BREATHING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

Organization Name

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited

Inventor(s)

Rachel Adeline Miller of Auckland NZ

Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon of Auckland NZ

Andre Van Schalkwyk of Auckland NZ

Ella Marie Meisel of Auckland NZ

BREATHING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18939099 titled 'BREATHING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

Original Abstract Submitted

An apparatus for delivering a flow of gas has a housing, a cover, and a magnetic coupling system arranged to magnetically couple the cover-to the housing. Each of the housing and cover having complementary locating features, the locating features being adapted to locate and align the cover and the apparatus relative to each other to allow for the magnetic coupling. The apparatus also has a handle movably connected to the housing and is movable from a first position to a second position. The housing and the handle comprise complementary interlock features arranged to engage with each other when upward force is applied to the handle in the second position, and the interlock features are disengaged from each other when the handle is in the second position but upward force is not applied to the handle.