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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:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2008
Applicants:
Stephen James Field, Bridge, GB;
Jonathan Peter Hughes, Backford, GB;
John Edward Nash, Hythe, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Smiths Group PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A tracheal tube () or laryngeal mask has a sealing cuff () with a surface covered by a brush-like material () provided by closely-packed fibers () between 1 mm and 5 mm in length. The brush-like surface () may be provided by coating the surface with an adhesive and using an electrostatic charge to draw fibers () to adhere to the adhesive.