Patent ID: 8968271
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: A61M,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A connector for medical infusion lines and transfusion lines, comprising: a tubular body having at one end a male connector including an inner tubular element and an outer hollow element, which is internally threaded and can be coupled by screwing to a complementary female connector; an outer maneuvering sleeve coupled in unidirectional rotation to the body of the connector in a first direction corresponding to screwing of said male connector with respect to said complementary female connector; and said outer maneuvering sleeve being free to turn in a second opposite direction relative to the first direction and formed by two parts coupled together on said body of the connector; said outer sleeve comprising two radial half-shells; said tubular body and said outer sleeve mutually displaceable axially between a first position and a second position, said tubular body and said outer sleeve coupled together in said first position in unidirectional rotation in said first direction of screwing of said male connector; said sleeve comprising elastically sprung appendages, said appendages tending to keep said outer sleeve and said body normally in said first position; and said body and said sleeve comprising coupling members coupling in rotation said sleeve and said tubular body in the second opposite direction corresponding to unscrewing of said male connector.