Safety hypodermic syringe

• US 20040049160A1
• Filed: 09/10/2002
• Published: 03/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chung-Chieh Hsieh, Ming-Kan Hung
• Original Assignee: Chung-Chieh Hsieh, Ming-Kan Hung
• Inventors: Hsieh, Chung-Chieh, Hung, Ming-Kan
• Application Number:
  US10/237,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20040049160A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/195
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/322 Retractable needles, i.e. disconnected from and withdrawn into the syringe barrel by the piston devices for protecting guide needles in combination with catheters A61M25/0612

Abstract

A safety hypodermic syringe includes a barrel and a base is movably received in the barrel. A cylindrical connection piece is engaged with the engaging recess. A needle cannula unit is fixed connected to the base and extends out from the barrel. A plunger has an insertion which is inserted through the hole in the connection piece and into the passage in the base. The insertion is securely engaged with the connection piece. A breaking groove is defined in an outer periphery of the plunger and located close to the second end of the plunger. The base together with the needle cannula unit are pulled in the barrel after injection and the plunger is broken to leave the needle cannula unit in the barrel.

Claims

1. A safety hypodermic syringe comprising:

a barrel having an opening defined in a first end thereof;

a base movably received in the barrel and a passage defined therethrough, an engaging recess defined in a first end of the base and a cylindrical connection piece having a hole defined therethrough and engaged with the engaging recess;

a needle cannula unit fixed connected to a second end of the base and extending out from the second end of the barrel, and

a plunger having a thumb rest on a first end thereof and an insertion extending from a second end of the plunger, the insertion inserted through the hole in the connection piece and engaged with the connection piece, the insertion inserted into the passage in the base, an enlarged skirt extending from an outer periphery of the insertion and securely engaged with the connection piece, a stopper mounted to a root portion of the insertion, a breaking groove defined in an outer periphery of the plunger and located close to the second end of the plunger.

2. The safety hypodermic syringe as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connection piece has a flange and the barrel has a first groove defined in an inner periphery thereof, the flange of the connection piece engaged with the first groove.

3. The safety hypodermic syringe as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connection piece has a ridge extending from an inner periphery of the hole of the connection piece and an enlarged skirt extending from an outer periphery of the insertion, the enlarged skirt engaged with the ridge.

4. The safety hypodermic syringe as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a flange extending from the outer periphery of the plunger and the barrel has a second groove defined in the inner periphery of the barrel, the second groove located close to the first end of the barrel, the flange of the plunger engaged with the second groove.

5. The safety hypodermic syringe as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a groove defined in the root portion of the insertion and the stopper is engaged with the groove in the root portion of the insertion.

6. The safety hypodermic syringe as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base has a threaded inner periphery and the needle cannula unit has a flange which is engaged with the threaded inner periphery of the base.

7. The safety hypodermic syringe as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base has a first connection protrusion extending from an inner periphery of the engaging recess and the connection piece has a second connection protrusion on an outer periphery thereof, the first connection protrusion engaged with the second connection protrusion.