Apparatus, system and method for fluid delivery

• US 10,188,787 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2009
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deka Products Limited Partnership
• Original Assignee: Deka Products Limited Partnership
• Inventors: Lanigan, Richard J., Foo, Bright Chong Khuang, Kamen, Dean
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimbouski, Ariana
• Application Number:
  US12/649,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20100198182A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,317 Days
• Field of Search: 604 65, 604 67, 604118, 604131, 604132, 604151-153, 604246, 604247, 604259, 604406, 6048901
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/20 Arrangements for transferring or mixing fluids, e.g. from vial to syringe
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14268 with a reusable and a disposable component
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/0266 Shape memory materials
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3331 Pressure; Flow
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3375 Acoustical, e.g. ultrasonic, measuring means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3393 by weighing the reservoir
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3515 using magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3546 Range
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3576 with non implanted data transmission devices, e.g. using external transmitter or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/59 Aesthetic features, e.g. distraction means to prevent fears of child patients
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6018 providing set-up signals for the apparatus configuration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/70 with testing or calibration facilities
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/7536 allowing gas passage, but preventing liquid passage, e.g. liquophobic, hydrophobic, water-repellent membranes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8237 Charging means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/045 for filling, e.g. for filling reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/086 Docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1413 Modular systems comprising interconnecting elements
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 : Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 : adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14248 : of the skin patch type
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16809 : by repeated filling and emptying of an intermediate volume pressure infusion using positive displacement pumps A61M5/142
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16886 : for measuring fluid flow rate, i.e. flowmeters
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/086 : using an auxiliary pressure to cooperate with the diaphragm or bellows
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 7/0647 : the plurality of throttling means being arranged in series
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 7/0676 : by action on flow sources G05D7/0688, G05D7/0694 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/273 : Adaptation for carrying or wearing by persons or animals
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/265 : Open ring dipoles; Circular dipoles

Abstract

A fill adapter system for an infusion pump assembly. The system includes a reusable fill adapter base, the base including a volume control mechanism to adjust an available fill volume of a reservoir of the infusion pump assembly and a pump mechanism configured to pump air into a fluid vial. The system also includes a vial adapter assembly including a first needle configured to penetrate a septum of the fluid vial for fluidly coupling the pump mechanism to the fluid vial and a second needle having a first end configured to penetrate the septum of the fluid vial and a second end configured to penetrate a septum of the reservoir of the infusion pump assembly to allow transfer of fluid from the fluid vial to the reservoir of the infusion pump assembly in response to air being pumped into the fluid vial and a needle carriage adapted to carry the first needle and the second needle, wherein the needle carriage slidably attached to the interior of the vial adapter assembly, wherein the needle carriage adapted to slide from a vial end of the vial adapter to a receptacle end of the vial adapter.

Claims

1. A fill adapter system for an infusion pump assembly comprising:

a reusable fill adapter base configured to releasably engage a reservoir assembly of the infusion pump assembly, the base comprising;

a volume control mechanism comprising a turn dial to adjust an available fill volume of a reservoir of the infusion pump assembly; and

a pump mechanism configured to pump air into a fluid vial; and

a vial adapter assembly comprising;

at least two vial fingers having a spring force attached to the interior of the housing and a bent portion and configured to maintain the position of the fluid vial wherein the fluid vial overcomes the spring force, wherein when the vial adapter is attached to the fluid vial, the bent portion and the top portion of the fluid vial are not in contact and a predetermined length of separation distance is maintained between the bent portion and a top portion of the fluid vial comprising a fluid vial septum;

a first needle configured to penetrate the fluid vial septum for fluidly coupling the pump mechanism to the fluid vial;

a second needle having a first end configured to penetrate the fluid vial septum and a second end configured to penetrate a reservoir septum of the infusion pump assembly to allow transfer of fluid from the fluid vial to the reservoir of the infusion pump assembly in response to air being pumped into the fluid vial; and

a needle carriage adapted to carry the first needle and the second needle, wherein the needle carriage slidably attached to the interior of the vial adapter assembly, wherein the needle carriage adapted to slide from a vial end of the vial adapter to a receptacle end of the vial adapter,

wherein when the fluid vial is removed from the vial adapter, the fluid vial first moves the predetermined length of separation distance and the bent portion catches the top portion of the fluid vial, and wherein a tip of a needle is removed from the fluid in the fluid vial and is located inside the fluid vial septum, whereby the fluid in the fluid vial will not continue to flow when the vial adapter is being removed from the fluid vial.

