DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND SET OF A DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND A PLURALITY OF MOUNTABLE ELEMENTS

• US 20120238960A1
• Filed: 07/02/2010
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Sanofi )
• Original Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Sanofi )
• Inventors: Smith, Christopher, Ekman, Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 9,669,202 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/189
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3125 specific display means, e.g. to indicate dose setting
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 35/003 Portable hand-held applicators having means for dispensing or spreading integral media hand-held massage devices with liquid delivery A61H7/003
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 37/00 Other apparatus for introducing media into the body for reproduction or fertilisation A61B17/425; apparatus for iontophoresis or cataphoresis A61N1/30; Percutany, i.e. introducing medicines into the body by diffusion through the skin salt baths A61H33/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/003 Kits for diabetics

Abstract

A drug delivery device is configured to receive a cartridge containing a drug. The drug delivery device comprises a content display for displaying information related to one of the cartridge and the drug contained in the cartridge. The content display is configured to selectively display at least two different pieces of information and is configured to be adjusted mechanically to display one of the pieces of information. Furthermore, a set of the drug delivery device and a plurality of mountable elements is provided, wherein the mountable elements differ in their shapes and wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for the shape of the mountable element.

Claims

1. A drug delivery device configured to receive a cartridge containing a drug, the drug delivery device comprising a content display for displaying information related to one of the cartridge and a drug contained in the cartridge,

wherein the content display is configured to selectively display at least two different pieces of information and wherein the content display is configured to be adjusted mechanically to display one of the pieces of information.

2. The drug delivery device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the pieces of information comprises a name of a drug.

3. The drug delivery device according to claim 1 comprising locking means for permanently locking the content display to display one of the pieces of information.

4. The drug delivery device according to claim 1 comprising an adjustment dial operable by a user, wherein the content display is adjustable to display one of the pieces of information by operating the adjustment dial.

5. The drug delivery device according to claim 1 comprising a main body and a mountable element, the drug delivery device having an unmounted state, in which the mountable element is not mounted to the main body, and a mounted state, in which the mountable element is mounted to the main body,

wherein the mountable element is one of a cartridge and a cartridge retaining part.

6. The drug delivery device according to claim 5,

wherein the mountable element comprises an actuating member,

wherein the content display comprises an adjustment member operable by the actuating member and

wherein the content display is adjustable to display one of the pieces of information by operating the adjustment member with the actuating member.

7. The drug delivery device according to claim 6, wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for one of the position of the actuating member on the mountable element and the shape of the actuating member.

8. The drug delivery device according to claim 5, wherein at least one of the main body and the mountable element comprise securing means for securing the mountable element to the main body.

9. The drug delivery device according to claim 8,

wherein the securing means are configured for a screw-type connection of the mountable element and the main body and

wherein the adjustment member is configured to be driven by a relative rotational movement of the mountable element and the main body.

10. The drug delivery device according to claim 9,

wherein the mountable element has a longitudinal axis and

wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for the angular position of the actuating member according to the longitudinal axis.

11. The drug delivery device according to claim 8,

wherein the securing means are configured for a bayonet-type connection of the mountable element and the main body and

wherein the adjustment member is configured to be driven by a relative translational movement of the mountable element and the main body.

12. The drug delivery device according to claim 11,

wherein the mountable element has a longitudinal axis,

wherein the actuating member extends along the longitudinal axis of the mountable element and

wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for the length of the actuating member along the longitudinal axis.

13. The drug delivery device according to claim 5 comprising resilient means for biasing the content display to a neutral display in an unmounted state of the drug delivery device.

14. The drug delivery device according to claim 1 comprising coding means configured to allow the mounting of a certain type of cartridge or a cartridge containing a certain drug and configured to prevent a mounting of a non-matching cartridge.

15. A set of the drug delivery device according to claim 1 and a plurality of mountable elements,

wherein the plurality of mountable elements is one of a plurality of cartridges and a plurality of cartridge retaining parts mountable to the drug delivery device,

wherein the mountable elements differ in their shapes and

wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for the shape of the mountable element