Fluid pressure sensing chamber

• US 8,202,243 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2005
• Issued: 06/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcon Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Novartis Ag
• Inventors: Morgan, Michael D.
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG
• Application Number:
  US11/260,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20070098578A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,427 Days
• Field of Search: 604/19, 604/27, 604/35, 604/43, 604/65, 604/67, 604/131, 604/141, 604/153, 417/477.2, 417/63, 417/476, 417/477.5, 417/477.8
• US Class Current: 604/67
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/00736 Instruments for removal of intra-ocular material or intra-ocular injection, e.g. cataract instruments A61F9/008 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/72 Cassettes forming partially or totally the fluid circuit
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/732 Visual indicating means for vacuum pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/77 Suction-irrigation systems aspiration tips supplying fluids A61M1/85; specific for negative pressure wound therapy A61M1/92; combined with tracheal tubes A61M16/0463
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/80 Suction pumps A61M1/64, A61M1/71, A61M60/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/12 with interchangeable cassettes forming partially or totally the fluid circuit
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3331 Pressure; Flow
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0201 Cassettes therefor

Abstract

A pressure sensing chamber having a tubing extension extending through the chamber. The tubing contains a plurality of ports so as to allow the purging of air from the chamber, but the ports are sized so that bubbles entering the tubing cannot easily flow into the chamber.

Claims

1. A cassette, comprising:

a) a body;

b) a pressure sensing chamber formed in the body; and

c) a tubing extension extending through the pressure sensing chamber and having an inner diameter, the tubing extension having at least one hole within the pressure sensing chamber that fluidly communicates with the pressure sensing chamber, the at least one hole being sized and shaped smaller than the inner diameter of the tubing extension so that any air bubbles entering the tubing extension are inhibited from entering the pressure sensing chamber;

wherein the tubing extension extends completely through the pressure sensing chamber.

2. The cassette of claim 1 wherein the pressure sensing chamber comprises a hollow void formed in the body enclosed by a pressure sensing diaphragm.

3. The cassette of claim 1 wherein the at least one hole is between approximately 0.0002 square inches to 0.02 square inches in area.

4. The cassette of claim 1 wherein the tubing extension is integrally formed in the body.

5. The cassette of claim 1 further comprising an aspiration tubing connected to the cassette and the tubing extension is formed as a part of the aspiration tubing.

6. A cassette, comprising:

a) a body;

b) a pressure sensing chamber formed in the body, the pressure sensing chamber being formed as a hollow void in the body enclosed by a pressure sensing diaphragm; and

c) a tubing extension integrally formed in the body having an inner diameter and extending through the pressure sensing chamber, the tubing extension having a plurality of holes within the pressure sensing chamber that fluidly communicate with the pressure sensing chamber, the holes being sized and shaped smaller than the inner diameter of the tubing extension so that any air bubbles entering the tubing extension are inhibited from entering the pressure sensing chamber;

wherein the tubing extension extends completely through the pressure sensing chamber.

7. The cassette of claim 6 wherein the holes are between approximately 0.0002 square inches to 0.02 square inches in area.

8. The cassette of claim 6 further comprising an aspiration tubing connected to the cassette.

9. A surgical system, comprising:

a) a surgical console having a cassette receiving portion;

b) a surgical cassette received by the console in the cassette receiving portion, the cassette having

i) a body;

ii) a pressure sensing chamber formed in the body; and

iii) a tubing extension extending through the pressure sensing chamber and having an inner diameter, the tubing extension having a plurality of holes within the pressure sensing chamber that fluidly communicate with the pressure sensing chamber, the holes being sized and shaped smaller than the inner diameter of the tubing extension so that any air bubbles entering the tubing extension are inhibited from entering the pressure sensing chamber;

wherein the tubing extension extends completely through the pressure sensing chamber.

10. The surgical system of claim 9 wherein the pressure sensing chamber comprises a hollow void formed in the body enclosed by a pressure sensing diaphragm.

11. The surgical system of claim 9 wherein the holes are between approximately 0.0002 square inches to 0.02 square inches in area.

12. The surgical system of claim 9 wherein the tubing extension is integrally formed in the body.

13. The surgical system of claim 9 further comprising an aspiration tubing connected to the cassette and the tubing extension is formed as a part of the aspiration tubing.