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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:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 12, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert D Butterfield, Poway, CA (US);
Gregory I Voss, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
IVAC Medical Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
417 43 ; 417 53 ;
Abstract
A pumping mechanism moving in movement increments is controlled to space those movement increments in direct proportion to the volume resulting from each movement increment. In a further aspect, movement increments are grouped to result in approximately equal volumes per group. The mechanism moves continuously through the movement increments in each group. Groups are spaced to result in approximately equal flow volumes per group. The number of groups decreases as the flow rate increases. The number of movement increments in each group and the volume of each group increase as the flow rate increases.