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Ambulatory infusion membrane pumpRelated Patent Categories: Pumps, Expansible Chamber Type, Inlet And Discharge Distributors At Opposite Ends Of Tubular Flexible Wall Pumping ChamberAmbulatory infusion membrane pump description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070166181, Ambulatory infusion membrane pump. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to fluid injection pumps with disposable membrane pump and tubing intended for injection of medicines, pain relief and fluids related to nursing. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Membrane injection pumps are used in many applications, as ultra small plastic pumps intended for medical applications. However, when used for portioning fluids, as medicines, with a high degree of precision, usually other pumping methods dominate the market. Such pumps are syringe or plunger pumps, as well as peristaltic pumps. [0003] Transporting fluids from a container to an injection needle with a high degree of precision is claimed as to the dosage, especially concerning new, potent medicines. Not intended leakage through tubing arrangement must be safely restricted, as when a container filled with medicine is placed above the needle, the static pressure can generate a flow if the system is not restricted against this. [0004] Examples of prior art are: [0005] U.S. Pat. No. 6,261,066, U.S. Pat. No. 6,234,992, U.S. Pat. No. 5,533,886, U.S. Pat. No. 6,203,291, WO 0028213, U.S. Pat. No. 5,478,211, U.S. Pat. No. 4,838,860, U.S. Pat. No. 5,637,093, U.S. Pat. No. 4,898,579 [0006] Previously infusion pumps for supplying fluids to patients were usually syringe type, peristaltic type, membrane type or plunge pumps. Many of these pumps are very sophisticated and sometimes very complicated, as U.S. Pat. No. 5,482,438 and very expensive for the hospitals. Others are simplified as U.S. Pat. No. 6,203,291, using an oscillating movement from semiconductors affecting a diaphragm at resonance frequency and with diffusers as controlling means in the inlet and outlet areas. Another invention uses semiconductors in a micro membrane pump, as in U.S. Pat. No. 6,261,06. U.S. Pat. No. 5,368,570 is a plurality of membrane pumps. [0007] U.S. Pat. No. 4,898,579 is a dual chamber piston and cylinder pump which uses a disposable cassette and with two cylinders can achieve an almost uninterrupted fluid feeding. However the cassette is with its arrangements of check valves a little bit complicated, and the amount of material in the cassette is significantly high. When initially filling up the pump, de-airing obviously will become problematic. [0008] Document U.S. Pat. No. 4,846,636 describes a piston pump with a complicated construction, where it is very difficult to de-air a pumped fluid In a controlled way. The design of this pump requires sensors for detecting air in the fluid. The check valves of this pump are further built-in into the pump house of the piston pump. [0009] In document WO 99/21596 there is disclosed an infusion pump with check valves built-in into the pump house, whereby there are also in this disclosure small possibilities to watch air in the pump system. This pump has a large dead space, which means that a substantial amount of fluid is interlocked into the pump when a pumping operation is ended. The principle of this infusion pump is based on a pumping mechanism using a semi-membrane and a semi-piston. [0010] A careful control of the pumped amount of fluid by use of different piston stroke lengths are not possible in any of the designs of U.S. Pat. No. 4,846,636 and WO 99/21596. [0011] None of the preceding pumps unites disposability together with high precision dosages, safety against leakage, material saving and an uncomplicated concept as in our invention. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0012] The present invention is a membrane pump consisting of two main bodies: the computer with its housing and the administration set. The membrane pump works distinctly with equal membrane movements repeated as a decided position of the stroke. A rotational electric motor with a gear is positioned in the housing, and the outgoing shaft moves a screw in connection with a threaded plunger rod and at the other end in connection with the membrane tap. At the end cover on the housing the membrane pump is snapped into an attachment consisting of a guide rail and a shoulder on the pump house, which easily is snapped on when the pump house is in exact position. The electrical motor has a permanent magnet and a sensor which registrates each revolution of the motor and communicates signals to the computer, which registers each signal in forward respectively backward mode of the driving motor, thus counting each revolution and registers the exact position of the screw on the plunger rod. [0013] With a high revolution electrical motordrive connected to a gear the advance of the screw works in a very high degree of precision, independent of accidental wear. Accordingly the membrane moves with