Patent ID: 11964083
Assignee: NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An extracorporeal circulation cassette, comprising:
a blood circuit formed of a flexible tube and including a blood tube access portion which is configured to be slidably inserted into a cassette slot of an apparatus;
first and second panels configured to contact each other in a unified configuration by sandwiching the blood circuit from both sides and having rigidity, wherein the first panel comprises a recess, the second panel comprises a projection, wherein in the unified configuration, the projection extends into at least a portion of the recess; and
a window formed at a part slidably inserted into the cassette slot of at least one of the first and second panels, wherein
the blood tube access portion of the blood circuit stored in a space formed by the first and second panels is disposed at the window, and
a part of the blood circuit other than the blood tube access portion is exposed from the cassette slot when the extracorporeal circulation cassette is in an inserted configuration in the cassette slot,
wherein the window has an opening in at least one of the first panel and the second panel,
wherein the flexible tube extends through a tube opening of at least one of the first panel and the second panel between the first panel and the second panel, in the unified configuration, and
wherein the tube opening is between the opening and a proximal edge of at least one of the first panel and the second panel.