Lansinoh Laboratories, Inc.

Hollister, Inc.

Alex J Gruber

Frank Tinghwa Wang

Peter Lawrence Visconti

Rush Lloyd Bartlett, Ii

Patrick C Tetzlaff

Brian T Leadingham

Gregory J Czaplewski

Yuka Yamaguchi

John Burke

Grant Smetham

Graeme Davies

Ed Hele

Nicholas A Kerscher

A wearable breastmilk collection device includes a storage compartment with a flange and a cup, a breast accepting flange separated from the storage compartment by a one-way valve, a vacuum source attachment, and a reservoir in communication with the vacuum source attachment. A method of expressing and collecting breastmilk from a breast may involve using the wearable breastmilk collection device described above to express breastmilk from the breast, while the device is positioned in the woman's brassiere.

Breastmilk collection system

A breastmilk collection device includes breast contacting flange, a vacuum reservoir, flexible diaphragm separating the breast contacting flange and the vacuum reservoir, and a flange receiver between the breast contacting flange and the flexible diaphragm. The breast contacting flange has a wide portion for accepting the breast and a narrow portion. The flexible diaphragm is located between the narrow portion and the vacuum reservoir. The flexible diaphragm moves between a sealed configuration, in which the breast contacting flange is sealed off from the vacuum reservoir, and an open valve configuration, in which the flexible diaphragm acts as a one-way valve to allow expressed milk to flow through a milk flow opening between the flexible diaphragm and the breast contacting flange when an opening pressure is reached in the breast contacting flange.

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Wind Lake, WI, United States of America

Alex J Gruber