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

Assignee: Respironics, Inc.
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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 (7)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 7, 2023
From: RESPIRONICS, INC.
To: PHILIPS RS NORTH AMERICA LLC
Reel/Frame 063012/0881 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 18, 2010
From: ACOBA, LLC
To: CHAD THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Reel/Frame 024400/0951 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 17, 2010
From: CHAD THERAPEUTICS, INC.
To: RESPIRONICS, INC.
Reel/Frame 024390/0229 →
GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS Recorded Aug 20, 2007
From: CHAD THERAPEUTICS, INC.
To: CALLIOPE CAPITAL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 019714/0154 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVE ERRONEOUSLY LISTED ASSIGNOR KEVIN G. MCCULLOH PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 016625 FRAME 0137. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE REMOVAL OF ERRONEOUSLY LISTED ASSIGNOR KEVIN G. MCCULLOH. Recorded Jun 26, 2006
From: AYLSWORTH, ALONZO C.; SPECTOR, LAWRENCE C.
To: ACOBA, LLC
Reel/Frame 017844/0907 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 23, 2006
From: MCCULLOH, KEVIN G.
To: CHAD THERAPEUTIC, INC.
Reel/Frame 017841/0252 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 6, 2005
From: AYLSWORTH, ALONZO C; SPECTOR, LAWRENCE C; MCCULLOH, KEVIN G
To: ACOBA, LLC.
Reel/Frame 016625/0137 →
Continuity (1)
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