IP Library Granted Patent US 7,762,289
Granted Patent B2
US 7,762,289 · App. 11/157,708 · Granted Jul 27, 2010

Method and related system of filling therapeutic gas cylinders

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Patent No.
US 7,762,289
App. No.
11/157,708
Granted
Jul 27, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and related system of filling therapeutic gas cylinders. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are a method comprising determining, by a cylinder fill device, a rated pressure of a therapeutic gas cylinder, and filling the cylinder with the cylinder fill device substantially to the rated pressure.

Claims (7)

1. A method of filling a therapeutic gas cylinder, the method comprising:

determining, by a cylinder fill device, a rated pressure of the therapeutic gas cylinder by detecting the presence of one or more apertures, dimples, grooves, or magnets associated with a post valve coupled to the therapeutic gas cylinder; and

filling the cylinder with the cylinder fill device to the rated pressure.

2. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein detecting the presence of one or more apertures, dimples, grooves, or magnets associated with a post valve coupled to the therapeutic gas cylinder comprises detecting one or more apertures through the post valve.

3. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein detecting the presence of one or more apertures, dimples, grooves, or magnets associated with a post valve coupled to the therapeutic gas cylinder comprises detecting one or more dimples on the post valve.

4. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein detecting the presence of one or more apertures, dimples, grooves, or magnets associated with a post valve coupled to the therapeutic gas cylinder comprises detecting one or more grooves on the post valve.

5. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein detecting the presence of one or more apertures, dimples, grooves, or magnets associated with a post valve coupled to the therapeutic gas cylinder comprises detecting one or more magnets coupled to the post valve.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 7, 2023
From: RESPIRONICS, INC.
To: PHILIPS RS NORTH AMERICA LLC
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