Patent ID: 7677605

Claim:
An inflatable medical device hose-clamp system for securing a hose to an air connector, the system comprising: a fitting having an internal stem and an external stem, the internal stem having a predetermined length and an outer diameter configured to hermetically engage an inside diameter of an end of the hose to the predetermined length; a cradle configured to receive the internal stem and the end of the hose, the cradle comprising: opposing locking protrusions within the cradle and radially extending towards a center of the cradle, a top of each locking protrusion spaced from a top of another by less than the outer diameter of the hose, and a seal positioned from the locking protrusions at substantially the length of the internal stem and configured to hermetically engage the external stem, the locking protrusions configured to crimp the outside diameter of the hose at an end of the internal stem opposite the external stem when the external stem is received by the seal and the hose and internal stem are received within the cradle; and wherein the cradle is a portion of an air connector configured to hermetically engage an inflation port of a garment for use in pump therapy for enhancing venous and arterial blood flow of a human foot, the hose providing air to the port.