Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh

Fresenius Ag

Martin Lauer

Manfred Weis

Joachim Manke

Peter Scheunert

Uwe Hahmann

Josef Beden

Martin Herklotz

Ralf Müller

Reinhold Reiter

Goetz Guenther

Alexander Bongers

Götz Günther

Juergen Haecker

Wolfgang Biesel

Michael Herrenbauer

Hans-Peter Schneider

Ralf Wamsiedler

Thomas Nuernberger

Tobias Weber

Jochen Schneider

Marco Caronna

Berthold Breitkopf

Manfred Baumann

Joerg Jonas

Joern Apel

Elmar Huegel

Herbert Neubauer

Gerhard Spengler

Christian Busse

Dejan Nikolic

Soeren Gronau

Jürgen Häcker

Ralf Mueller

Christoph Brueckner

Goetz Günther

Markus Koehler

Udo Waeber

Sören Gronau

Markus Köhler

Massimo Earl Fini

Arne Peters

Klaus Heilmann

Franz Kugelmann

Gerhard Wiesen

Alain Veneroni

Stefan Kreber

Wolfgang Schulz

Uwe Lapp

Jörg Jonas

Claus Jessen

Ismael Rahimy

Thomas Nürnberger

Günther Götz

Elmar Hügel

Jörn Apel

Thomas Nurnberger

Jorg Jonas

Elmar Hugel

Jorn Apel

Christoph BRÜCKNER

Massimo Fini

Udo WÄBER

A medical fluid coupling for connecting a fluid line to a connection section of a blood treatment apparatus or for connecting to a connecting adapter comprises at least one main body. The main body includes a first latching element with a first section. The first section is designed to be elastically bendable and/or elastically tiltable. The main body may optionally include a second latching element with a second section. At least one of the first latching element and the second latching element comprises a recess for receiving a protrusion of the connection section and/or a protrusion to reach into a recess of the blood treatment apparatus or of the connecting adapter.

Medical fluid coupling and a latching connector for establishing a fluid communication between two systems

A tube connection part adapted to accommodate a flexible tube made from a material comprising polyvinyl chloride, wherein said tube connection part comprises a sleeve adapted to form an overlapping region between said tube connection part and said tube, wherein an adhesion promoting agent is deposited on at least a subsection of a surface of said sleeve, characterized in that the adhesion promoting agent comprises a styrene-butadiene block copolymer.

Tube connection

The present disclosure relates to a contact protection apparatus for covering connection point(s) of a medical fluid-conducting cassette used for a medical treatment. The contact protection apparatus includes at least one covering section for covering the connection point before the use of the cassette, and at least one connection section for detachably connecting the contact protection apparatus or for holding the contact protection apparatus on the cassette. It further relates to a medical fluid-conducting cassette with a contact protection apparatus.

Contact protection apparatus for a medical fluid-conducting cassette and cassette

A fluid cassette, for example, a blood treatment cassette having a cassette body embodied as a hard part and, optionally, a film which is connected to the hard part and at least partially covers the hard part, wherein the hard part comprises at least one first alignment device, and a second alignment device which are optionally arranged at first and second opposite sides of the fluid cassette or are attached thereon. The disclosure relates in addition to a blood treatment apparatus.

Fluid cassette with alignment latching having an improved tilt-tolerance as well as a blood treatment apparatus

An external functional means comprises at least one housing body, at least one chamber integrated into the housing body for receiving medical fluids, at least one passage integrated into the housing body for receiving and/or conducting a medical fluid, and at least one valve means completely or partly integrated into the housing body for controlling or regulating a fluid flowing through the external functional means. The invention further specifies a blood treatment apparatus and methods which may be carried out by means of the external functional means of the invention and by means of the blood treatment apparatus, respectively.

External functional means, blood treatment apparatus for receiving an external functional means in accordance with the invention, and method

A medical functional device with a valve seat for a check valve wherein the check valve is embodied such that it takes, in addition to a first position which is suitable for gas sterilization, a second, functional position, by means of applying force onto a section of the check valve or by means of moving or shifting the section, in which the check valve adopts a check or non-return function, wherein the check valve is embodied such that it remains in the second position after release or shortfall of the force or the moving effect following an accomplished transfer into the second position.

