US 12,280,012 B2
Reconstitution vial mixing apparatus
Michael A. Merchant, Franklin, MA (US); and Hsi Chin Tsai, Franklin, MA (US)
Assigned to Summit International Medical Technologies, Inc., Franklin, MA (US)
Filed by Michael A. Merchant, Franklin, MA (US); and Hsi Chin Tsai, Franklin, MA (US)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/986,206.
Application 17/986,206 is a continuation of application No. 16/575,442, filed on Sep. 19, 2019, granted, now 11,497,684.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/879,455, filed on Jul. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/834,915, filed on Apr. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0070577 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. A61J 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 1/2089 (2013.01) [A61J 1/201 (2015.05); A61J 1/2058 (2015.05)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intravenous (IV) inline medication dispensing device, comprising:
an IV connector having a bag spike adapted for inline connection between a fluid reservoir and an IV port adapted for receiving an IV line to a patient via a controlled flow path;
a vial receptacle fluidically coupled to a transfer channel for medicinal transport;
the transfer channel forming a continuous bifurcated junction body and IV connector extending from the bag spike to the IV port, thereby defining the controlled flow path;
a partition in the bag spike defining a fluidic separation between the transfer channel and the controlled flow path; and
a tapered end on the bag spike adapted for engaging the fluid reservoir to establish fluidic communication between the fluid reservoir and each of the controlled flow path and the transfer channel, the bag spike having first and second orifices, at least one of the first and second orifices located on a side of the tapered end, the first and second orifices defining respective fluidic connections from an engaged fluid reservoir to the controlled flow path and the transfer channel.