PREFILLED SYRINGE

• US 20130072882A1
• Filed: 03/25/2011
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Terumo Corporation
• Inventors: Ogawa, Junichi, Tachikawa, Kouichi, Otsu, Shinnosuke
• Application Number:
  US13/638,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20130072882A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/192
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3123 having air entrapping or venting means, e.g. purging channels in pistons
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/283 by telescoping of ampoules or carpules with the syringe body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/288 by piercing without internal pressure increase A61M5/283 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31565 Administration mechanisms, i.e. constructional features, modes of administering a dose dosing mechanisms for setting a dose A61M5/31533
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3202 Devices for protection of the needle before use, e.g. caps A61M5/50 takes precedence; for infusion spikes A61M5/1626; protectors for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3286 Needle tip design, e.g. for improved penetration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/425 Protruding skin to facilitate piercing, e.g. vacuum cylinders, vein immobilising means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/46 having means for controlling depth of insertion
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/502 for blocking the piston

Abstract

A prefilled syringe is configured so that, in order that a liquid medicine injected and administered into the upper layer part of skin is prevented from leaking out of the living body, a pressing section can be held in a position reached when it has been completely pressed in. A prefilled syringe 1 is provided with: a double-ended needle 3 having a needlepoint 9 which can be inserted into a living body; a needle hub 4 for holding the double-ended needle 3; an outer tube 2; a pressing section 22; a liquid medicine storage section 6 for storing a liquid medicine M; a holding section 8; and a sealing body 23. The liquid medicine storage section 6 is disposed within a tube hole 2a of the outer tube 2. The pressing section 22 operates the liquid medicine storage section 6 so that the liquid medicine storage section 6 can move in the axial direction of the tube hole 2a of the outer tube 2. In a pressed state in which the liquid medicine storage section 6 and the pressing section 22 have been moved toward the needle hub 4 side until the liquid medicine M stored within the liquid medicine storage section 6 has been discharged, the holding section 8 holds the pressed state of the pressing section 22.

Claims

1. A prefilled syringe for administering a liquid medicine into a living body, comprising:

a double-ended needle having a needlepoint capable of puncturing the living body;

a needle hub for holding the double-ended needle;

a outer tube which is provided with the needle hub at an end portion thereof and has a tube hole;

a liquid medicine storage section which is disposed in the tube hole of the outer tube and in which the liquid medicine is stored;

a sealing body for sealing the liquid medicine storage section;

a pressing section which operates the liquid medicine storage section so that the liquid medicine storage section can move in an axial direction of the tube hole of the outer tube; and

a holding section which, in a pressed state wherein the liquid medicine storage section and the pressing section have been moved toward the needle hub side until the liquid medicine stored in the liquid medicine storage section has been discharged, holds the pressed state of the pressing section.

2. The prefilled syringe according to claim 1, comprising:

a liquid medicine container which includes the pressing section and the liquid medicine storage section,

wherein the holding section is composed of;

a lock section provided on the liquid medicine container; and

a stopper which is provided on the outer tube and by which the lock section is locked.

3. The prefilled syringe according to claim 1,

wherein the pressing section includes the sealing body which slides within the liquid medicine storage section, and a plunger which connects the pressing section and the sealing body, and

the holding section is composed of:

a lock section provided on the plunger; and

a stopper which is provided on the outer tube and by which the lock section is locked.

4. The prefilled syringe according to claim 1,

wherein the pressing section is provided with the sealing body which slides within the liquid medicine storage section, and

the holding section is composed of:

a lock section provided on the sealing body; and

a stopper which is provided in the liquid medicine storage section and by which the lock section is locked.

5. The prefilled syringe according to claim 1,

wherein a holding force with which the pressing section is held by the holding section is set to be not less than 3 N.

6. The prefilled syringe according to claim 1,

wherein an adjustment section having a needle protrusion surface from which the needlepoint of the double-ended needle protrudes is provided in a periphery of the double-ended needle.

7. The prefilled syringe according to claim 1, comprising:

a stabilization section disposed so as to cover a periphery of the needlepoint of the double-ended needle, the stabilization section having an end face which makes contact with a skin when the double-ended needle is made to puncture the living body.