Medtronic Electromedics, Inc.

Jacek Lasota

Mark T Patton

The present invention is a centrifuge bowl housing and cover latch suitable for use in a blood separation system. The housing is mounted on shock absorbers to minimize transmission of vibrations from the centrifuge. The housing is configured to retain spilled liquids, efficiently collect the spilled liquids, drain liquids away from the drive means, and drain liquids out of a drain port to a collection container. The housing has a transparent cover that opens to allow loading of centrifuge bowls into the housing. The cover is a shatter resistant material and when closed, seals the top of the housing, retaining blood components and flying pieces of a centrifuge bowl if the bowl breaks. The cover has a latch that prevents the centrifuge from spinning when the cover is open and prevents opening of the cover when the centrifuge is spinning.

Centrifuge bowl housing and latch for blood separation apparatus

A peristaltic pump and tube body system disclosed includes a pump housing, a pump rotor rotatably mounted in the housing, and a motor for driving the rotor. The housing has a pair of opposed side walls hinged and releasably latched to the housing whereby insertion and removal of a pump tube is facilitated. The rotor has two rollers disposed at 180 degrees to one another together with opposed rigid bearing surfaces inside the housing which squeeze the latch to produce a pumping action when the rotor is rotated in either direction.

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Thornton, CO, United States of America

Jacek Lasota