Deka Products Limited Partnership

Deka Research and Development Corporation

Deka Products Limited Parternship

Deka Products Limted Partnership

Deka Research Products Limited Partnership

Richard J Lanigan

Dean Kamen

Larry B Gray

Kevin L Grant

Stephen Lewis Fichera

John Matthew Kerwin

Jason A Demers

Brian Daniel Tracey

Timothy D Moreau

Gregory R Lanier

Erik N Sabin

Thomas A Friedrich

David Blumberg, Jr

Lisa A Gustin

Bright C K Foo

Marc Aurele Mandro

David W McGill

David D B Cannan

Charles M Grinnell

James D Dale

Dirk Albertus Van Der Merwe

William T Larkins

Michael A Baker

Thomas F Soldau

Simon Christopher Helmore

Robert Manning

Lisa A Panneton

Jeffrey M Janway

Dennis Gilbreath

Frederick Marshall Morgan

Matthew R Gill

Matthew Ware

Christopher Charles Langenfeld

Derek Geoffrey Kane

Colin Holmes Murphy

David E Altobelli

Gerald Michael Guay

Michael C Tilley

Douglas E Vincent

Dane Fawkes

Stuart A Jacobson

John F Mannisto

Cory L Adams

Thomas J Bollenbach

Bright Chong Khuang Foo

Russell Herbert Beavis

Michael J Slate

Robert J Bryant, Jr

Jesse Tetherly Bodwell

Geoffrey P Spencer

Bob D Peret

Brian H Yoo

Gregory R Lanier, Jr

David J Howlett

Bradley D Miller

Jared Hamilton

Richard E Gautney

David W Mcgill

Jacob William Scarpaci

N Christopher Perry

Michael S Place

Kevin A Durand

Clement D Bouchard

Joshua I Ferris

David Db Cannan

Stanley B Smith

David D Cannan

Larry Brian Gray

Peter Andrew Lund

Rodney S Kenley

Keith David Violette

Nicole Denise Bloom

Philip R Houle

Matthew J Johnson

Thomas S Schnellinger

Matthew C Harris

Valentine Faust

Richard E Andrews

Craig R Steinfels

Margaret B Bradley

Kaitlyn S Clarke

Jeffrey C Marrion

Albert A Lepage

Connor E Stadnicki

Colleen N Fulton

Jeffrey Finkelstein

R Kurt Heinzmann

Matthew Richard Gill

Cornelis Plomp

David Blumberg

Farrukh Usman

Michael Baren-Boym

Bright Ck Foo

Robert J Bryant

Bright Foo

Bright Chong Foo

David Cannan

A wearable infusion pump assembly includes a reservoir for receiving an infusible fluid, and an external infusion set configured to deliver the infusible fluid to a user. A fluid delivery system is configured to deliver the infusible fluid from the reservoir to the external infusion set. The fluid delivery system includes a volume sensor assembly, and a pump assembly for extracting a quantity of infusible fluid from the reservoir and providing the quantity of infusible fluid to the volume sensor assembly. The volume sensor assembly is configured to determine the volume of at least a portion of the quantity of fluid. The fluid delivery system further includes a first valve assembly configured to selectively isolate the pump assembly from the reservoir, and a second valve assembly configured to selectively isolate the volume sensor assembly from the external infusion set.

Infusion pump assembly

Infusion set component and adhering assembly combination

A fill adapter system for an infusion pump assembly. The system includes a reusable fill adapter base, the base including a volume control mechanism to adjust an available fill volume of a reservoir of the infusion pump assembly and a pump mechanism configured to pump air into a fluid vial. The system also includes a vial adapter assembly including a first needle configured to penetrate a septum of the fluid vial for fluidly coupling the pump mechanism to the fluid vial and a second needle having a first end configured to penetrate the septum of the fluid vial and a second end configured to penetrate a septum of the reservoir of the infusion pump assembly to allow transfer of fluid from the fluid vial to the reservoir of the infusion pump assembly in response to air being pumped into the fluid vial and a needle carriage adapted to carry the first needle and the second needle, wherein the needle carriage slidably attached to the interior of the vial adapter assembly, wherein the needle carriage adapted to slide from a vial end of the vial adapter to a receptacle end of the vial adapter.

Apparatus, system and method for fluid delivery

A filling aid. The filling aid includes a locking portion including a groove feature; and a locking feature having a locked and an unlocked position; and a filling syringe holder slidably attached to the locking portion, the filling syringe holder including a filling needle cradle portion having a tongue feature; and a needle housing portion comprising at least one tab having a starting position and a filling position, wherein the groove feature configured to accommodate the tongue feature, and wherein the locking feature interact with the filling syringe holder wherein when the locking feature moves from the locked position to the unlocked position the needle housing portion moves from the starting position to the filling position.

