Dragerwerk Aktiengesellschaft

Uvo Holscher

Ulrich Heim

Wolfgang Falb

Siegfried Kiske

Karl-Ludwig Gippert

Ralf-Ernst Loser

Christoph Maurer

Christoph Mauer

Bernt Klinger

A medical apparatus 1 is equipped with: a metering device (2, 3) for a fluid medium (4, 5); a computer unit 19 controlling the metering device (2, 3) according to individual input quantities; a display screen 12 for displaying possible input quantities inside menu structures; a rotatable knob 13 for selecting an input quantity; a pressure-actuated acknowledgment switch 15 for assuming the selected input quantity as a setting value for one of the metering devices 2; and, a further switch 16. This medical apparatus facilitates the correction of incorrectly assumed input quantities. This is provided in that the further switch is configured as a pull switch or slide switch 16 activated by a rotatable knob 13. The pull or slide switch 16 transmits a signal (S1) which cancels the assumption of the input quantity. The signal S1 is transmitted to the computer unit 19 or to the metering device 2 or to both.

Medical apparatus having a metering device

A multichannel metering system, for metering preselected fluid flows from individual fluid flow sources, includes a control device, and data fields which are located in the control device (memory) and describe at least the metering of the individual fluid flows, and can be polled to an operating surface connected to the control device with a data input circuit and with a data output circuit. The data field associated with a fluid flow source can be selected in a simple manner using selector switches associated as part of the data input circuit with individual fluid flow sources by which selector switches at least segments of the fluid flow source belonging to the fluid flow source selected can be represented on the operating surface. At least part of the data input circuit are switched into functional connection with the data field belonging to the fluid flow source selected.

Centralized multichannel fluid delivery system

A gas ratio control device for anesthetic apparatus with an anesthetic gas feed line 1, which has a control valve 12 and a first measuring resistance 6, and an oxygen feed line 2 with a second measuring resistance 10, wherein the differential pressure determined from the measuring resistances is sent to a proportional member 13 for regulating oxygen feed to anesthetic gas feed. So oxygen concentration will not drop below a minimum oxygen concentration value in the case of anesthetics to be metered at both low and high doses, one of the measuring resistances 6, 10 can be replaced or bridged over with a bypass line 14, which contains a throttle point 15 (FIG. 1).

Gas ratio control device for anesthetic apparatus

A filling device for anesthetic vaporizers, with a connection piece which can be connected to a connection opening of an anesthetic reservoir in a gas-tight and liquid-tight manner. Leakage of anesthetic gas or liquid anesthetic can be avoided during the filling especially of low-boiling anesthetics by providing the reservoir 10 with a seal 17, which closes the connection opening 9 at least in a liquid-tight manner and can be opened by a projection 5 which is arranged on the connection piece 2 and extends into the interior space of the connection opening 9, as soon as the connection piece 2 is sealed off from the surroundings against the connection opening 9 by a sealing element 15 in a gas-tight and liquid-tight manner.

Filling device for anesthetic vaporizers

A process for calibrating a flow sensor in a respiratory system, with final control elements arranged in the respiratory system for influencing the respiration gas stream, is to be improved in terms of the influence of the qualitative gas composition of the respiration gas. To accomplish the task, the final control elements 4, 11 are switched, for calibration, over to a closed respiratory system with directed respiration gas stream. The drive unit 13 feeds the respiration gas present in the respiratory system through the flow sensor 9 according to a predetermined time-volume relationship. A calibration value for the flow sensor 9 is formed by comparison of the time-volume relationship with the measured signal of the flow sensor 9.

Process for the calibration of a flow sensor in a respiratory system

A metering device for a liquid anesthetic that is fed from a reservoir via a supply line into a heatable intermediate container maintained under pressure, from which gaseous anesthetic is fed via a metering valve into a fresh gas line. Accurate metering, which can be better monitored, is provided for low-boiling anesthetics. A supply unit 7 is mounted in the supply line 5, and liquid anesthetic is transported by the supply unit 7 into the intermediate container 6 until it is filled up to a predetermined filling level. A heating device 12 stabilizes the temperature of the liquid bath and ensures a sufficiently high vapor pressure of the gaseous anesthetic above the liquid phase. The anesthetic vapor is sent via the metering valve into the fresh gas line.

Metering device for a liquid anesthetic via an intermediate container

A metering pump for metering low-boiling liquids, especially liquid anesthetics provides continuous metering of liquid. To achieve this, the pump chamber 7 is maintained at a temperature below the boiling point of the liquid by means of a cooling device 14, preferably a Peltier cell.

