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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2013
Applicant:
Merit Medical Systems, Inc., South Jordan, UT (US);
Inventors:
Brian Stevens, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);
William Padilla, Sandy, UT (US);
Steven Weir, Sandy, UT (US);
Assignee:
Merit Medical Systems, Inc., South Jordan, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 5/178 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/10182 (2013.11); A61M 2005/1787 (2013.01);
Abstract
An inflation device that may comprise multiple plungers is disclosed. The inflation device may have multiple configurations wherein certain plungers are locked with respect to a body of the inflation device while others are configured to be displaceable within the body. Each plunger may be configured with a different effective surface area, allowing a practitioner to vary the amount of force required to attain certain pressures.