Patent ID: 7959715
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: A61J,A61M,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A system for managing air bubbles, the system comprising: a reservoir having a wall defining an interior volume for containing fluidic media, the reservoir having a port for expelling fluidic media from the interior volume of the reservoir, the wall of the reservoir defining one or more air passages that extend out of the interior volume of the reservoir through the wall of the reservoir; a plunger head moveable within the reservoir, the plunger head arranged such that the interior volume of the reservoir is on one side of the plunger head and a chamber of the reservoir is on an opposite side of the plunger head from the interior volume of the reservoir, the plunger head in contact with fluidic media when fluidic media is in the interior volume of the reservoir; and one or more filters, each of the one or more filters located in a respective air passage of the one or more air passages, each of the one or more filters configured to allow air in the interior volume of the reservoir to pass through the filter and to exit the reservoir through the respective air passage of the one or more air passages as the plunger head moves within the reservoir to expel fluidic media from the interior volume of the reservoir out the port of the reservoir.