US 11,679,223 B2
Ventilator airflow splitter
Tristan Charles Kitchin, San Diego, CA (US); Palmer Duston Hayward, San Diego, CA (US); Daniel Sean Jennings, San Diego, CA (US); Chandler James Petrovich Flynn, San Diego, CA (US); Annie Yu-Wen Lin, San Diego, CA (US); and Eric William Goulet, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US)
Filed by Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/189,382.
Prior Publication US 2022/0280742 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 16/00 (2006.01); A61M 16/08 (2006.01); A61M 16/20 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01)
CPC A61M 16/0875 (2013.01) [A61M 16/20 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3334 (2013.01); A61M 2207/00 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A ventilator airflow splitter, comprising:
at least two connectors extending axially through at least two channels starting from a port insert of a single inlet connector and terminating at a port of each of the at least two connectors, wherein the at least two connectors merge into the single inlet connector where the single inlet connector includes an internal cross-splitter individually dividing each of the at least two connectors internally, thereby separating the airflow between each of the at least two connectors such that the air is incapable of moving between connectors;
gussets wherein each of the at least two connectors have gussets individually attached and the gussets merge at the single inlet connector; and
wherein each of the at least two connectors are configured to be operatively connected to medical equipment at the ports and at the port insert of the single inlet connector.