Patent ID: 9604026
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: A01N,A61M

Claim:
1. A medical carbon monoxide generator comprising: a reaction chamber holding a solid purified carbon element and providing an ingress port and egress port; a pump communicating with the ingress port to provide a source of air passing into the reaction chamber and out of the egress port; an electrically controllable heater element heating the purified carbon element in the presence of the air to generate carbon monoxide gas from the reaction of the heated purified carbon with oxygen in the air of the reaction chamber, the production of carbon monoxide consuming oxygen in the reaction chamber; a respiratory delivery appliance communicating with the egress port to provide carbon monoxide to a patient for respiration thereof; and a controller communicating with the electrically controllable heater element and the pump and executing a stored program held in a non-transient medium to control the same to produce medical purity carbon monoxide for respiration by a human being from the purified carbon element, wherein the pump, ingress port, heater element, and egress port operating together are adapted to limit oxygen from air introduced in the reaction chamber during operation of the heater to favor the production of carbon monoxide over carbon dioxide during the heating of the purified carbon element.