Disposable spirometer with plastic injection moulded turbine

• US 7,618,235 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2004
• Issued: 11/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MIR S.r.l.
• Original Assignee: MIR S.r.l.
• Inventors: Sacco, Paolo Boschetti
• Primary Examiner(s): EDGAR, RICHARD A
• Application Number:
  US10/573,899
• Publication Number:
  US 20070059165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,099 Days
• Field of Search: 600/539, 738/618.9, 738/613.3, 738/618.5, 416/61, 415/912, 415/9, 415/193, 415/915
• US Class Current: 415/121.3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/09 using an element rotated by the flow toys actuated by air current A63H33/40
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 415/915 Pump or portion thereof by casting or molding

Abstract

A small dimension throwaway turbine device for checking the breathing flux, to be used in spirometric instruments, allowing an extreme simplification in project and realization, and comprises a turbo-turbine (4) with an inlet deflector (1) and an outlet deflector (3), and a single-piece mobile equipment comprising a blade (2) and a rotation axis (5), realized out of one single raw material.

Claims

1. A small dimension throwaway turbine device for the checking of breathing flux, characterized in only three components realized in one single printing and injection production phase out of plastic material, making use of always the same raw material, comprising:

a mono-block mobile equipment (2), configured to rotate about a rotation axis (5), formed exclusively of a plastic material; and

a turbo-turbine (4), with an inlet deflector (1) and an outlet deflector (3), the inlet deflector (1) and the outlet deflector (3) formed exclusively of the plastic material,

wherein the mobile equipment consists of one single piece of the plastic material formed as a blade (2), a first extension, and a second extension, the first and second extensions extending from opposite edges of the blade along the rotation axis (5).

2. The throwaway device according to claim 1,

wherein, opposite-facing ends of the first and second extensions each have a truncated-cone structure beveled with a 45°

angle, and

wherein the inlet deflector (1) has a first cavity directly in said inlet deflector, the outlet deflector (3) has a second cavity directly in said outlet deflector, and each of the first cavity and the second cavity are configured to house one of the first extension and the second extension.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the rotation axis extends through a center of the inlet deflector (1) and the outlet deflector (3).

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein said turbine is realized in one single production phase, making use of one single raw material.

5. The device according to claim 1,

wherein each of the inlet deflector (1) and the outlet deflector (3) are circular, and

wherein the rotation axis extends through a center of the inlet deflector (1) and the outlet deflector (3).

6. A turbine device for the checking of breathing flux, comprising:

a first deflector (1);

a second deflector (3); and

a mono-block mobile equipment sandwiched between the first deflector (1) and the second deflector (3), the mono-block mobile equipment consisting of a blade, a first extension extending from a first edge of the blade, and a second extension extending form an opposite second edge of the blade,

wherein the first deflector (1), the second deflector (3), and the mono-block mobile equipment are made of a same plastic material and made only of the same plastic material.