Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitoshi Kuroki

Noboru Ishida

Yoshihiro Yokoo

Shoji Ochiai

Shinichiro Kuroda

A blood collecting apparatus comprises a blood collecting needle; the blood collecting bag, a first tube whose one end communicates with the blood collecting bag and other end communicates with the blood collecting needle, the branch portion provided on a portion of the first tube, a second tube connected with the branch portion at one end thereof and having a blood take-out port (sampling port); and a flexible resin bag including a third tube communicating with the second tube. The flexible resin bag is capable of accommodating air inside a part of the first tube between the branch portion and the blood collecting needle and air inside the second tube when the blood collecting apparatus is used.

Blood collecting apparatus and blood collecting method using blood collecting apparatus

A blood collecting apparatus comprises a blood collecting needle ; the blood collecting bag, a first tube whose one end communicates with the blood collecting bag and other end communicates with the blood collecting needle, the branch portion provided on a portion of the first tube, a second tube connected with the branch portion at one end thereof and having a blood take-out port (sampling port); and a flexible resin bag including a third tube communicating with the second tube. The flexible resin bag is capable of accommodating air inside a part of the first tube between the branch portion and the blood collecting needle and air inside the second tube when the blood collecting apparatus is used.

A blood collecting apparatus comprises a blood collecting needle,; the blood collecting bag, a first tube whose one end communicates with the blood collecting bag and other end communicates with the blood collecting needle, the branch portion provided on a portion of the first tube, a second tube connected with the branch portion at one end thereof and having a blood take-out port (sampling port); and a flexible resin bag including a third tube communicating with the second tube. The flexible resin bag is capable of accommodating air inside a part of the first tube between the branch portion and the blood collecting needle and air inside the second tube when the blood collecting apparatus is used.

Blood collecting apparatus and blood-collecting method using blood collecting apparatus

A remover unit for use in a circuit for removing at least leukocyte from blood or blood preparations, which comprises a remover includes a housing having a blood inlet, a blood outlet, and a filter interposed between the blood inlet and the blood outlet, and at least one air vent having a cap for opening and closing the air vent to ambient atmosphere. With the air vents having such a cap, the removal of air in the course of priming the remover, the operation of starting or stopping filtration, the recovery of residual liquids in the remover and the removal of air from the recovery bag can be facilitated. The filter includes a three-dimensionally reticular, porous member with continuous open pores having a most frequent pore diameter to a number average pore diameter ranging from 1.5 to 2.5.

Remover unit for use in filtration circuit for removing at least

A leukocyte remover includes a housing having a blood inlet, a blood outlet, and a leukocyte-separating filter disposed in the housing such that it partitions the interior of the housing into a blood inlet portion and a blood outlet portion. The leukocyte filter is composed of one or more three-dimensionally reticular, porous members with continuous open pores having a most frequent pore diameter of 1 .mu.m to 5 .mu.m and a ratio of a weight-average pore diameter to a number-average pore diameter in the range of 1.5 to 2.5.

Leukocyte-separating filter and leukocytes remover

A filter for the purification of platelets by dint of selective removal of leucocytes as extraneous matter from blood components, which filter has as a main part thereof a porous body possessing a three-dimensional reticularly continuous texture containing continuous open pores 6 to 12 .mu.m in average diameter and allowing substantially no presence of acute projection inside said pores.

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Fujinomiya, Japan

Hitoshi Kuroki