2. The fill adapter of claim 1 wherein the vial adapter assembly further comprising a hydrophobic filter within a fluid path of the first needle.

3. The fill adapter of claim 1 wherein the volume control mechanism further comprising a push plate, wherein the turn dial actuates the push plate and wherein the push plate adjusts the available fill volume of a reservoir of the infusion pump assembly.

4. The filling system of claim 1 further comprising a weight scale, the weight scale determining the weight of the infusion pump assembly before filling a volume of fluid and the weight scale determining the weight of the infusion pump assembly after the reservoir is filled to a volume.

5. A filling system for an infusion pump assembly comprising:

a reusable fill adapter base configured to releasably engage a reservoir assembly of the infusion pump assembly, the base comprising;

a volume control mechanism comprising a turn dial configured to adjust an available fill volume of a reservoir of the infusion pump assembly; and

a pump mechanism configured to pump air into a fluid vial via a first needle, the first needle configured to penetrate a fluid vial septum for fluidly coupling the pump mechanism to the fluid vial;

at least two vial fingers having a spring force attached to the interior of the housing and a bent portion and configured to maintain the position of the fluid vial wherein the fluid vial overcomes the spring force, wherein when the vial adapter is attached to the fluid vial, the bent portion and the top portion of the fluid vial are not in contact and a predetermined length of separation distance is maintained between the bent portion and the fluid vial septum; and

a second needle having a first end configured to penetrate the fluid vial septum and a second end configured to penetrate a reservoir septum of the infusion pump assembly to allow transfer of fluid from the fluid vial to the reservoir of the infusion pump assembly in response to air being pumped into the fluid vial,

wherein when the fluid vial is removed from the vial adapter, the fluid vial first moves the predetermined length of separation distance and the bent portion catches the top portion of the fluid vial, and wherein a tip of a needle is removed from the fluid in the fluid vial and is located inside the fluid vial septum, whereby the fluid in the fluid vial will not continue to flow when the vial adapter is being removed from the fluid vial.

6. The filling system of claim 5 wherein the volume control mechanism further comprising a push plate, wherein the turn dial actuates the push plate and wherein the push plate adjusts the available fill volume of a reservoir of the infusion pump assembly.

7. The filling system of claim 5 further comprising a weight scale, the weight scale determining the weight of the infusion pump assembly before filling a volume of fluid and the weight scale determining the weight of the infusion pump assembly after the reservoir is filled to a volume.

8. A vial adapter comprising:

a housing having a vial end configured to receive a vial and a receptacle end configured to attach to a fill adapter base and interior wall features;

at least two vial fingers having a spring force attached to the interior of the housing and a bent portion and configured to maintain the position of the fluid vial wherein the fluid vial overcomes the spring force, wherein when the vial adapter is attached to the fluid vial, the bent portion and the top portion of the fluid vial are not in contact and a predetermined length of separation distance is maintained between the bent portion and a fluid vial septum;

a needle carriage slidably attached to the interior of the housing; and

a disc slidably attached to the interior of the housing, the disc having a first position on the receptacle end of the housing and a second position on the vial end of the housing and configured to matably attach to the needle carriage,

wherein the needle carriage matably attaches to the disc and the needle carriage and disc slide to the vial end of the housing and wherein the disc is locked into a position on the vial end by interior wall features of the housing, and

wherein when the fluid vial is removed from the vial adapter, the fluid vial first moves the predetermined length of separation distance and the bent portion catches the top portion of the fluid vial, and wherein a tip of a needle is removed from the fluid in the fluid vial and is located inside the fluid vial septum, whereby the fluid in the fluid vial will not continue to flow when the vial adapter is being removed from the fluid vial.

9. The vial adapter of claim 8 further comprising at least one locking feature, the locking feature adapted to mate with at least one key feature on a fill adapter base.