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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2016
Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
John Gillespie, Naperville, IL (US);
Ralph H. LaBedz, McHenry, IL (US);
Michael Kenneth Platt, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Ronald H. Spang, Kenosha, WI (US);
James Frei Berrill, Cary, IL (US);
Matthew Stephen Vogel, Round Lake, IL (US);
Michelle Kowalski Greaney, Grayslake, IL (US);
Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Abstract
An infusion pump operable with a syringe having a syringe barrel and a syringe plunger includes a housing having a compartment to receive the syringe and defining a wall, and a syringe clamp moveable towards and away from the wall, the syringe clamp contacting the syringe barrel; a drive mechanism supported and structured and arranged to contact and end of the syringe plunger so as to be able to move the syringe plunger within the syringe barrel; a syringe barrel size sensor including a magnet operably coupled to the syringe clamp, and a sensing member supported by the housing and configured to generate an output indicative of a magnetic field associated with the magnet; and software installed on the pump and programmed to use the output to determine a size of the syringe barrel received by the compartment.