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Electromechanical Manipulating Device for Medical Needle and Syringe with Sensory Biofeedback and Pain Suppression Capability

  • US 20140142507A1
  • Filed: 05/03/2013
  • Published: 05/22/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A hand-held medical-syringe manipulating device (sometimes referred to below as the “

  • injector”

    ) comprising mechanical, electromechanical, electronic and software components so arranged as to provide a housing with an interior cavity which can receive either standard or typical needle and syringe combinations that can be filled with a medicament by a patient or care-giver, or medical practitioner or a needle and syringe combination that has been previously prefilled with a medicament by a manufacturer;

    such that, when said needle and syringe are inserted into the cavity, the device and needle and syringe become a unified functioning system or “

    injector”

    capable of automatically inserting the needle into the patient, dispensing the medicament into the patient, and removing the needle from the patient, and comprising;

    the interior cavity so arranged that the needle and syringe can be loaded in a horizontal fashion with one hand and a lid which closes over the cavity hiding the needle and syringe from the patient'"'"'s view once it is closed over the needle and syringe;

    electrical sensing and measuring electronics and software capable of analyzing an electrical interface to the patient'"'"'s skin and translating these characteristics into qualities including contact force and angle;

    electronics and conductors for inducing electric currents into the patient'"'"'s skin to distract the patient from the sensation of needle stick and to reduce the pain of needle insertion via the TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) practice;

    electronics and software for the execution of programs to effect tactile, auditory, and visual biofeedback cues and instructions to the operator of the device for the purpose of providing safety, confidence, and minimal discomfort or provocation of fear in the patient during the use of the device;

    electronics and software for the execution of programs to control electromechanical components to insert the needle into the patient, inject the medicament contained within the syringe into the patient, and remove the needle from the patient without the patient having sight of the needle or syringe and where the steps above are executed in a controlled smooth automated fashion which will produce less awareness of the process of injection by the patient.

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