Device for providing a vacuum for vacuum wound treatment comprising a holding or carrying device

• US 8,845,604 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Paul Hartmann AG (SCHWENK Zement GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Paul Hartmann AG (SCHWENK Zement GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Croizat, Pierre, Eckstein, Axel
• Primary Examiner(s): Deak, Leslie
• Assistant Examiner(s): SASS, SARA A
• Application Number:
  US13/484,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20120310188A1
• Time in Patent Office: 852 Days
• Field of Search: 604/319, 604/174
• US Class Current: 604/319
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/96 Suction control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/984 portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/088 on the body

Abstract

A portable device (2) for providing a vacuum for medical vacuum treatment of wounds on the body of a person or of an animal has a holding or carrying device (10) with two connecting sections (12, 14) on the housing, which are disposed on the housing part (4) for connection to two connecting sections of a holding or carrying strap on the strap, wherein the holding or carrying strap comprises a third strap-side connecting section, which is spaced apart from the opposing ends of the holding or carrying strap and from the first and second strap-side connecting sections disposed there, and arranged between these ends, for connection to one of the connecting sections on the housing and/or to a strap-side connecting section disposed at the end.

Claims

1. A portable device providing a vacuum for medical vacuum treatment of a wound on a body of a person or animal via a suction line leading to the body, the portable device being structured for attachment to an external carrier having a holding frame, such as a bed frame, the device comprising:

a suction pump, which generates a vacuum;

a housing part within which said suction pump is disposed, said housing part having a connection for the suction line to establish vacuum communication between said suction pump and the wound via the suction line, said housing part also having a first housing connecting section and a second housing connecting section; and

a holding or carrying device, said holding or carrying device comprising a carrying strap having a first strap end and a second strap end, said carrying strap also having a first strap connecting section disposed proximate said first strap end and a second strap connecting section disposed proximate said second strap end, wherein said first strap connecting section is disposed, structured and dimensioned for connection to said first housing connecting section and said second strap connecting section is disposed, structured and dimensioned for connection to said second housing connecting section, said carrying strap also having a third strap connecting section, which is spaced apart from and disposed between said first and said second strap ends for connection to one of said first and said second housing connecting sections and/or to one of said first and said second strap connecting sections, said holding or carrying device also having a connecting device for connecting said carrying strap to the external carrier, wherein said connecting device has a loop which is structured to be closed and released on a peripheral side thereof, said connecting device being directly connected to said carrying strap at a portion of said carrying strap extending between and connecting together said first strap connecting section and said third strap connecting section.

2. The portable device of claim 1, wherein a first separation between said first strap connecting section and said third strap connecting section is shorter than a second separation between said third strap connecting section and said second strap connecting section.

3. The portable device of claim 2, wherein said first separation cannot be adjusted.

4. The portable device of claim 2, further comprising adjustment device for adjusting said second separation.

5. The portable device of claim 1, wherein said connecting device comprises a plug and/or snap connection.

6. The portable device of claim 1, wherein said connecting device is connected to said carrying strap in an undetachable fashion.

7. The portable device of claim 1, wherein said connecting device is operated independently of a state of connection of said first and said second strap connecting sections and independently of said first and said second housing connecting sections.

8. The portable device of claim 1, wherein said carrying strap has a supporting strap or carrier handle which is disposed between said first strap connecting section and said third strap connecting section.

9. The portable device of claim 8, wherein said carrying strap further comprises a shoulder support which is disposed between said second strap connecting section and said third strap connecting section.

10. The portable device of claim 1, wherein said first, second and third strap connecting sections are designed as automatically closing hooks.

11. The portable device of claim 1, wherein said first and second housing connecting sections are designed as lugs.