Lock member

A wearable infusion pump assembly includes a reusable housing assembly, and a disposable housing assembly including a reservoir for receiving an infusible fluid. A releasable engagement assembly is configured to allow the reusable housing assembly to releasably engage the disposable housing assembly. A detachable external infusion set is configured to deliver the infusible fluid to a user.

Wearable pump assembly

An example agent administration device may comprise a housing. The device may further comprise a sharp assembly including a delivery sharp. The sharp assembly may be reciprocally displaceable along a guide channel of the housing. The device may further comprise an access port in fluid communication with the delivery sharp. The device may further comprise an actuation assembly configured drive the sharp assembly, via urging of a single bias member, from a storage state in which the delivery sharp is within the housing, through a first extended position in which the delivery sharp extends a maximum distance from the housing and to a partially retracted position in which the delivery sharp extends a lesser distance from the housing.

Medical agent dispensing apparatuses, systems, and methods

A system and method for growing and maintaining biological material including producing a protein associated with the tissue, selecting cells associated with the tissue, expanding the cells, creating at least one tissue bio-ink including the expanded cells, printing the at least one tissue bio-ink in at least one tissue growth medium mixture, growing the tissue from the printed at least one tissue bio-ink, and maintaining viability of the tissue.

System and method for creating tissue

An inserter assembly comprising a first unit including a skin contacting face which surrounds an opening and a second unit housed within the first unit. The second unit comprises an infusion set base disposed within the opening and having a bottom face which is substantially level with the skin contacting face and covered at least partially with adhesive and further comprising a spring biased insertion assembly. The second unit further comprising a cannula sub assembly carried by an insertion sharp of the insertion assembly. The spring biased insertion assembly and a cannula of the cannula sub assembly are driven into skin and the cannula sub assembly is coupled into the infusion set base by an insertion spring which is released from an energy storing state after the skin has been tugged upward beyond a certain distance by the adhesive as the inserter assembly is withdrawn from the body.

Infusion set and inserter assembly systems and methods

A fluid handling cassette, such as that useable with an automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) cycler device or other infusion apparatus, may include a generally planar body having at least one pump chamber formed as a depression in a first side of the body and a plurality of flowpaths for a fluid that includes a channel. A patient line port may be arranged for connection to a patient line and be in fluid communication with the at least one pump chamber via at least a first one of said flowpaths, and an optional membrane may be attached to the first side of the body over the at least one pump chamber. In one embodiment, the membrane may have a pump chamber portion with an unstressed shape that generally conforms to the depression of the at least one pump chamber in the body and is arranged to be movable for movement of the fluid in a useable space of the at least one pump chamber. One or more spacers may be provided in the at least one pump chamber to prevent the membrane from contacting an inner wall of the at least one pump chamber. The patient line, a drain line, and/or a heater bag line may be positioned to be separately occludable in relation to one or more solution lines that are connectable to the cassette.

Pump cassette and methods for use in medical treatment system using a plurality of fluid lines

A valved manifold module is disclosed, constructed and arranged to be readily connected in a chain with similar modules to form a manifold assembly. The modular manifolds allows for expansion or modification of the manifold assembly to control a group of pneumatically or hydraulically driven pumps, valves or combinations thereof in a liquid flow control apparatus. The valved manifold module can be configured to accept a group of four substantially identical valve assemblies, and can be controlled by a local controller mounted to the manifold module, thus forming an independently programmable valved manifold module. The resulting modular system is expandable to allow for coordinated operations of a liquid flow control system, using substantially independent controller functions originating at the manifold assembly level.

Modular valve apparatus and system

A fluid connector assembly. The fluid connector assembly includes a tab portion including a slot; a plug portion slidably connected to the tab portion the plug portion comprising a fluid path and a disc, the disc configured to seat within the slot; a catch feature located on a first end of the tab portion and configured to interact with a reservoir; and a latching feature located on a second end of the tab portion, the latching feature configured to interact and lock onto the reservoir, wherein force applied to the plug portion may overcome a threshold force and unseat the disc from the slot wherein the plug portion moves with respect to the tab portion.

A protective mechanism for use when gripping a medical device to a rack is provided. A related system and method are also provided. The protective mechanism includes a connector, an actuation member configured to have a first end portion and a second end portion. The cover member is configured to interact with the actuation member so as to pivot to uncover the connector when the actuation member pivots in a first direction and to pivot to cover the connector when the actuation member pivots in a second direction.

System, method, and apparatus for clamping

A repeater system may control a pump by using a repeater and a user interface. An adhesive patch system may be used for affixing a pump or other object to a human body. Such an adhesive patch system may include two sets of adhesive members, each member including an adhesive material on at least one side so as to attach to the body. The members of the first set are spaced to allow the members of the second set to attach to the body in spaces provided between the members of the first set, and the members of the second set are spaced to allow members of the first set to detach from the body without detaching the members of the second set. Also, fill stations and base stations are provided for personal pump systems.

Adhesive and peripheral systems and methods for medical devices

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Concord, NH, United States of America

Richard J Lanigan