said platen further comprises a lower surface and cylindrical side portions extending from said upper plane surface, said upper plane surface having a central opening for passage of said motor shaft and at least one window provided for passage of said at least one finger of said cassette, said cylindrical side portions having at least one notch provided for passage of said at least one slide, and said lower surface having rails in which said at least one slide moves.

7. The peristaltic pump according to claim 5 or claim 6, wherein the position of the window determines the type of cassette capable of passing the platen from one position to the other.

8. The peristaltic pump according to claim 1, wherein said cassette further comprises a tube guide, said tube guide including a pair of cylindrical connectors joined together, one of said cylindrical connectors acting as an intake joining piece, the other of said cylindrical connectors acting as an exhaust joining piece, each cylindrical connector having a male section penetrating one end of said deformable tube and a section extending in an opposite direction provided for connecting to an external tube;

and bosses internally of said cassette engaging said ends of said deformable tube and said male sections of both connectors.