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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Smiths Medical International Limited, Ashford, GB;
Inventor:
Steve Chambers, Hythe, GB;
Assignee:
SMITHS MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, Ashford, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 16/0445 (2014.02); A61M 16/0463 (2013.01); A61M 16/0465 (2013.01); A61M 2207/00 (2013.01); A61M 2250/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
The sealing cuff () on a tracheal tube has a collar () at its patient end inverted within the inflatable part () of the cuff and attached with the shaftimmediately adjacent its patient end (). The cuff () has a patient end region () of frusto-conical shape inclined to the axis of the shaft at about 30° and extending by about half the length of the inflatable portion.