exact precision accordingly to ordered revolutions rolled by the electrical motor, and the dosage can be controlled with each stroke of the plunger rod. [0014] In a system with tubes and pump, elastic effects can arise, for instance when the pump suddenly is cut off (which happens when the polarity reversal activates for intended reversal of the plunger rod). When the pressure leaves the system, elastic effects arise; the volume of the system decreases. In order to prevent unintended through flow in the system according to such elastic effects, check valves are positioned in each end of the tubing; the inflow check valve close to the fluid container and the outflow check valve close to the needle arrangement. [0015] Visual control of the pump function occurs with transparent valve housing at the inflow check valve with a colored cone indicating the working of the pump and visible at a distance of at least some meters. [0016] The-to-and fro movement of the pump is driven by an electric motor in connection with a screw-driven feed. Making the pitch optimal, the feed becomes very accurate; e.g. when back-feeding through reversing of the electric motor by reverse polarity, it is very important that the movement is under strict control and not too fast, when gas otherwise could become extricated out of the fluid (cavitation). A processor is used to control the motor drive. The processor has a control puls circuit which reverses the motor drive by reverse polarity. The processor registers the working speed and controls the ordered revolutions and when exact feeding distance of the piston is achieved. The movement of the piston and as well pumped quantity is thus controlled in both directions with high degree of precision. [0017] The processor has a box with a key set and a display intended for controlling the dosage and watching different functions as for the safety. The box also has rechargeable batteries. A patient needing fluid, drugs or pain killers by infusion, can carry the complete pump set conveniently and freely move him without handling a stand, used for the drip chamber. Our pump does not need the static pressure from the height with which the fluid container is held by the stand. The pump generates this pressure by pumping. Thus it is suitable to place the fluid container where it is convenient. [0018] Instead of counting the drips in the drip chamber and throttling the tubing, you just order right dosage on display by using the keys. If you want to watch the pump working, you look at the transparent check valve house close to the fluid container and at the pulsating, abovementioned cone. A more advanced model you order the dosage with a bar code and a bar code reader. [0019] When ambulance transports are acquired, as by accidents or transporting patients, our device is even handier because of independence of a stand. The device can also be used positioned on the side of a patient in bed. [0020] An infusion pump must be reliable and stop working, if divergence from normal working happens, e.g. if the fluid encounters higher or lower resistance and the pump thus meets occlusion or very low pressure e.g. when air is in the system. Those circumstances must be readable and the pump must stop if not allowed deviations happen. If such deviations happen, variations of the motor current is watched by the control system and as the electric motor drive is pulse driven, the relations between pulses, current and revolution is programmed in the control system, which signals and stops the motor drive within certain limits. The display writes which kind of deviation happened. Pressure sensors are not necessary to use to watch the correct working of the pump. [0021] If gases or air are present in the tube or pump regions, the inlet check valve has measures for de-airing the system and press the air back to the liquid container. In a preferred achievement the cone of the check valve is hollow and floats on the liquid where-by it presses the air back through the seat face. The last amount of air leaks back to the liquid container by a slit on the cone, which slit is wide enough for gaseous fluids, but to narrow for liquids to pass. The system is de-aired. When larger amounts of air is present, as with glass containers, an outlet with an air filter is arranged in the housing of the inlet check valve. [0022] The precision of the dosage of the membrane pump is not restricted because of small dimensions, which precision becomes extremely high compared to e.g. a peristaltic pump, which type is most frequently used with ambulatory pumps. The pump house and the details of the administration set is in a preferred accomplishment made of as drug certified thermo plastic, produced with precision in many units. Continue reading about Ambulatory infusion membrane pump... Full patent description for Ambulatory infusion membrane pump Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Ambulatory infusion membrane pump patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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