US 12,290,656 B2
Closed IV access device with y-port needle-free connector
Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Salt Lake City, UT (US); George Michel Mansour, Pomona, CA (US); and Jonathan Yeh, Diamond Bar, CA (US)
Assigned to CAREFUSION 303, INC., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by CareFusion 303, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/009,645.
Application 17/009,645 is a continuation of application No. 15/289,049, filed on Oct. 7, 2016, granted, now 10,758,720.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/247,690, filed on Oct. 28, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0398037 A1, Dec. 24, 2020
Int. Cl. A61M 39/10 (2006.01); A61M 39/16 (2006.01); A61M 39/22 (2006.01); A61M 39/24 (2006.01); A61M 39/26 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 39/10 (2013.01) [A61M 39/105 (2013.01); A61M 39/22 (2013.01); A61M 39/24 (2013.01); A61M 39/26 (2013.01); A61M 2039/1038 (2013.01); A61M 2039/1072 (2013.01); A61M 2039/1083 (2013.01); A61M 2039/1088 (2013.01); A61M 39/16 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A needle-free connector, comprising:
a housing including a first input port at an upper portion of the housing, a second input port extending along an angle from a sidewall of the upper portion of the housing, and an inner surface forming a chamber fluidly coupled to the first input port and the second input port;
a compressible sealing member longitudinally disposed in the chamber and having an uncompressed state in which the compressible sealing member seals the first input port;
a standoff feature extending across an open portion of the sidewall between the chamber and the second input port to resist the compressible sealing member from obstructing the second input port when the compressible sealing member is in a compressed state; and
an output port that is fluidly coupled to the first and second input ports.
 
4. The needle-free connector of claim 1, wherein, when the compressible sealing member is in the compressed state, a continuous fluid pathway is formed between the first input port and the output port.