Pumping device for the metered feed of liquids

An anesthetic metering device is provided with a temperature-stabilized anesthetic vapor source, from which anesthetic vapor 14 is metered into a carrier gas stream via a delivery line 8 with a metering valve 11 that can be controlled by a control unit 6. The arrangement is provided so that uncontrolled evaporation of anesthetic is prevented. To accomplish this task, the anesthetic vapor source is designed as a vaporizer chamber 2 filled with liquid anesthetic 3, and a gas delivery element 9 generating the metering pressure P.sub.I is present in front of the metering valve 11.

Anesthetic metering device

An anesthetic metering device with a bypass stream 5 passed from a gas inlet opening 2 via a bypass valve 3 to a gas discharge opening 4 and with a vaporizer chamber stream 7 flowing from a vaporizer chamber 6 via an adjusting device. Accurate metering is possible even in the case of anesthetics with low boiling points by manufacturing the vaporizer chamber 6 at least at the saturation vapor pressure of the anesthetic 22. The adjusting device includes a differential pressure transducer 9 connected on both sides of the bypass valve 3 and a metering valve 10, wherein the metering valve 10 is actuated by the output quantity 11 of the differential pressure transducer 9 via a proportional member 12 so that the concentration is adjusted via the variable transmission ratio of the proportional member 12.

A locking device 5 for a metering device 3 of an anesthetic vaporizer 1 with an unlocking device 6 for actuating the metering device 3 is provided so as to ensure blocking of the unlocking device 6 in operating states that are unsuitable for the operation of the anesthetic vaporizer 1. The locking device 5 is provided having a final control element 20, 24, 29 that covers a regulating distance that depends on a parameter influencing the operating state of the anesthetic vaporizer 1. This regulating distance of the final control element is transmitted to a blocking device 13 which blocks the unlocking device 6 if the values of the parameter are unsuitable for the operation of the anesthetic vaporizer 1.

Locking device for a metering device for an anesthetic vaporizer

The invention is directed to a measuring cell for detecting a component of a measuring sample. The measuring cell includes a housing in which an electrolyte as well as a measuring electrode and a counter electrode are accommodated. A membrane separates the electrolyte from the measuring sample and is pressed by a supporting part against the measuring surface of the measuring electrode. This membrane is improved such that it can compensate for volumetric changes in the electrolyte chamber in the clamped condition. The measuring cell is further improved in that a small amount of readiness energy is required for the operational-ready condition and the attachment of the membrane is not critical for its later function. A first portion of this membrane is pressed against the measuring electrode. In the region outside of this first portion and extending up to the peripheral edge where it is attached, a compensating membrane portion is formed which can change in its configuration.

Electrochemical measuring cell having a compensating membrane

A measuring electrode is disclosed for pH measurement, in particular for the transcutaneous determination of CO.sub.2 partial pressure. The measuring electrode is configured so that the shape thereof can be adapted to any shape of electrode carrier by mechanical working. For this purpose, the measuring electrode has a contact body containing the metal oxide in powdered form and the latter is in direct electrical contact with the metal of the metal oxide.

Measuring electrode

An electrochemical measuring cell is disclosed having a device for sensing an external electical potential. The device is arranged in the region of the outer surface of the diffusion membrane of the cell. The device can be, for example, in the form of a conductive, gas-permeable coating applied to the outer surface of the diffusion membrane.

Electrochemical measuring cell having an ancillary electrode

An electrode arrangement in transducers for the combined measurement of various physiological quantities includes adhesion areas for connecting the arrangement to the skin. To increase adhesion strength and to provide a better electric insulation between measuring electrodes in the transducer, a ring body which carries the electrodes is provided with an adhesive area which includes an electrolytically or electrically conductive doping zone that extends up to an outer edge piece of the ring body. The edge piece is made of electrically insulating material, one of the measuring electrodes is put into electric contact with the skin through the doping zone.

Electrode arrangement for transducers

An electrochemical measuring cell is disclosed wherein the diffusion membrane which separates the electrolyte from the ambient is made of an intrinsically-conductive and electrochemically active plastic. This way the diffusion membrane itself defines the measuring electrode of the measuring cell. This is a substantial advantage over known electrochemical measuring cells wherein the measuring electrode is defined by an electrically conductive layer applied to the surface of the diffusion membrane facing toward the electrolyte. By making the diffusion membrane from an electrochemically active plastic, a removal of the electrically-conductive layer from the diffusion membrane is prevented.

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Stockelsdorf, Germany

Uvo Holscher