Suction injector

• US 4,393,870 A
• Filed: 02/26/1981
• Issued: 07/19/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1974
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wolfgang Wagner
• Original Assignee: Wolfgang Wagner
• Inventors: Wagner, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): YASKO JR, JOHN D
• Application Number:
  US06/241,378
• Time in Patent Office: 873 Days
• Field of Search: 128/215, 128/218 R, 128/218 A, 128/218 F, 128/216, 128/276, 128/302
• US Class Current: 604/115
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/425 Protruding skin to facilitate piercing, e.g. vacuum cylinders, vein immobilising means

Abstract

A suction injector comprises a suction cup and an exchangeable cannula inserted into the cup for injecting a liquid medicine under human skin by the action of a piston movable in a cylinder. The suction cup is formed with an outer chamber which accumulates negative pressure and an inner chamber closed with a membrane which is placed over the skin to be treated. A tubular member is provided in the suction cup having a number of flexible projections adapted to prevent communication of the negative pressure in the outer chamber to the inner chamber until the membrane is in pressure contact with the skin and to break this communication when the membrane with the skin are lifted towards the cannula.

Claims

1. A suction injector, particularly for use with hypodermic injections, comprising a container filled with a liquid medicine;

a piston arranged for movement in said container;

a cannula operatively connected to said container;

a suction cup having an outer cylindrical portion defining an outer chamber and an inner cylindrical portion defining an inner chamber, said inner chamber having a surface to be positioned over human skin to be treated, said inner portion having an aperture for receiving said cannula through which the liquid medicine is discharged upon the movement of said piston and at negative pressure which is accumulated in said outer chamber during fabrication; and

means for preventing communication of the negative pressure in said outer chamber to said inner chamber until said inner chamber is in pressure contact with the skin.

2. The injector of claim 1, wherein said outer chamber is defined between said outer portion and said inner portion.

3. The injector of claim 2, further including a membrane defining said surface to be positioned over human skin, said communication preventing means supporting said membrane whereby said membrane together with the skin to be treated is lifted by said negative pressure towards said cannula.

4. The injector of claim 3, wherein said communication means includes a substantially tubular member associated with said inner chamber and provided with a number of flexible projections, said membrane closing said tubular member.

5. The injector of claim 4, wherein said tubular member is sealed from said outer chamber when said cannula is an idle condition, said flexible projections being adapted to break the seal between said outer chamber and said tubular member when said membrane is lifted towards said cannula.

6. The injector of claim 5, further including bellows interconnected between said outer portion and said tubular member.

7. The injector of claim 5, wherein said tubular member includes a tube and a bottom portion, said flexible projections being formed on said bottom portion.

8. The injector of claim 7, wherein said inner cylindrical portion is formed with a relatively thin radial extension, said flexible projections being adapted to penetrate said radial extension to break said seal when said tubular member is lifted towards said cannula.

9. The injector of claim 8, wherein said outer chamber is sealingly closed at the upper and the lower ends thereof by ring-shaped seals.

10. The injector of claim 1, wherein said cannula includes a valve means for discharging the liquid medicine therefrom.

11. The injector of claim 10, further including a diaphragm at least partially closing said outer chamber from above.

12. The injector of claim 1, further including a device for guiding said cannula for the injection.

13. The injector of claim 12, wherein said guiding device includes a cylindrical member having an outer wall defining said suction cup and a guiding bar formed with a guiding groove for supporting said cannula before insertion into said cup.

14. The injector of claim 13, wherein said guiding bar includes a straight portion communicating with said outer chamber and a sloped portion remote from said outer chamber, said cannula being adapted to slide along said guiding groove into said opening in said suction cup.