Patent ID: 6460592
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: A61M,B29C,B29L,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A tube connecting apparatus including:a first tube holder provided with a pair of holding members for holding a plurality of flexible tubes; a second tube holder provided with a pair of holding members for holding the plurality of flexible tubes, one or both of the first tube holder and the second tube holder including a pair of rotatable clamping members for holding the tubes, the clamping members including separable pieces disposed in rotational symmetry; cutting and connecting means for heating and melting the plurality of flexible tubes held in the first tube holder and the second tube holder to cut the tubes by a heated cutting plate which is moved between the first tube holder and the second tube holder and to connect the tubes cut by the cutting plate by contacting cut end faces of the cut tubes held in the first tube holder with those of the cut tubes held in the second tube holder, the cut tubes to be connected being parts of originally different tubes; and rotation preventing means for preventing rotation of the clamping members being in predetermined positions in the respective holding members while the pair of clamping members are in a state of not holding the plurality of flexible tubes.