SAFETY SYRINGE FOR TAKING BLOOD

• US 20090192456A1
• Filed: 01/24/2008
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eumed Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Eumed Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Cherng-Jyh, Chen, Tzer-Ming
• Granted Patent: US 7,806,859 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/110
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150412 Pointed piercing elements, e.g. needles, lancets for piercing the skin blade-like piercing elements A61B5/150442
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150519 Details of construction of hub, i.e. element used to attach the single-ended needle to a piercing device or sampling device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150549 Protectors removed by rotational movement, e.g. torsion or screwing
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150618 Integrally moulded protectors, e.g. protectors simultaneously moulded together with a further component, e.g. a hub, of the piercing element
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150717 manually removed
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150893 by indicating if used, tampered with, unsterile or defective
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15105 Purely manual piercing, i.e. the user pierces the skin without the assistance of any driving means or driving devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15144 comprising driving means, e.g. a spring, for retracting the piercing unit into the housing

Abstract

A safety syringe for taking blood has a hollow barrel with two first slots and two second slots and a detachable needle hub. The needle hub is mounted in the barrel and has a moving base with a needle near a proximal end and a positioning base near a distal end. The positioning base detachably connects to the moving base and has a push button and two stopping resilient elements protruding symmetrically from an outer surface of the positioning base and protruding in the first slots before the push button being pushed and protruding in the second slots after the push button being pushed, so the position base can not move backward. Therefore, medical personnel are able to distinguish easily if the syringe has been used or not.

Claims

1. A safety syringe for taking blood comprising:

a hollow barrel having

an open proximal end having a narrowed section;

an open distal end;

an inner surface;

two first slots being symmetrically defined through the barrel near the distal end; and

two second slots being symmetrically defined through the barrel far away from the distal end and being respectively adjacent to the first slots to form two stopping segments and each stopping segment being mounted between the first slot and the second slot; and

a detachable needle hub being mounted slidably in the barrel and having

a moving base being mounted in the barrel near the proximal end of the barrel and having

a first end facing the proximal end of the barrel;

a second end facing the distal end of the barrel;

an outer surface;

a through hole being defined longitudinally through the moving base;

a needle being mounted in the through hole; and

two limiting resilient elements protruding symmetrically from the outer surface of the moving base toward the proximal end of the barrel and each limiting resilient element having a limiting end contacting the inner surface of the barrel;

a positioning base being mounted in the barrel near the distal end of the barrel and having

a first end facing the second end of the moving base and contacting the second end before the moving base being detached from the positioning base;

a second end facing the distal end of the barrel;

an outer surface;

a push button being mounted on the second end of the positioning base; and

two stopping resilient elements protruding symmetrically from the outer surface of the positioning base toward the proximal end of the barrel and each stopping resilient element having a stopping end that having an original position with the stopping ends extending respectively in the first slots and a final position with the stopping ends extending respectively in the second slots.

2. The safety syringe for taking blood as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the needle has

a pinpoint protruding from the first end of the moving base;

and

a protruding end protruding form the second end of the moving base; and

the positioning base further has a connecting recess being formed in the first end of the positioning base and holding the protruding end of the needle before the moving base being detached from the positioning base.

3. The safety syringe for taking blood as claimed in claim 1 further has a sheath detachably covering needle.

4. The safety syringe for taking blood as claimed in claim 2 further has a sheath detachably covering the pinpoint.

5. The safety syringe for taking blood as claimed in claim 1, wherein the barrel further has at least one limiting protrusion being mounted in the barrel, abutting the proximal end of the barrel and stopping the moving base from moving forward.

6. The safety syringe for taking blood as claimed in claim 2, wherein the barrel further has at least one limiting protrusion being mounted in the barrel, abutting the proximal end of the barrel and stopping the moving base from moving forward.

7. The safety syringe for taking blood as claimed in claim 3, wherein the barrel further has at least one limiting protrusion being mounted in the barrel, abutting the proximal end of the barrel and stopping the moving base from moving forward.

8. The safety syringe for taking blood as claimed in claim 4, wherein the barrel further has at least one limiting protrusion being mounted in the barrel, abutting the proximal end of the barrel and stopping the moving base from moving forward.