REMINDER DEVICE FOR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES

• US 20120253288A1
• Filed: 08/26/2010
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Sanofi )
• Original Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Sanofi )
• Inventors: Dasbach, Uwe, Lanin, Irina, Rabe, Peggy
• Application Number:
  US13/389,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20120253288A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/189
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/04 Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6063 Optical identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31533 Dosing mechanisms, i.e. setting a dose administrating mechanisms A61M5/31565

Abstract

The present invention relates to a reminder device for a drug delivery device, comprising: a base member, an adjusting element movably disposed with respect to the base member between at least two stop positions, and a display means comprising an information surface being only partially discernible through an aperture, wherein at least two designated segments of the information surface become selectively discernible by a displacement of the adjusting element relative to the base member.

Claims

1. A reminder device for a drug delivery device, comprising:

a base member,

an adjusting element movably disposed with respect to the base member between at least two stop positions, and

a display means comprising an information surface being only partially discernible through an aperture, wherein at least two designated segments of the information surface become selectively discernible by a displacement of the adjusting element relative to the base member.

2. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the base member is an integral housing component of the drug delivery device.

3. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the aperture is formed in the base member.

4. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the information surface is disposed on the adjusting element.

5. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting element is slidably disposed in the base member in an axial direction between at least a distal and a proximal stop position.

6. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting element comprises a sliding element having a gripping member protruding through the aperture.

7. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting element and the base member comprise mutually corresponding latching elements for keeping the adjusting element in a selected position.

8. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the base member is of substantially cylindrical geometry.

9. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting element is rotatably mounted on the outer circumference of the base member.

10. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the aperture is formed in the adjusting element.

11. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the information surface is disposed on the circumference of the base member.

12. The reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the information surface comprises visible and/or haptic information.

13. A drug delivery device for dispensing a dose of a medicament by way of injection, comprising:

at least one housing component,

a cartridge filled with the medicament and being disposed in the housing and having a piston slidably disposed therein,

a drive mechanism comprising a piston rod to be operably engaged with the piston of the cartridge for dispensing of a dose of the medicament, and

a reminder device according to any one of the preceding claims.

14. The drug delivery device according to claim 13, wherein the housing component and the base member of the reminder device are integrally formed.

15. The drug delivery device according to claim 13, wherein the base member and/or the reminder device is detachably connectable with the housing component.