MEDICATION DOSING DEVICE FOR ADMINISTERING A LIQUID MEDICATION

• US 20110190702A1
• Filed: 11/14/2008
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Stumber, Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/734,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20110190702A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14268 with a reusable and a disposable component
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/0244 Micromachined materials, e.g. made from silicon wafers, microelectromechanical systems [MEMS] or comprising nanotechnology
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6054 Magnetic identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14248 of the skin patch type
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00

Abstract

A medication dosing device for administering a liquid medication, having a housing, the housing having a medication reservoir, a medication dosing unit, a drive for conveying the medication, an administration needle, a power supply unit, and an electrical control system. The medication reservoir, the medication dosing unit, and the administration needle are jointly situated in a unit which may be inserted .into the housing and removed from the housing. The medication dosing device has the advantage that it may be easily manufactured and cost-effectively operated.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A medication dosing device for administering a liquid medication, comprising a housing, the housing including:

a medication reservoir,

a medication dosing device,

a drive for conveying the medication,

an administration needle,

a power supply unit, and

an electrical control system,

wherein the medication reservoir, the medication dosing device, and the administration needle are jointly situated in a unit which may be inserted into the housing and removed from the housing.

14. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein the removable unit is a disposable article.

15. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein the removable unit further contains the power supply unit.

16. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein the power supply unit in the housing at least one of (a) is designed to be separate from the removable unit and (b) is designed as a rechargeable battery.

17. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein at least one of the drive for conveying the medication and the electrical control system in the housing is separate from the removable unit.

18. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein at least one of a display device, a communication interface, at least one control element, and a needle insertion device is situated in the housing, separate from the removable unit.

19. The medication dosing device according to claim 18, wherein at least one sensor is situated in the housing, separate from the removable unit.

20. The medication dosing device according to claim 18, wherein at least one sensor component is situated in the removable unit.

21. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein the housing has a fastening device, separate from the removable unit, for affixing to the body of a patient.

22. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein the removable unit has a fastening device for affixing to the body of a patient.

23. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein the medication dosing device has a micro diaphragm pump made of silicon.

24. The medication dosing device according to claim 13, wherein the medication reservoir in a delivered state is filled with a medication.