Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited

Fisher & Paykel Limited

Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon

Craig Robert Prentice

Wen Dong Huang

Silas Sao Jin Siew

Yi-Cheng Sun

Venkata Subbarao Potharaju

Jonathan David Harwood

Philip John Dickinson

Brett John Huddart

Andre Van Schalkwyk

Jason Allan Klenner

Laurence Gulliver

Alastair Edwin McAuley

Kevin Peter O'Donnell

Mark Arvind McLaren

Lewis George Gradon

Michael Paul Ronayne

Arvin San Jose Gardiola

Rex Gordon Faithfull

Mark Samuel Hamilton

James William Stanton

Paul Fleming Buckley

Michael John Andresen

Jonathan Andrew George Lambert

Gregory James Olsen

Christopher Earl Nightingale

Daniel John Smith

Max Leon Betteridge

Martin Paul Friedrich Kramer

Sean Joel Babbage

Thomas Mark Richardson

Vitaly Kapelevich

Jeroen Hammer

David Robert Kemps

Tony William Spear

Nordyn Alami

Hamish Joshua Rose

Andrew John Partington

Matthew Robert Geoff Slight

Fadi Karim Moh'd Mashal

Simon Mittermeier

Matthew Jon Payton

Peter Geoffrey Hawkins

Benjamin Wilson Casse

Dean Antony Barker

Stanislav Tatkov

Brent Ian Laing

Russel William Burgess

Stephen David Evans

Jae Chul Han

Olivia Marie Allan

Christie Jayne Stanton

Hayden Owen Briscoe

Samuel Frew

Steven John Worthington

Cameron Jon Haxton

Puqing Zhang

Ella Marie Meisel

Rachel Adeline Miller

Peter Lawrence Grylls

Douglas Richard Wright

Dominique Richard D'Andrea

Andrew Chi Lup Lau

Sergiu Constantin Filip

Robin Lynn Randolph

Silvan Terence Butler

David Monroy Felix

Andrew Martin Letton

Matthew James Pedersen

Simon Mordechai Stam

Bernhard Florian Lamprecht

Stephen William Kavermann

Nicholas Edward Vaughan

Guohua Bao

Sally Margaret Hensman

Tak-Ming Chung

Samuel William Saunders

Robbie Gavin Peris

Alastair Edwin Mcauley

Mark Mclaren

Mark John Arrowsmith

Sooji Hope Clarkson

Leon Edward Evans

Alex Young

Richard Daniel Panara

Joel Michael Lawson

Jae Chui Han

Erwin J Meyer

Cameron Alexander Lawrence

Eamonn Bernard McKnight

Roger Conway

Irwin Joseph Meyer

Mladen Smolcic

Ramirlindo Agra Dawinan

Jonathan McLean Thomson

Tak Ming Chung

Maximilian Ichabod Pinkham

Yi Cheng Sun

A gas humidification system can have a conduit defining a gas passageway. A mass of a first absorbent material can be located in the conduit. A mass of a second absorbent material can cover at least a part of the surface of the conduit. An orifice can be located on the conduit to allow communication between the first and second absorbent materials. A heating element can be placed within, on, around, or near the first absorbent material. The heating element can heat up moisture in or on the first absorbent material such that the moisture is encouraged to join gases passing through the gas humidification system.

Humidification system

A patient interface has a single loop head strap and a mask for covering at least the nostrils of the user. The single loop head strap extends from the mask at either end. A short length of supple conduit is coupled to the mask by a swivel or ball joint to allow rotation of the conduit relative to the mask through different angles and orientations.

Frame with supporting arms and length adjustable strap

Connector for a breathing conduit

A holder apparatus for holding a conduit and/or patient interface such as a cannula, has a mountto couple with a breathing assistance apparatusand at least one mechanical featurefor holding the conduit and/or patient interface such as a cannula in place relative to the breathing assistance apparatus.

Support for a breathing assistance apparatus and/or accessories

A breathing assistance apparatus has a housing with a recess. A guard is mounted to the housing, the guard having a base and a barrier. At least part of the base is flexible. The barrier is movable between a covering position in which the barrier partly covers the recess and an access position in which the recess is less covered or is uncovered by the barrier. Said at least part of the base is configured to flex as the barrier is moved between the covering position and the access position.

