Pneumatic controlled infusion device

• US 5,749,854 A
• Filed: 06/11/1996
• Issued: 05/12/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shen, Chung-Shan
• Original Assignee: Shen, Chung-Shan
• Inventors: Shen, Chung-Shan
• Primary Examiner(s): Rimell, Sam
• Assistant Examiner(s): Racunas, Robert V.
• Application Number:
  US08/661,468
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 604/9, 604/118, 604/121, 604/131, 604/132, 604/133, 604/140, 604/141, 604/142, 604/143, 604/146, 604/147, 604/247
• US Class Current: 604/131
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1486 the bags being substantially completely surrounded by fluid

Abstract

A pneumatic controlled infusion bag comprises a double-layer infusion bag, a space defined between the layers for receiving pneumatic pressure therein to gradually squeeze the medicament inside the bag delivering into the vessel of a patient. A pneumatic fluid control assembly controllably supplies the pneumatic pressure into the infusion bag. The assembly comprises an air inlet connected to a pneumatic source, an outlet connected to the bag via a hose, a first and a second piston disposed inside the assembly for respectively controlling the open/close and the proper amount of the pneumatic pressure. A pressure release valve inside the infusion bag can automatically release the excessive pneumatic pressure out of the bag. This disclosure overcomes the resistance of the blood pressure and needs no longer to form a potential difference between the infusion bag and the human body.

Claims

1. A pneumatic controlled infusion device comprising:

an infusion bag, said bag having an internal wall for containing a predetermined amount of medicament therein and an external wall connected together with the internal wall at their corresponding upper and lower portions, a receiving space being defined between said internal and external walls for receiving pneumatic pressure therein, a tubular air outlet at a bottom communicating with the medicament including a pierceable blockage therein, a tubular air inlet at a bottom symmetrical to said outlet and communicating to said receiving space and insertable by an external hose therein and a hollow cylinder chamber having a central recess communicating with said receiving space and an outward opening formed at a bottom between said air inlet and outlet, said cylinder chamber being provided to secure a pressure release valve therein which is sealed by a sealing ring;

a pneumatic fluid control assembly connected with said infusion bag via said tubular air inlet by a hose, said control assembly comprising a spherical body, a transverse circular hole radially extended through the body thereof and separated by a first vertical partition at a middle of said hole which defines a first and a second chamber by said partition, an aperture formed at a center of said partition for communicating said chambers, each of said chambers having a tubular extension projected outward from said body and each of said extensions having a threaded outer periphery at a free end thereof, a tubular air inlet projected upward from said body, said air inlet having a threaded inner periphery, a stem projected upward from a center therein and communicated to said first chamber via a first air passage, a tubular outlet projected downward from a bottom of said body and communicated to said second chamber via a second air passage therebetween, said tubular outlet having a corrugated outer periphery engageable with an other end of said hose, a first piston slidingly disposed into said first chamber and secured by a first cap onto the free end of said extension for operating said pneumatic fluid control assembly, a second piston slidingly disposed into said second chamber and secured by a second cap onto the free end of said second extension for adjusting the amount of pneumatic fluid passing through the aperture of said partition, said first and second caps each having a threaded inner periphery and a threaded central bore at a bottom thereof, and a pneumatic source engaged into said tubular inlet of said body and opened by said stem for supplying pneumatic fluid into said body.

2. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said internal wall of said infusion bag is made from flexible material.

3. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said external wall of said infusion bag is made from tensile material.

4. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said pressure releasing valve comprises a cylinder housing having an air inlet at a center of an inward wall thereof which is made in registry with the air outlet of said hollow cylinder chamber and a threaded hole at a center of an outward wall adjacent a pair of recesses thereabout, a taper headed plunger axially engaged into said air inlet and biased by a coil spring and a cap means and a threaded pin screwed into said housing via said threaded hole and adjustably stopped against said cap means.

5. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said first piston comprises a hollow cylinder member having an opened end toward said partition of said spherical body, an annular groove around an outer periphery and an air inlet formed inside said groove engageable with said first air passage, a first coil spring axially inserted into said opened end and biased between said first hollow cylinder member and said partition and a first adjustable bolt screwed into said first chamber via the threaded hole of said first cap and adjustably stopped against an outward end of said first hollow cylinder member thereon.

6. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said second piston comprises a hollow cylinder member having two opened ends, a second vertical partition formed inside said cylinder member at a middle portion thereof, a cone projected inward from an inward surface of said partition with a conical point thereof exceeded an inward end of said cylinder member and stopped into the aperture of said first vertical partition and an annular groove including an air outlet therein formed around an outer periphery abutting a foot of said cone, a second coil spring inserted into an outward end of said cylinder member and biased between said cylinder member and a sleeve and secured by a second cap at a free end of the extension of said second chamber, which has a threaded inner periphery and a threaded central hole and a second adjustable bolt axially screwed into said second chamber via said threaded central hole and adjustably stopped against an outward surface of said sleeve.

7. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said pneumatic source comprises a reinforced housing, a third partition formed perpendicular to the axis and in the proximity of an opening thereof, a plurality of recesses in said partition, a ball stopper stopped the opening and biased by a coil spring between said stopper and said partition.