US 12,186,522 B2
Disinfecting cap
Scott Bedoe, McHenry, IL (US); James Burgess, Lake Bluff, IL (US); Brent Skupien, Hawthorn Woods, IL (US); Christopher Dalton, Mundelein, IL (US); Pere Berkowitz, Highland Park, IL (US); and David Noskowicz, Spring Grove, IL (US)
Filed by Medline Industries, Inc., Northfield, IL (US)
Filed on Jul. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/390,854.
Application 17/390,854 is a continuation of application No. 17/014,901, filed on Sep. 8, 2020, granted, now 11,464,962.
Application 17/014,901 is a continuation of application No. 15/240,301, filed on Aug. 18, 2016, granted, now 10,828,484, issued on Nov. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/216,650, filed on Sep. 10, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/208,364, filed on Aug. 21, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/208,213, filed on Aug. 21, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/208,243, filed on Aug. 21, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0353927 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 39/16 (2006.01); A61M 39/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 39/20 (2013.01) [A61M 39/16 (2013.01); A61M 2205/0205 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disinfecting cap comprising:
a housing comprising:
a bottom wall, and
a sidewall extending from the bottom wall, the sidewall surrounding an interior chamber and an opening into the interior chamber, the sidewall comprising a non-threaded interior surface extending from the bottom wall, along the sidewall, and to the opening, the interior surface comprising a deformable portion being configured to securely attach to a thread of a medical device;
a cleaning material being configured to releasably retain an antiseptic liquid, the cleaning material being positioned in the interior chamber and being separate from the deformable portion of the interior surface;
a seal being removably attached to an outer surface of the housing and extending over the interior chamber such that the cleaning material is exposed upon removal of the seal; and
a resilient retention element positioned on an interior surface of the sidewall;
wherein as the cap is attached to a port of the medical device, a thread of the port pushes past at least a portion of the retention element, and the element rebounds into a position in which the retention element engages the thread.