Patent ID: 6499617
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: A61J,B65D,Y10S

Abstract:
A rotary seal valve/container assembly for allowing access to a medical fluid contained in the container by the use of an external device equipped with a luer connector, said rotary seal valve/container assembly comprising:(a) a container having a neck portion equipped with a rigid or semi-rigid exit port sufficiently sized to connectably receive a rotary seal valve; (b) a rotary seal valve connected to the rigid or semi-rigid exit port of said container; and (c) a removable cap enclosing the rotary seal valve and the neck portion of the container to maintain the rotary seal valve in aseptic condition; wherein said rotary seal valve comprises:an elastomeric stopper having a cavity therein for receiving said rotary seal valve and being in a hermetically sealing engagement with said rigid or semi-rigid exit port of said container and said rotary seal valve; a rotary seal top insert equipped with threads and serving as a male luer connector for attachment to a female luer connector; a rotary valve bottom insert in frictionally rotational engagement with said rotary seal top insert; one or more holes in each of said top and bottom inserts alignable with each other forming a channel through which a medical fluid contained in said container is accessed, and disalignable thereby closing said channel and preventing withdrawal of said medical fluid from said container; and whereinan external device equipped with a female luer connector is releasably attached to said rotary seal top insert equipped with a male luer connector for delivering said medical fluid to a patient.