Patent ID: 8668677

Claim:
An apparatus for carrying on the body of a user to generate a vacuum for medical applications and for the vacuum therapy of wounds on a human or animal body, the apparatus comprising: a first housing part; a second housing part cooperating with said first housing part, said first and said second housing parts being separably fixed to each other by a snapping, latching, or other positive-action locking or back-gripping mechanism, which is structured for manual actuation, wherein said second housing part is a vessel for receiving body fluids and for receiving wound exudates suctioned out of the wound, said vessel being disposable after use; a vacuum-producing device disposed in or on said first housing part; a connection for a suction tube leading to the body to pass body fluids to said vessel; and a fastening mechanism, said fastening mechanism disposed, structured and dimensioned to permit the apparatus to be worn and carried on the body of the user, wherein, when the apparatus is carried on the body of the user during mobile operation thereof, said second housing part faces the body and said first housing part faces away from the body, said first and said second housing parts being disk-shaped and lying one against the other in a vertically oriented separation plane, wherein said first housing part covers said second housing part when viewed onto a visible side of said first housing part facing away from the body, thereby concealing at least 90% of a visible surface in that viewing direction or completely concealing said visible surface.