Method for providing a circuit for biological liquid and circuit obtained

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9523072-B2
Application number	US-201213414843-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2012
Priority date	Jan 23, 2009
Publication date	Dec 20, 2016
Grant date	Dec 20, 2016

Abstract

A circuit for biological liquid including a bag having two films and a press. The press includes two shells that clamp the bag in a state in which pipes are formed between the films of the bag.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A circuit for biological liquid, comprising a plurality of connectors comprising routing network connectors and an inflating connector, and a network for routing liquid between said connectors, a disposable bag comprising two flexible films attached together by a seal delimiting a closed contour with said routing network connectors and inflating connector, said closed contour having an inside and an outside, said routing network connectors and inflating connector each opening respectively inside said closed contour and outside said closed contour; and a press as two shells, said shells each comprising at least one recessed channel, and said press having a first open position during which said two flexible films of said disposable bag abut each other over their lengths and are devoid of pipes, and a second position where said press clamps said disposable bag in a state in which are formed, between said two flexible films of said disposable bag, pipes of said network for routing liquid, inflated by a pneumatic inflating agent injected into said disposable bag clamped between said shells, at least one said pipe having a contour of which at least one portion is delimited exclusively by cooperation with said press, and wherein said shells comprise a surface and a recessed channel recessed with respect to said surface for said at least one pipe having a contour of which at least one portion is delimited exclusively by cooperation with said press, wherein said injecting of said pneumatic inflating agent causes said pipes to each be formed into conformity with opposing recessed channels of the two shells to define said contour of which at least one portion is delimited exclusively by cooperation with said press.

2. A circuit according to claim 1 , wherein each said recessed channel is of semi-circular cross-section.

3. A circuit according to claim 1 , wherein each said recessed channel is bordered on each side by a groove in which is accommodated a respective bead of a network of beads serving to apply said films against one another along said pipes.

4. A circuit according to claim 1 , wherein at least one said shell comprises means for welding said films along said pipes.

5. A circuit according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one filter enclosed in said bag.

6. A circuit according to claim 1 , wherein at least one said shell comprises at least one actuator of a pinch valve of one of said pipes.

7. A circuit according to claim 1 , wherein at least one said shell comprises at least one sensor of a physico-chemical value.

Assignees

• Reinbigler Rene
• Weissenbach Jean-Louis
• Emd Millipore Corp

Inventors

• Reinbigler Rene
• Weissenbach Jean-Louis

Classifications

• B01L2400/0655

  pinch valves · CPC title

• B01L2200/12

  Specific details about manufacturing devices · CPC title

• B29L2031/7148

  Blood bags, medical bags · CPC title

• B01L2400/0481

  squeezing of channels or chambers · CPC title

• Y10T137/8593

  Systems · CPC title