Breathing assistance apparatus

A blower unit for use as part of an integrated blower/humidification system is described. The blower unit has an outer casing, which encloses and forms part of the blower unit, the casing including an air inlet vent. The blower unit further includes a humidifier compartment for receiving a humidifier unit with a separate gases inlet and outlet, the compartment having a heater base for heating the contents of the humidifier unit. The compartment also has a blower inlet port which aligns with the humidifier unit inlet in use, the blower providing a gases path through the casing between the inlet vent and the inlet port. The blower unit also includes a fan for providing a pressurised gases stream along the gases path, and a power supply unit for powering the fan. The gases path is routed over the power supply unit in order to provide a cooling air flow.

Integrated humidifier chamber and lid

Patient interface cover

A breathing apparatus with a user interface comprising a display for displaying at least one menu item, a first button operable to sequentially cycle through and display a plurality of menu items, a second and optionally third button operable to configure a parameter of the selected menu item, and a fourth button operable to confirm the change of a parameter of the selected menu item, wherein the parameter is a respiratory parameter and/or other breathing apparatus parameter.

User interface and method for operating a breathing apparatus

A component useable with one or more tube comprises a body engageable with one or more external surface recesses of the one or more tubes. The component has a pair of jaws extending from the body for gripping an item. The component is configured, such that, in use, in a first orientation of the body relative to the respective tube(s) recesses, the component is movable along a length of the tube(s); and, in a second orientation of the body relative to the respective tube(s) recesses, the component is resistive to movement along a length of the tube(s).

Circuit kit with locking tube clip

A support apparatus for a breathing assistance apparatus has a base, a mount, and a handle. The mount is configured to releasably couple the support apparatus with the breathing assistance apparatus by lowering the breathing assistance apparatus relative to the mount. The handle is configured to enable the support apparatus and a releasably coupled breathing assistance apparatus to be lifted and carried by a user.

A humidifier heater base assembly has a heater plate with a thermally conductive portion and a perimeter portion around a perimeter of the heater plate. A resilient member has an inner part attached to the perimeter portion and an outer part adapted to provide a resilient perimeter flange around at least part and preferably the whole of the perimeter portion. The resilient member fixes the heater base to the humidifier by the resilient perimeter flange such that the heater plate and the inner part can move relative to the humidifier in a direction substantially transverse to the general plane of the heater plate. At least a portion of the resilient perimeter flange remains stationary relative to the humidifier.

Humidifier heater base

A respiratory mask for providing positive pressure therapy having ball jointed elbow, one or more detachable forehead pieces and headgear comprising a spacer fabric region is disclosed herein. The elbow is configured to be removable when oriented to a predetermined position. The forehead pieces are provided in one or more sizes. The spacer fabric region comprises two or more layers wherein the raw edges are turned to the inside of the layers. The seal comprises features that improves seal performance and accommodates a wider variety of facial geometries.

Gender based full-face mask sizes

An apparatus for delivering a flow of gas has a housing, a cover, and a magnetic coupling system arranged to magnetically couple the cover—to the housing. Each of the housing and cover having complementary locating features, the locating features being adapted to locate and align the cover and the apparatus relative to each other to allow for the magnetic coupling. The apparatus also has a handle movably connected to the housing and is movable from a first position to a second position. The housing and the handle comprise complementary interlock features arranged to engage with each other when upward force is applied to the handle in the second position, and the interlock features are disengaged from each other when the handle is in the second position but upward force is not applied to the handle.

A respiratory mask can have a frame supporting a sealing arrangement. Various features of the frame and sealing arrangement can improve comfort and reduce the occurrence of pressure sores. The frame can include cheek supports that have a large surface area configured to spread loads over a greater area of the patient's face and therefore reduce the forces applied to the face and the occurrence of point loads. The seal can have a main body that includes a spring with a silicone skin, wherein the spring applies a substantially constant force to the face and/or nares of the patient.

Respiratory mask with cheek supports

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Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon