Continuous liquid infusion device

• US 7,041,081 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2003
• Issued: 05/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Orchis Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Orchis Company Limited
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hiroshi, Minezaki, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): KENNEDY, SHARON E
• Application Number:
  US10/726,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20040082912A1
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• Field of Search: 604/151, 604/143, 604/146, 604/218, 604/220, 604/227, 604/235, 222/336
• US Class Current: 604/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14513 with secondary fluid driving or regulating the infusion
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1408 in parallel, e.g. manifolds, sequencing valves access sites A61M39/02; tube connectors A61M39/10
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14526 the piston being actuated by fluid pressure

Abstract

The invention relates to a continuous liquid infusion device which can be easily prepared for operation with small force, and can infuse liquid at constant infusion rate and amount over a long time. It comprises a liquid syringe section and a driving pump section mounted on the liquid syringe section, wherein sliding the pressing arm of the driving pump section upward leads to axially slides the piston in the negative pressure chamber to produce a negative pressure therein; and using returning force of the piston under the negative pressure, the liquid pushout plunger barrel is biased toward the upper edge of a pressing member through a locking member engaged with the piston so as to push out liquid in the liquid syringe from the liquid infusion port. Further, only the liquid syringe is disposable while the vacuum pump barrel on the driving side is good for repeated use (reusable).

Claims

1. A continuous liquid infusion device, comprising:

a first structure having a vacuum pump barrel which has an open/close valve at its front end and an open rear end, a piston fitted into the vacuum pump barrel air-tightly, a stopper capable of locking the piston at the rear end of the vacuum pump barrel against atmospheric pressure, and a pusher movable in the same direction as that of the piston outside the vacuum pump barrel; and

a second structure having a liquid syringe which has a liquid port at its front end and an open rear end, and a piston fitted into the liquid syringe liquid-tightly, wherein

said first structure and said second structure are removably connected, and

said first structure and said second structure are connectable in a state in which the front end of the vacuum pump barrel of said first structure extends further forward than the front end of the liquid syringe.

2. The continuous liquid infusion device according to claim 1, wherein

the first structure has dual pushers and the second structure has dual liquid syringes.

3. The continuous liquid infusion device according to claim 1, wherein the first structure has dual pushers and the second structure has dual liquid syringes.

4. The continuous liquid infusion device according to claim 2, wherein

the dual liquid syringes are disposable and replaceable and are positioned so that openings of the syringes are substantially aligned, and

the dual pushers have substantially the same length.

5. The continuous liquid infusion device of claim 1, wherein a vacuum is generated manually in the vacuum pump barrel, whereby atmospheric pressure drives the piston inside the vacuum pump barrel.

6. The continuous liquid infusion device of claim 2, wherein the dual pushers move substantially in the same direction as the piston of the vacuum pump, and the liquid syringes send liquid outside of the device.

7. The continuous liquid infusion device of claim 4, wherein the dual pushers move substantially in the same direction as the piston of the vacuum pump, and the liquid syringes send liquid outside of the device.

8. A continuous liquid infusion device for the transfusion of drug or chemical solution, such as anesthesia compounds and analgesic preparation, into patients'"'"' bodies, comprising:

a first structure having a vacuum pump barrel which has an open/close valve at its front end and an open rear end, a piston fitted into the vacuum pump barrel air-tightly, a stopper capable of locking the piston at the rear end of the vacuum pump barrel against atmospheric pressure, and a pusher movable in the same direction as that of the piston outside the vacuum pump barrel; and

a second structure having a liquid syringe, having the drug or chemical solution pre-stored therein, which has a liquid port at its front end and an open rear end, and a piston fitted into the liquid syringe liquid-tightly, wherein

said first structure and said second structure are removably connected, and

a vacuum is generated manually in the vacuum pump barrel, whereby atmospheric pressure drives the piston inside the vacuum pump barrel.