US 12,029,848 B2
Ventilator apparatus and method
Kenneth Taylor, Pitt Town (AU); Simon Robert Cork, Wollstonecraft (AU); Jonathan Huw Thomas, Lilyfield (AU); Eva Ng, Erskineville (AU); Benjamin John Leavens, Woollahra (AU); Enrico Brambilla, Milan (IT); Frank Van Regteren, Sydney (AU); Philippe Auguste Chalvignac, Moissy Cramayel (FR); Zdzislaw Antoni Ziolkowski, Earlwood (AU); Arthur Kin-Wai Yee, Sydney (AU); Geoff Crumblin, Baulkham Hills (AU); and David Creusot, Sydney (AU)
Assigned to RESMED PARIS SAS, (FR)
Filed by RESMED PARIS SAS, Moissy-Cramayel (FR)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/124,339.
Application 15/485,497 is a division of application No. 13/624,167, filed on Sep. 21, 2012, granted, now 9,649,459.
Application 17/124,339 is a continuation of application No. 15/485,497, filed on Apr. 12, 2017, granted, now 10,898,664.
Application 13/624,167 is a continuation in part of application No. 13/613,958, filed on Sep. 13, 2012, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/539,258, filed on Sep. 26, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0100966 A1, Apr. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 16/08 (2006.01); A61M 16/00 (2006.01); A61M 16/10 (2006.01); A61M 16/12 (2006.01); A61M 16/20 (2006.01); A61M 39/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 16/0066 (2013.01) [A61M 16/0069 (2014.02); A61M 16/0858 (2014.02); A61M 16/0875 (2013.01); A61M 16/107 (2014.02); A61M 16/125 (2014.02); A61M 16/203 (2014.02); A61M 16/205 (2014.02); A61M 2016/0027 (2013.01); A61M 2016/0042 (2013.01); A61M 2016/1025 (2013.01); A61M 2039/1027 (2013.01); A61M 2039/1044 (2013.01); A61M 2205/128 (2013.01); A61M 2205/18 (2013.01); A61M 2205/42 (2013.01); A61M 2205/502 (2013.01); A61M 2205/8206 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coupler for a gas routing module of a respiratory treatment apparatus, the coupler comprising:
a coupler body with a plurality of pneumatic channels, each of the plurality of pneumatic channels being defined separately within and throughout the coupler body,
first and second port connectors, the first and second port connectors configured on the coupler body for connection to the respiratory treatment apparatus at a ventilator connection end of the coupler body;
first and second conduits, each of the first and second conduits defined separately, the first and second conduits integrated with the coupler body and configured as the plurality of pneumatic channels linked to the first and second port connectors respectively; and
an alignment protuberant of the coupler body, the alignment protuberant configured to limit orientation of the first and second port connectors to only one connection configuration with the respiratory treatment apparatus.