Medical bag handling system and medical bag holding cassette

{
  "publication_number": "US10138025B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Medical bag handling system and medical bag holding cassette",
  "abstract": "A medical bag handling system (10) includes a plurality of cassettes (16) capable of holding bags for blood (14), and connecting means (32) capable of connecting one cassette (16) and another cassette (16). Accordingly, the cassettes (16) can be easily connected, and the plurality of bags for blood (14) supported by the respective cassettes (16) can be collectively handled.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A medical bag handling system comprising: a plurality of medical bag holding cassettes at least some of said cassettes having a box shape with a thickness between front and rear sides and having planar areas on said front and rear sides; a coupling on at least one planar area on at least one cassette wherein the coupling is a hole or recess; and a mating coupling on at least one planar area of another cassette, said coupling and said mating coupling being adapted to connect with each other, wherein the mating coupling is a cylinder and wherein the cylinder has a tip cylinder portion having a first diameter and a base cylinder portion having a second diameter said second diameter being larger than said first diameter and wherein said base cylinder portion has a hole having an internal diameter coinciding with an external diameter of a tip cylinder portion on another cassette.",
    "2. The medical bag handling system according to claim 1, further comprising a connecting means configured from a device capable of holding the plurality of medical bag holding cassettes in a state where the planar areas of adjacent cassettes face each other.",
    "3. The medical bag handling system of claim 1 wherein said tip cylinder portion has a circumferential claw at a forward most side of said tip cylinder portion and wherein said hole in said base cylinder portion has a projecting portion."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "The present invention relates to a medical bag handling system and a medical bag holding cassette configured at the time of handling a plurality of medical bags in medical institutions.\n\nIn recent technologies of blood transfusion, blood component transfusion is employed, in which components of blood (whole blood) obtained from blood donation and the like are separated, and only a component necessary for a patient is supplied. The blood component transfusion enables reduction of burdens or side effects on a patient's circulatory system and efficient use of the donated blood.\n\nIn the separation of the blood components, a centrifuge machine disclosed in the specification of U.S. Pat. No. 6,910,998 centrifugally separates blood into a light supernatant (platelet poor plasma) fraction, a heavy precipitation (concentrated red blood cell) fraction, and buffy coat formed therebetween. These centrifugally separated components are transferred to and preserved in predetermined medical bags, using a blood bag system configured from a plurality of preservation bag (medical bags) and a plurality of tubes.\n\nIncidentally, when the blood bag system is directly attached to the centrifuge machine, a plurality of medical bags and tubes may be entangled in a complicated manner, and attachment may become difficult and workability may be decreased. Therefore, the present applicant has proposed, as disclosed in JP 2012-510299 W, the medical bag in which the whole blood is stored and a part of the tubes connected to the medical bag are handled by being fixed and held to a cassette.",
  "cpc": [
    "B65D 33/14",
    "A01N 1/0263",
    "A01N 1/146",
    "A61J 1/16",
    "A61M 1/0209",
    "A61M 1/0286",
    "F16B 17/00"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "A01N 1/02",
    "A61J 1/16",
    "A61M 1/02",
    "B65D 33/14",
    "F16B 17/00"
  ],
  "assignees": [
    "Terumo Corp"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Masahiko Nakamura"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2013-04-05",
  "publication_date": "2018-11-27",
  "grant_date": "2018-11-27",
  "priority_date": "2013-04-05",
  "application_number": "US-201314779253-A",
  "family_id": "51657919",
  "cited_by_count": 18,
  "citations": [
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    "JP2008503321A",
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}