CONNECTION COMPONENT FOR A TRACHEAL CANNULA, IN PARTICULAR FOR PROTECTING AGAINST AN UNINTENTIONAL CLOSURE OF SAME

摘要

The invention relates to a connection component (10) for a tracheal cannula (57). The connection component (10) surrounds a cavity (20), and the connection component (10) is open both at a coupling region (12) of the connection component (10) as well as at an opening region (16) of the connection component (10), said opening region being located at a different location than the coupling region (12), in order to provide access to the cavity (20). The connection component (10) has a latching formation (38) at the coupling region (12), said latching formation being designed to releasably connect to a mating latching formation (60) of the tracheal cannula (57), wherein the coupling region (12) surrounds a section of the cavity, and the cavity (20) section surrounded by the coupling region (12) is designed such that a virtual coupling axis (K) passes centrally through the cavity. The coupling axis (K) defines an axial direction (a) along the course of the coupling axis, a plurality of radial directions (r) orthogonally to the course of the coupling axis, and a circumferential direction (u) circumferentially about the coupling axis, and the coupling region (12) has at least one support section (26, 28) on which the latching formation (38) and an active region (36) are arranged such that the support section (26, 28) can be moved between two different positions with different radial distances between the latching formation (38) arranged on the support section (26, 28) and the coupling axis (K) by exerting an actuation force onto the active region (36) in the radial direction on the coupling axis (K). According to the invention, the active region (36) and the latching formation (38) of the same support section (26, 28) are arranged at an axial distance (d) to each other along the coupling axis (K).