Treatment of physiological liquids of organism

• US 20020125184A1
• Filed: 12/31/2001
• Published: 09/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hans-Dietrich Polaschegg, Ilya Zborovsky, James Brady
• Original Assignee: Hans-Dietrich Polaschegg, Ilya Zborovsky, James Brady
• Inventors: Polaschegg, Hans-Dietrich, Brady, James, Zborovsky, Ilya
• Application Number:
  US10/029,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20020125184A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 210/263
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/3627 Degassing devices; Buffer reservoirs; Drip chambers; Blood filters
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 15/00 Separating processes involving the treatment of liquids with solid sorbents using liquid sorbents B01D11/00; ion exchange processes or materials, sorbent materials in general B01J, e.g. sorbents for chromatography B01J20/281; for investigating or analysing materials G01N30/00; Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2239/0492 on fibres
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2239/0695 Wound layers apparatus incorporating such gas filtering material B01D2275/105
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2313/08 Flow guidance means within the module or the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 39/02 Loose filtering material, e.g. loose fibres
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 39/1623 of synthetic origin
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 39/2065 the material being fibrous
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 61/00 Processes of separation using semi-permeable membranes, e.g. dialysis, osmosis or ultrafiltration; Apparatus, accessories or auxiliary operations specially adapted therefor separation of gases or vapours by diffusion B01D53/22
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 61/18 Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 61/20 Accessories; Auxiliary operations
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 61/28 Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 61/30 Accessories; Auxiliary operation
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/02 Hollow fibre modules
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 47/022 characterised by the construction of the column or container

Abstract

A method of treatment of physiological liquids of organism includes providing a housing with inlet and outlet for physiological liquid so that physiological liquid enters an interior of the housing through the inlet and exits the same through the outlet, arranging a body of treatment material accommodated in the interior of the housing so that the physiological liquid which passes through the housing from the inlet to the outlet is treated by the treatment material, uniformly distributing the physiological liquid by a body of particulate material located upstream the body of treatment material between the inlet and the body of treatment material so as to provide a uniform distribution of the physiological liquid after it enters the housing and before it enters the body of treatment material; and arranging a further body of particulate material located downstream of the body of treatment material between the body of treatment material and the outlet.

Claims

1. A method of treatment of physiological liquids of organism, comprising the steps of providing a housing with inlet means and outlet means for physiological liquids so that physiological liquid enters an interior of said housing through said inlet means and exits the same through said outlet means;

arranging a body composed of treatment material which is formed to provides treatment of a physiological liquids of organism and is accommodated in the interior of said housing so that the physiological liquid which passes through said housing from said inlet means to said outlet means through said body of said treatment material is treated by said treatment material;

uniformly distributing the physiological liquid of organism before it enters said body of said treatment material by a body of particulate material located upstream said body of treatment material between said inlet means and said body of treatment material so as to provide a uniform distribution of the physiological liquid said housing and before said body of treatment material; and

providing a uniform distribution of the physiological liquid of organism by a further body of particulate material located downstream of said body of treatment material between said body of treatment material and said outlet means, so that when the device is turned upside down and said outlet means become said inlet means, said further body of particulate material is located upstream of said body of treatment material between said outlet means which became said inlet means on the one hand and said body of treatment material of the other hand to again provide a uniform distribution of physiological liquid before it enters said body of treatment material.

2. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising using as said treatment material a material selected from the group consisting of hollow fibers, solid fibers, material plates, and a wound structure.

3. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising using as said particulate material a material selected from the group consisting of beads, grains, and short fibers.

4. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising using as said treatment material a material formed so a to perform a process selected from the group consisting of a dialysis, a filtration, an adsorption and an ion exchange.

5. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising using as said particular material a material which is formed so as to provide exclusively the function of uniform distribution of the physiological liquid.

6. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising using as said particulate material a material which in addition to providing a uniform flow distribution of the physiological liquid, provides an additional function.

7. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising using as the particulate material a material which is formed so as to perform treatment of the physiological liquid by adsorption of toxins.

8. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising preventing intermixing of said particular material with said treatment material.

9. A method as defined in claim 8, wherein said intermixing preventing includes using a mesh means having an opening size which is smaller than a size of particles of said particulate material.

10. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising using as said body of particulate material a material which is formed so as to release at least one of medications into the physiological liquid of organism selected from the group consisting of hormones, vitamins, and electrolytes.

11. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising separating said body of treatment material from said further particulate material.

12. A method as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising using as said bodies of particulate material which are identical and symmetrical relative to said body of treatment material.