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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
May. 29, 2018
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yosuke Itamochi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinpei Furukawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A removable pressure sensor assembly senses a pressure in an elastically deformable tube conveying blood in an extracorporeal circulator. The assembly includes a main body portionand a pressure measurement elementdisposed in main body portion. Main body portionhas a base portionwith a tube mounting recessed portionsuch that an intermediate part of a tubeis removably fitted such that tubeis elastically deformed. Pressure measurement elementis exposed to tubeso that it measures a pressure of blood inside tube. A lid portionholds tubeinside tube mounting recessed portionby selectably closing recessed portionof the base portion. Tube mounting recessed portionhas a rectangular cross section, and a width L of the rectangular cross section is set to be smaller than an external dimension D of tube