Device with penetrable and resealable portion
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Abstract
A syringe and a reconstitution syringe are provided for the delivery of controlled doses of any of numerous different sterile substances, such as vaccines, medicaments, pharmaceutical preparations, cosmetics, and food products. A plunger of the syringe defines a resealable stopper frictionally and slidably received within a hollow syringe body for dispensing the medicament or other substance through a dispensing tip of the syringe upon movement of the plunger. The resealable stopper defines a heat-sealable portion to allow the stopper to be penetrated by a needle or other filling device to fill the syringe with a medicament or other substance, and in turn allow the hole remaining upon withdrawal of the needle to be heat sealed by transmission of laser energy thereon. A reconstitution syringe defines within a syringe body plural compartments, wherein each compartment stores a respective component of a multi-component medicament or other preparation.
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53 Claims
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- 21. A device including a body defining a sealed empty chamber, and a penetrable and thermally resealable portion in fluid communication with the chamber, wherein the penetrable and thermally resealable portion defines a penetrable region that is penetrable by a filling member for introducing a sterile substance through the penetrable and thermally resealable portion and into the chamber, and is resealable in response to the application of laser radiation thereto at a predetermined wavelength and power for hermetically sealing the penetrable region and the sterile substance within the chamber after removing the filling member from the penetrable region, wherein the penetrable and thermally resealable portion defines (i) a predetermined wall thickness, (ii) a predetermined color and opacity that substantially absorbs the laser radiation at the predetermined wavelength and substantially prevents the passage of the radiation through the predetermined wall thickness thereof, and (iii) a predetermined color and opacity that causes the laser radiation at the predetermined wavelength and power to hermetically seal a filling member aperture formed in the penetrable region within a predetermined time period and substantially without burning the penetrable region.
- 44. A device for storing a sterile substance including a body defining a sealed empty chamber, and means in fluid communication with the chamber and defining a predetermined wall thickness for penetration by a filling member, for introducing the sterile substance therethrough and into the chamber, for substantially absorbing laser radiation at a predetermined wavelength and power, for substantially preventing the passage of the radiation through the predetermined wall thickness thereof, and for causing the laser radiation at the predetermined wavelength and power to hermetically seal a filling member aperture formed therein within a predetermined time period and substantially without burning the penetrable region for hermetically sealing the sterile substance within the chamber.
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47. A device used to store and deliver a sterile food product including a body defining a sterile chamber, and a penetrable and thermally resealable portion in fluid communication with the chamber, wherein the penetrable and thermally resealable portion defines a penetrable region that is penetrable by a filling member for introducing the sterile food product through the penetrable and thermally resealable portion and into the chamber, and is resealable in response to the application of laser radiation thereto at a predetermined wavelength and power for hermetically sealing the penetrable region and the sterile food product within the chamber after removing the filling member from the penetrable region, wherein the penetrable and thermally resealable portion defines (i) a predetermined wall thickness, (ii) a predetermined color and opacity that substantially absorbs the laser radiation at the predetermined wavelength and substantially prevents the passage of the radiation through the predetermined wall thickness thereof, and (iii) a predetermined color and opacity that causes the laser radiation at the predetermined wavelength and power to hermetically seal a filling member aperture formed in the penetrable region in a predetermined time period.
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48. A device including a first body portion defining a first compartment forming a first sealed, empty storage chamber;
- a second body portion defining a second compartment forming a second sealed storage chamber; and
a penetrable and thermally resealable portion in fluid communication with the first storage chamber;
wherein the first and second compartments define a storage state in which the first and second compartments are hermetically sealed relative to each other, and a dispensing state in which the first and second compartments are in fluid communication with each other, the penetrable and thermally resealable portion is penetrable by a filling member coupled in fluid communication with a source of a first component for introducing the first component through the filling member and into the first sealed, empty storage chamber, and is resealable after withdrawing the filling member from the penetrable and thermally resealable portion by applying radiation thereto to reseal the penetrated region and form a substantially gas-tight seal between the penetrated region and the first compartment. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 52, 53)
- a second body portion defining a second compartment forming a second sealed storage chamber; and
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51. A device used to store and deliver a sterile substance including a body defining a sealed empty chamber, and a penetrable and resealable portion in fluid communication with the chamber, wherein the penetrable and resealable portion defines a penetrable region that is penetrable by a filling member for introducing the sterile substance through the penetrable and resealable portion and into the chamber, and is resealable in response to the application of radiation thereto for sealing the penetrable region after removing the filling member therefrom, wherein the penetrable and resealable portion defines a predetermined wall thickness for penetration by the filling member to fill the sterile substance therethrough and into the chamber, and substantially absorbs the radiation at the predetermined wavelength and substantially prevents the passage of the radiation therethrough to hermetically seal a filling member aperture formed in the penetrable region thereof in a predetermined time period and substantially without burning the penetrable region.
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