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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eric J Thor, Columbia Heights, MN (US);
Kevin D McIntosh, Albertville, MN (US);
Bruce R Jones, Plymouth, MN (US);
Jeremy D Dando, Plymouth, MN (US);
Assignee:
Avecor Cardiovascular Inc., Plymouth, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ; A61M / ; B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422 45 ; 128D / ; 210436 ; 422 44 ; 422 46 ; 422 47 ; 604-4 ; 604126 ; 604122 ; 604317 ;
Abstract
A reservoir for use in an extracorporeal blood circuit including a rigid shell forming an enclosed reservoir. A filter unit divides the reservoir into an inlet chamber and outlet chamber. Cardiotomy blood filtering and defoaming means and venous blood filtering and defoaming means are located within the inlet chamber.