IP Library Granted Patent US 12,295,912
Granted Patent B2
US 12,295,912 · App. 16/769,936 · Granted May 13, 2025

Port-equipped bag and cap-equipped bag

Inventors: Atsushi Mio (Yokohama, JP); Toyoaki Suzuki (Yokohama, JP); Junpei Nomura (Yokohama, JP); Kaho Toyabe (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: ZACROS Corporation
A61J1/1475A61J1/12A61J1/1412A61J1/1468A61J1/18
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Patent No.
US 12,295,912
App. No.
16/769,936
Granted
May 13, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A port-equipped bag includes a bag body formed in a bag shape with a sheet, and a cylindrical port member attached to the bag body, and an inner plug and a cap can be attached to the port member. The port member includes an attaching target portion that is covered by the cap in a case in which the cap is attached thereto and an annular lip protruding outward from the port member. The lip has an annular engagement surface facing the bag body, and the engagement surface has an angle of 45° to 135° with respect to an outer peripheral surface of the attaching target portion in a cross section in an axial direction of the attaching target portion.

Claims (22)

1. A port-equipped bag comprising:

a bag body that is formed in a bag shape with a sheet and has an accommodation portion therein; and

a cylindrical port member that is attached to the bag body and has one end communicating with the accommodation portion and the other end at which an opening exposed outside the bag is formed,

wherein an inner plug and a cap for pressing the inner plug are attachable to the port member,

the port member includes an attaching target portion that is covered by the cap in a case in which the cap is attached to the port member and an annular lip that is formed at a peripheral edge of the opening and protrudes outward from the port member,

the lip has an annular engagement surface facing the bag body, and

the engagement surface has an angle of 45° to less than 90° with respect to an outer peripheral surface of the attaching target portion in a cross section in an axial direction of the attaching target portion and the engagement surface is in an overhung state

a tensile elastic modulus of the sheet is 550 MPa to 1500 MPa,

a thickness of the sheet is 250 μm to 400 μm,

a product (M×T) of the tensile elastic modulus M (MPa) and the sheet thickness T (μm) of the sheet is 137,500 or more and 300,000 or less,

the port member is formed of a synthetic resin having a bending elastic modulus of 140 MPa or more and 2000 MPa or less.

2. A cap-equipped bag comprising:

the port-equipped bag according to claim 1 ; and

an inner plug and a cap for pressing the inner plug that are attachable to the port member,

wherein the cap includes a top plate portion, a cylindrical skirt portion that stands upright from a periphery of the top plate portion to be able to cover the attaching target portion, and a plurality of engagement pieces provided at a lower end portion of an inner surface of the skirt portion,

the engagement piece has a tip end portion that protrudes toward the top plate portion and is elastically accessible to an inner peripheral surface of the skirt portion, and

in a case in which the cap is attached to the port member, the tip end portion of the engagement piece comes into contact with the engagement surface of the lip to be engageable with the engagement surface.

3. The cap-equipped bag according to claim 2 , wherein an opening is formed in the top plate portion of the cap, and a seal that closes the opening is detachably fixed to the top plate portion, so that the opening can be exposed by detaching the seal.

4. The cap-equipped bag according to claim 2 , wherein the accommodation portion of the bag body is aseptically filled with contents containing at least one selected from the group consisting of plasma fractionated preparations, enzymes, blood coagulation fibrinolytic system factors, hormones, vaccines, interferons, erythropoietins, cytokines, antibodies, and fusion proteins, and the cap is attached to the port member to seal the contents.

5. The cap-equipped bag according to claim 2 , wherein the accommodation portion of the bag body is aseptically filled with contents containing at least one of albumin preparations and globulin preparations, and the cap is attached to the port member to seal the contents.

6. The port-equipped bag according to claim 1 , wherein a circle-annular flange portion having a constant width is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the port member at a constant distance from the lip, and in a case in which the cap is attached to the port member, an opening end of the cap and the flange portion face each other with a gap, and a height of the flange portion from a surface of the port member is about 30% to 150% of a height of an outer peripheral surface of the cap when the cap is attached to the port member.

7. The port-equipped bag according to claim 1 , wherein the bending elastic modulus of the synthetic resin forming the port member is 140 MPa to 1,140 MPa.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 25, 2025
From: FUJIMORI KOGYO CO., LTD.
To: ZACROS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 070627/0953 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 5, 2020
From: MIO, ATSUSHI; SUZUKI, TOYOAKI; NOMURA, JUNPEI; TOYABE, KAHO
To: FUJIMORI KOGYO CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 053969/0402 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-235604 · Dec 7, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200397657A1 · Dec 24, 2020
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