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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
May. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Becton Dickinson and Company Limited, Dun Laoghaire, IE;
Inventor:
Andrew Wong, East Hanover, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Becton Dickinson and Company Limited, Dun Laoghaire, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 39/10 (2006.01); A61J 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 39/1011 (2013.01); A61J 1/2096 (2013.01); A61M 2039/1033 (2013.01); A61M 2039/1044 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49948 (2015.01);
Abstract
A medical connector includes a body having a distal end, a proximal end, and a sidewall extending between the distal end and the proximal end, a helical thread extending radially outward from a surface of the sidewall and comprising a crest portion, flank portions, and a root portion with the flank portions connecting the crest portion to the root portion, and at least one deformable protrusion extending radially outward from the root portion of the helical thread.