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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
John Gillespie, Libertyville, IL (US);
Ralph H. LaBedz, McHenry, IL (US);
Michael Kenneth Platt, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Ronald H. Spang, Kenosha, WI (US);
James Frei Berrill, Cary, IL (US);
Matthew Stephen Vogel, Round Lake, IL (US);
Michelle Kowalski Greaney, Grayslake, IL (US);
Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Abstract
An infusion pump includes a housing having a compartment structured to receive a syringe and a drive mechanism supported by the housing. The drive mechanism is structured and arranged to contact a syringe plunger of the syringe and move the syringe plunger within a syringe barrel of the syringe. The infusion pump further includes a syringe plunger position sensor and a syringe barrel size sensor. The sensors each include a magnet positioned on the drive mechanism and a magnetic sensor array supported by the housing.