SUBCUTANEOUS INFUSION DEVICE

• US 20100057021A1
• Filed: 01/06/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nipro Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nipro Corporation
• Inventors: ISHIKURA, Kohzo, Yamaguchi, Takeshi, Ishihara, Naoko
• Application Number:
  US12/348,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20100057021A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/288.10
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/1587 suitable for being connected to an infusion line after insertion into a patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/158 Needles for infusions; Accessories therefor, e.g. for inserting infusion needles, or for holding them on the body

Abstract

A subcutaneous infusion device includes an indwelling member which has a base portion and a cannula reaching an inside of a body of a user when the base portion is fixed to a surface of the body of the user, and a coupling member which is attached to the indwelling member in a detachable/attachable manner. The coupling member includes a main body portion, a needle provided at the main body portion and communicated with the cannula when the coupling member is attached to the indwelling member, a lid portion provided turnably with respect to the main body portion, an engagement portion locking the lid portion to the main body portion, and an elastic member biased when the lid portion is locked to the main body portion and capable of biasing the lid portion in a turning direction when the locking is being released.

Claims

1. A subcutaneous infusion device for infusing a medical solution into a body of a user, comprising:

an indwelling member having

a base portion fixable to a surface of the body of said user, and

a medical solution passage reaching an inside of the body of said user when the base portion is fixed to the surface of the body of the user; and

a coupling member attached to said indwelling member in a detachable/attachable manner by being moved in a sliding manner along an extending direction of said base portion, wherein

said coupling member includes

a main body portion,

a needle-like medical solution supply portion provided at said main body portion and communicated with said medical solution passage when said coupling member is attached to said indwelling member,

a lid portion provided turnably with respect to said main body portion,

a lock mechanism providing locking of said lid portion to said main body portion, and

a biasing portion capable of biasing said lid portion in a turning direction, when said locking is being released, by biasing force generated when said lid portion is locked to said main body portion.

2. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 1, wherein said coupling member has a hook portion which suppresses a sliding movement of said coupling member along the extending direction of said base portion when said lid portion is locked to said main body portion.

3. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 1, wherein

said main body portion of said coupling member is formed into an approximately U shape, and

the locking of said lid portion to said main body portion is released by increasing a spacing between opposite ends of said approximately U shape.

4. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 1, wherein

said indwelling member has a protruding portion which protrudes outward from the body of said user with respect to said base portion, and

the main body portion of said coupling member has an opening which receives said protruding portion.

5. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 1, wherein said indwelling member has a rotation-suppressing portion which suppresses rotation of said coupling member about an axis orthogonal to the extending direction of said base portion when said coupling member is attached to the indwelling member.

6. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 1, wherein

said indwelling member has a flange portion,

said coupling member has a rail portion which engages with said flange portion, and

said flange portion and said rail portion suppress a movement of said coupling member along a direction orthogonal to the extending direction of said base portion when said coupling member is attached to said indwelling member.

7. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 1, wherein said coupling member includes a cover member fixed to said main body portion, formed to cover said medical solution supply portion when said coupling member is detached from said indwelling member, and formed to receive compression force from said indwelling member and be compressed in an axial direction to thereby allow said medical solution supply portion to penetrate the cover member and allow the medical solution supply portion and said medical solution passage to be communicated with each other, when said coupling member is attached to said indwelling member.

8. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 7, wherein

said indwelling member has a protruding portion which protrudes outward from the body of said user with respect to said base portion, and

said cover member abuts on said protruding portion when said coupling member is attached to said indwelling member.

9. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 7, wherein said cover member has a self-closing property which enables a hole portion formed by penetration of said medical solution supply portion to be closed when said coupling member is detached from said indwelling member.

10. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 7, wherein a concave portion is provided at a side surface of said cover member.

11. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 1, wherein

said indwelling member further has a partition portion which defines said medical solution passage and a fastening portion which fastens the partition portion onto said base portion,

said partition portion includes a puncture portion into which said medical solution supply portion is inserted, and

the puncture portion is formed to protrude more upward than said fastening portion protrudes in a state where said medical solution supply portion is detached from said indwelling member.

12. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 11, wherein said coupling member further includes a press portion which presses said partition portion when the coupling member is attached to said indwelling member.

13. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 11, further comprising a cover member fixed to said coupling member and formed to cover said medical solution supply portion when said coupling member is detached from said indwelling member, wherein

said cover member is formed to abut on said indwelling member and receive compression force to thereby be compressed in an axial direction, and allow said medical solution supply portion to penetrate said cover member and said puncture portion and allow the medical solution supply portion to be communicated with said medical solution passage, when said coupling member is attached to said indwelling member.

14. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 11, wherein said puncture portion of said indwelling member has a self-closing property which enables a hole portion formed by penetration of said medical solution supply portion to be closed when said coupling member is detached from said indwelling member.

15. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 1, used for continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion.

16. A subcutaneous infusion device for infusing a medical solution into a body of a user, comprising:

an indwelling member having

a base portion fixable to a surface of the body of said user, and

a medical solution passage reaching an inside of the body of said user when the base portion is fixed to the surface of the body of the user; and

a coupling member attached to said indwelling member in a detachable/attachable manner by being moved in a sliding manner along an extending direction of said base portion, wherein

said coupling member includes

a main body portion,

a needle-like medical solution supply portion provided at said main body portion and communicated with said medical solution passage when said coupling member is attached to said indwelling member, and

a cover member fixed to said main body portion, formed to cover said medical solution supply portion when said coupling member is detached from said indwelling member, and formed to receive compression force from said indwelling member and be compressed in an axial direction to thereby allow said medical solution supply portion to penetrate the cover member and allow the medical solution supply portion and said medical solution passage to be communicated with each other, when said coupling member is attached to said indwelling member.

17. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 16, wherein

said indwelling member has a protruding portion which protrudes outward from the body of said user with respect to said base portion, and

said cover member abuts on said protruding portion when said coupling member is attached to said indwelling member.

18. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 16, wherein said cover member has a self-closing property which enables a hole portion formed by penetration of said medical solution supply portion to be closed when said coupling member is detached from said indwelling member.

19. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 16, wherein a concave portion is provided at a side surface of said cover member.

20. The subcutaneous infusion device according to claim 16, used for continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion.