BREATH CONDENSATE COLLECTOR

• US 20160270693A1
• Filed: 06/01/2016
• Published: 09/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Exhalation Technology Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Exhalation Technology Ltd.
• Inventors: Bulbrook, George Lee
• Granted Patent: US 9,968,281 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/40 Animals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/097 Devices for facilitating collection of breath or for directing breath into or through measuring devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6803 Head-worn items, e.g. helmets, masks, headphones or goggles

Abstract

A breath condensate collector (10) comprising a chamber having a breath inlet port (14) and an outlet port (16); a sample collector, adapted to receive breath from the chamber outlet and having air exhaust means; cooling means (112) to promote in use condensation of vapour from breath entering the sample collector and where collector comprises a partially lidded dish (110).

Claims

1. A breath condensate collector comprising:

a chamber having a breath inlet port and an outlet port;

a sample collector comprising a partially lidded dish, adapted to receive breath from the chamber outlet and having air exhaust means;

cooling means, in operable communication with said partially lidded dish, to promote, in use, condensation of vapour from breath entering the sample collector.

2. A breath condensate collector according to claim 1, wherein the chamber is cylindrical.

3. A breath condensate collector according to claim 1, where at least a part of the chamber is tapered

4. A breath condensate collector according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of the inner surface of the chamber comprises a hydrophobic material.

5. A breath condensate collector according to claim 1, wherein at least part of the inner surface of the sample collector comprises a hydrophobic material.

6. A breath condensate collector according to claim 1, wherein the cooling means comprises a Peltier device.

7. A breath condensate collector according to claim 1 further comprising a wand.

8. A breath condensate collector according to claim 7 wherein the wand is tapered.

9. A breath condensate collector according to claim 7 wherein the wand is resiliently deformable.

10. A breath condensate collector according to claim 7 wherein the surface of the wand is hydrophobic.

12. A breath condensate collector according to claim 1, in which said sample collector is spaced apart from the outlet port of said chamber, and said outlet port is aligned with the aperture formed by the partial lid.

11. (canceled)