	US 12,005,168 B2
	Apparatus for holding a disposable medical item for treating blood, system and method of operation
Alexander Schroers, Frankfurt (DE); Sven Marten Czerwonka, Frankfurt (DE); Robin Partenfelder, Oberursel (DE); Alexander Mosdzinski, Frankfurt (DE); Lena Maria Hahn, Bonn (DE); and Jan-Willem Walde, Linden (DE)
Assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, Bad Homburg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/049,345
Filed by FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, Bad Homburg (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/060695 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 21, 2020, PCT Pub. No. WO2019/207082, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 31, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 206 633.7 (DE), filed on Apr. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0187183 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 1/16 (2006.01); A61M 1/36 (2006.01)

CPC A61M 1/1652 (2014.02) [A61M 1/3626 (2013.01); A61M 1/363 (2014.02); A61M 1/3643 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3306 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3317 (2013.01); A61M 2205/332 (2013.01); A61M 2205/6072 (2013.01); A61M 2209/082 (2013.01)]

15 Claims

12. A method for operating a disposable medical item for treating blood, wherein the disposable medical item is rotatably mounted and rotated by means of a drive device around a longitudinal axis extending substantially in a direction in which blood flows through the disposable medical item, during operation of said disposable medical item, and wherein rotation of the rotatably mounted disposable medical item around at least one rotational axis that is the longitudinal axis, is detected by a sensor device, and optionally rotation of the rotatably mounted disposable medical item around a transverse axis running perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, is detected by the sensor device, and the sensor device outputs corresponding sensor data.