US 12,201,582 B2
System, method, and device utilizing reversible connector
Bradley Chiga, Brookline, MA (US); Vinit Patel, Milford, MA (US); and Phillip Shaltis, Sharon, MA (US)
Assigned to KPR U.S., LLC, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by KPR U.S., LLC, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on May 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/328,846.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/028,819, filed on May 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0361522 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. A61H 9/00 (2006.01); F16L 37/56 (2006.01); F16L 39/00 (2006.01); F16L 39/02 (2006.01); F16L 37/12 (2006.01)
CPC A61H 9/0092 (2013.01) [F16L 37/56 (2013.01); F16L 39/02 (2013.01); A61H 2201/164 (2013.01); A61H 2201/165 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5071 (2013.01); F16L 37/12 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A compression garment selectively engageable with and operable by a controller for inflation via a reversible connector, the compression garment comprising:
a plurality of bladders;
a compression garment tubing comprising a plurality of garment tubes in fluid communication with the plurality of bladders at a first compression garment tubing end and having a second compression garment tubing end opposite the first compression garment tubing end; and,
a first connector portion located at the second compression garment tubing end;
wherein the controller controls communication with a source of fluid flow via a controller tubing having a plurality of controller tubes in selective communication with the source of the fluid flow at a first controller tubing end and having a second controller tubing end opposite the first controller tubing end;
wherein the controller tubing has a second connector portion located at the second controller tubing end;
wherein the first connector portion and the second connector portion are selectively, reversibly connectable together to form the reversible connector through rotation of the second connector portion about an axis parallel to the fluid flow resulting in the reversible connector being in a first orientation or a second orientation;
wherein the first connector portion and the second connector portion are rectangular, elliptical, or oblong shaped;
wherein a plurality of fluid flow passageways extend within each of the first connector portion and the second connector portion to form a first fluid flow channel when the first connector portion is coupled to the second connector portion in the first orientation;
wherein the plurality of fluid flow passageways extend within each of the first connector portion and the second connector portion to form a second fluid flow channel when the first connector portion is coupled to the second connector portion in the second orientation; and
wherein a fluid flow between a first one of the plurality of controller tubes and a first one of the plurality of compression garment tubes is communicated in a first fluid flow direction via the first fluid flow channel when the first connector portion and the second connector portion are connected in the first orientation, and wherein the fluid flow through the first one of the plurality of compression garment tubes and the first one of the plurality of controller tubes is communicated in the first fluid flow direction via the second fluid flow channel when the first connector portion and the second connector portion are connected in the second orientation.