Device for fixing a tube for peristaltic cassette

• US 8,062,009 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2005
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SMC-Swiss Medical Care S.A.
• Original Assignee: SMC-Swiss Medical Care S.A.
• Inventors: Cueni, Reto
• Primary Examiner(s): Freay; Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S
• Application Number:
  US11/662,333
• Publication Number:
  US 20080069711A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,285 Days
• Field of Search: 4174771-47714, 417/474
• US Class Current: 417/477.9
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/0072 of tubular flexible members

Abstract

The invention concerns a peristaltic cassette casing comprising a tube housing forming an arc, characterized in that it comprises tube fixing means arranged along said housing so as to prevent the longitudinal displacement of a tube arranged in said housing.

Claims

1. A peristaltic cassette case for use with a peristaltic tube having two open ends and having closed side portions between the two open ends, wherein the case comprises:

a tube housing forming an arc of a circle, and

a plurality of tube fixing elements arranged along said tube housing to prevent longitudinal movement of the peristaltic tube to be arranged in said housing,

said tube housing having an interior and an exterior,

said tube fixing elements being able to withstand a pressure of more than 2 bar, and

each of said tube fixing elements comprises a cavity capable of holding a quantity of adhesive,

wherein each cavity forms a passage connecting the interior and exterior of the tube housing, and

wherein each cavity is directed toward a location in the tube housing

where a closed side portion of a peristaltic tube to be arranged will reside.

2. A case according to claim 1 comprising two case halves, wherein at least part of an area of contact of the two case halves is around said housing, said tube fixing elements being arranged so as to also have the effect of securing together the two case halves.

3. A case according to claim 2 comprising an actual peristaltic tube with a profile having a longitudinal section, which may or may not be cut, such that the tube can be gripped and so fixed between the two case halves of the cassette.

4. A peristaltic cassette comprising:

a peristaltic case having an exterior and an interior,

an arched peristaltic tube race in the interior of the peristaltic case,

a plurality of openings in the peristaltic case,

each of said plurality of openings extends radially outward from the arched peristaltic tube race, and each of said plurality of openings extends from the interior to the exterior of the peristaltic case,

each of said plurality of openings is specifically designed to receive adhesive to adhesively bond closed side portions of a peristaltic tube to be arranged in the arched peristaltic tube race, and

each of said plurality of openings is directed toward the interior of the peristaltic case where the closed side portions of the peristaltic tube to be arranged in the arched peristaltic tube race will reside.