Patent ID: 9314562
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: A61M,B04B

Claim Text:
1. A blood separation system, comprising: a blood separation chamber configured to separate blood into at least one blood component and a different other blood component; an outlet line associated with the blood separation chamber for removing at least a portion of said at least one blood component from the blood separation chamber; a first optical sensor assembly configured to directly monitor the interior of the blood separation chamber; a second optical sensor assembly configured to monitor the contents of the outlet line and produce an output based at least in part on the light transmissivity of the contents of the outlet line; and a controller configured to select, during a blood separation procedure, only one of the first optical sensor assembly or the second optical sensor assembly for detecting the presence of said different other blood component in the at least one blood component, wherein the first optical sensor assembly is selected under a first condition in which the output has a first value and wherein the second optical sensor assembly is selected under a second condition in which the output has a second value.