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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Acacia, Inc., Brea, CA (US);
Inventors:
Dongchul D. Hyun, Brea, CA (US);
Michael T. Fleury, Brea, CA (US);
Assignee:
MEDELA HOLDING AG, Baar, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 7/12 (2006.01); A61J 15/00 (2006.01); A61M 5/44 (2006.01); A61M 5/145 (2006.01); A61G 7/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61J 15/0026 (2013.01); A61M 5/44 (2013.01); A61G 7/0503 (2013.01); A61J 2200/42 (2013.01); A61M 5/1456 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3368 (2013.01); A61M 2205/36 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3653 (2013.01); A61M 2205/8206 (2013.01); A61M 2210/1042 (2013.01); A61M 2240/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A heating system for heating neonate nutritional liquid, including a heater and a control module. The heater includes a heating portion having serpentine shaped grooves for receiving a tube. The tube may be a serpentine feeding tube module, having a serpentine tube portion, or a serpentine feeding tube cassette, having a serpentine tube portion covered by a rigidly attached polymeric sheet. The serpentine feeding tube cassette may include a thermocouple to measure the temperature of the warmed nutritional liquid as it exits the cassette.