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Breast cup

A breast shield and breast pump technology, applied to breast pumps, suction devices, and other medical devices, can solve the problems of not yet finding natural imitation, not finding the shape of the breast shield and pressure loading, etc.

Pending Publication Date: 2019-04-16
MEDELA HLDG AG
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[0014] Although the newer breastshields partly show a good solution for sucking close to natural nature, an optimal imitation of natural and thus an optimal shape and pressure loading of breastshields has not yet been found

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[0096] figure 1 A schematic diagram showing a human mother's breast B with a nipple W of average size N , small nipple W K and big nipples W G . The size of the nipples of different mothers ranged from about 10mm to about 24mm with an average of about 16mm. Nipple length without external influence varied from about 3mm up to about 20mm per mother with a mean value of about 7mm.

[0097] Prior art breastshields generally do not touch the nipples so that variations in the nipples of different mothers may be unnoticed. However, the teat according to the invention preferably rests on the teat and should stimulate said teat via a tight fit and radial release in order to extract milk. Preferably, the breastshield even rests only on the nipple or only additionally on the areola, but not on the surrounding breast tissue of the mother's breast. The breastshields described below are preferably usable for all the above-mentioned ranges of possible nipples, either by virtue of the f...

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The invention relates to a method for operating a breast pump unit for expressing human milk and diverse breast cups for use in said method allowing a maximised pumping output and a minimised pumpingduration per sitting. The breast cup comprises an inner chamber (5) for receiving a nipple (W) of the mother's breast and at least one outer chamber (6) which at least partially surrounds the nipple.The inner chamber (5) is pressurised at a constant pressure and the at least one outer chamber (6) at a pulsating pressure.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a breastshield for expressing human breast milk. Background technique [0002] Manually and motor-operated breast pump units for expressing human breast milk are known. The breast pump unit has a breastshield or two breastshields for sealing support on the mother's breast. The at least one breastshield is connected directly or via a suction line to a manual or motor-driven breast pump. A periodically changing vacuum is generated by means of a breast pump, which is transmitted to the breastshield in order to pump milk from the mother's breast. [0003] The breast pump unit should be able to achieve an pumping of breast milk as close as possible to the baby's natural sucking. Here, special pumping sequences with varying vacuum and pumping frequency are used. In addition, in very different embodiments, breastshields are provided which, due to the soft insert, the so-called padding, should ensure a comfortable fit again...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A61M1/06
CPCA61M1/06A61M2205/0216A61M2205/3306A61M1/066A61M2205/13A61M1/064A61M1/75A61M1/067A61M1/0697A61M1/06935A61M2210/1007
Inventor 米凯尔·拉松埃里希·芬尼格马里奥·里格特塞巴斯蒂安·赫纳彼得·菲舍尔彼得·哈特曼
Owner MEDELA HLDG AG
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