Injector

• US 4,654,035 A
• Filed: 09/12/1985
• Issued: 03/31/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Company Limited
• Inventors: Ando, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Yasko, John D.
• Application Number:
  US06/775,299
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 604/207, 604/208, 604/209, 604/210
• US Class Current: 604/210
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31555 by purely axial movement of dose setting member, e.g. during setting or filling of a syringe
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3156 using volume steps only adjustable in discrete intervals, i.e. individually distinct intervals
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3158 performed by axially moving actuator operated by user, e.g. an injection button

Abstract

An injector such as a hypodermic syringe and the like is improved in that an amount of injection each time thereof is mechanically determined by provisions of a stopper disconnectably attached to the barrel of the plunger and a plurality of convex/concave portions provided integrally on the outer surface of the plunger and cooperating with the stopper so that the stopper acts as a limiter for an advancing movement of the plunger in the cylinder of the injector to determine the amount of each injection of the injector.

Claims

1. An injector comprising:

a hollow cylinder having an injection point at one end and a rear end surface at another end thereof;

a circular column-like plunger having a sealing portion at an end thereof fitted to the inside of said hollow cylinder for axial movement therein;

a plurality of convex/concave spaced apart portions formed in a row extending in an axial direction on an outer peripheral surface of said plunger; and

a stopper member arranged to engage said rear end surface of said hollow cylinder and having a cylindrical opening therein, said stopper member being mounted on said outer peripheral surface of said plunger for axial and rotational movement thereon and being provided at said opening with at least one inwardly facing projection extending over a portion of its inner circumference so as to engage said convex/concave portions of said plunger;

said stopper member being rotatably movable to a position whereat said projection does not engage a convex/concave portion of said plunger and in such position being axially movable on said plunger without rotation to a position whereat said projection is adjacent a selected convex/concave portion, and then rotatably positioned so that said projection will engage said selected convex/concave portion to thereby set a limit on axial movement of said plunger in said cylinder.

2. An injector as recited in claim 1, wherein said plunger is formed with a plurality of circumferentially spaced rows of said axially extending convex/concave portions.

3. An injector as recited in claim 2, wherein the member of said rows is two.

4. An injector as recited in claim 2, wherein the number of said rows is three.

5. An injector as recited in claim 2, wherein said stopper member is provided with a number of inwardly facing projections equal to the number of said plurality of rows of convex/concave portions.

6. An injector as recited in claim 3, wherein said stopper member has two inwardly facing projections.

7. An injector as recited in claim 4, wherein said stopper member has three inwardly facing projections.

8. An injector as recited in claim 2, wherein said convex/concave portions of each of said plurality of circumferentially spaced rows of axially extending spaced apart convex/concave portions are spaced at different intervals, and said stopper is provided with a single inwardly facing projection, said stopper being rotatably movable to engage said projection with a selected row of convex/concave portions.

9. An injector as recited in claim 1, wherein said stopper, when positioned so that said projection will engage said row of convex/concave portions, may be moved relative to the plunger in an axial direction to cause said projection to produce a click noise as it engages sequentially with each of said spaced apart convex/concave portions.