Valve device

• US 5,613,663 A
• Filed: 09/27/1995
• Issued: 03/25/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Schmidt, Klaus J., Fuchs, Juergen, Wiegel, Heinz
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, KEVIN L
• Application Number:
  US08/534,444
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 251/149.2, 251/149.1, 251/298, 251/301, 604/167, 604/256, 604/264, 604/905, 604/280, 604/283
• US Class Current: 251/149.2
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2039/0666 Flap-valve
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/0693 including means for seal penetration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/26 Valves closing automatically on disconnecting the line and opening on reconnection thereof check valves A61M39/24

Abstract

In a valve device in a connection piece, it is provided that the valve body is configured as a valve flap (20) with a closed surface, which valve flap is mounted in the connection piece via an elastic radial tongue (21) and rests against an annular supporting surface (26) in the closed position, and that the sliding member pivots the valve flap (20) in opening direction about the radial tongue (21) by pressure against its closed surface.

Claims

1. A valve device in a connection piece comprising an open ended flow channel having a valve body arranged therein which is adapted to be brought into an opened position by means of an axially displaceable sliding member, the valve body being configured as a valve flap having a closed surface and being mounted in the connection piece via an elastic radial tongue and resting against an annular supporting surface in a closed position, and the sliding member pivots the valve flap in opening direction about the radial tongue by pressure against the closed surface thereof, the supporting surface being integrally formed with a centrally perforated sealing membrane mounted arranged between the valve flap and the connection piece.

2. The valve device according to claim 1, wherein the sliding member is an outer cone of a coupling assembly or syringe.

3. The valve device according to claim 1, wherein the sliding member is configured as a tubular body being arranged displaceably in the flow channel and being secured against dropping out therein.

4. The valve device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing membrane is a disc of elastomer material.

5. The valve device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing membrane comprises a thick-walled outer flange edge received in an inner circumferential groove of the connection piece.

6. The valve device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing membrane comprises a torus surrounding the central perforation at least on that side facing the valve flap.

7. The valve device according to claim 3, wherein the tubular body is integrally formed with the sealing membrane.

8. The valve device according to claim 3, wherein a radial sealing lip directed inwards within the bore is configured at the rear end of the tubular body.

9. The valve device according to claim 1, wherein the radial tongue connects the valve flap with an outer ring, wherein the tongue, the valve flap, and the outer ring are formed integrally of elastic flat material, and wherein the outer ring is clamped between ring surfaces in the connection piece.

10. Use of the valve device according to claim 1 in combination with a vascular catheter, said valve device having inserted in its flow channel of the connection piece a puncture cannula or mandrin holding the valve flap in opened position without actuating the sliding member.