Medical functional device with a valve seat for a remanent check valve

The present invention proposes a medical heat exchanger for heating with a light emitter. The heat exchanger disclosed here has at least one fluid chamber having at least one outside wall which forms the fluid chamber with a fluid-tight seal, such that the fluid chamber is configured for receiving and/or conducting the medical fluid and such that the fluid chamber has at least one component, which is configured as a light absorber and is arranged within the fluid chamber in at least some sections so that there is direct contact between the component configured as the light absorber and the medical fluid in at least some sections when receiving and/or conducting the medical fluid and wherein the outside wall of the fluid chamber has at least one light-transmitting section, so that the light emitted by the light emitter can heat the absorber without any local temperature peaks on the medical heat exchanger.

Medical heat exchanger for heating medical fluids by means of a light emitter and medical fluid treatment device having a light emitter

An apparatus for treating a medical fluid is provided which includes a treatment machine having a coupling surface, with a cassette made of a hard part having liquid-conducting passages which are covered by a flexible film being able to be coupled to the coupling surface of the treatment machine. A corresponding medical cassette is also provided. An air-free coupling of the flexible film of the cassette to the treatment machine is ensured in that air can be sucked out areally along a plane between the flexible film and the coupling surface during the coupling process and/or with a coupled cassette. A method for coupling the cassette and a method for checking the leaktightness of the cassette via the vacuum control of the air suction is also provided.

Device and method for treating a medical fluid and medical cassette

The present invention relates to a blood treatment cassette having a cassette body, embodied as a hard part, and a film, wherein the film is connected with the hard part and covers the hard part at least partially, wherein the hard part comprises at least one valve seat or valve section or one valve base of a valve, wherein the valve is embodied to take, in addition to a first, open position of the valve in which the valve base and the section of the film positioned above it do not touch each other, a second, closed position of the valve when applying force on the section of the film and wherein the valve base, in its longitudinal extension, comprises or is a non-straight section. The present invention also relates to a blood treatment apparatus connected with a blood treatment cassette.

Blood treatment cassette having a dented film valve and a blood treatment apparatus

A blood treatment cassette having a cassette body, designed as a hard part, and a film, wherein the film is connected with the hard part and covers the hard part at least partially, wherein the hard part comprises at least one valve base of a valve and wherein the valve is embodied to take, in addition to a first, open position of the valve in which the valve base and the section of the film that is arranged above it do not touch each other, a second, closed position of the valve when applying force on the section of the film in which the valve base and the section of the film touch each other.

Blood treatment cassette with film valve and inelastical spacer as well as blood treatment apparatus

A blood treatment cassette having a cassette body comprising a hard part and a film that at least partially covers the hard part. The hard part comprises a valve base that cooperates with a section of the film adjacent the valve base to form a valve that is configured to be moved from a first open position in which the valve base and the section of the film do not touch each other to a second position in which the valve base and the section of the film touch each other when a force is applied to the section of the film. The blood treatment cassette comprises a spacer supported by the hard part, and the spacer is configured to apply, in the first position of the valve, force to the section of the film.

Blood treatment cassette with film valve and elastic spacer as well as blood treatment apparatus

A dialysis machine that includes a valve member having a deformable area configured to deform outwardly away when pressurized fluid is introduced into the valve member. The valve member is configured so that, when a dialysis fluid cassette is disposed in a cassette compartment of the dialysis machine and pressurized fluid is introduced into the valve member, the deformable area obstructs a fluid channel of the dialysis fluid cassette to control dialysis fluid flow therethrough.

Dialysis systems and related methods

A screw connector includes a first connector with a first lumen and an outside thread, and a second connector with an elastically deformable nut and an inside thread. The outside thread has a first formation and the nut has a second formation, the second formation is a recess in the base of the nut, and the inside thread and the outside thread are configured for mutual connection. The nut is configured for deformation by the first formation in a first angle-of-rotation range without the first formation engaging in the recess, and the inside thread, the outside thread, the first formation, and the recess are configured for engaging the first formation when the inside and outside threads are connected in a second angle-of-rotation range. The screw connector has a half-open sterilization position in the second angle-of-rotation range. In another range, the screw connector may be tightened to be gas-tight and/or liquid-tight.

Screw connector for medical hose systems and a medical hose system having a screw connector

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Martin Lauer