Injection syringe for medical purposes

• US 4,952,208 A
• Filed: 07/22/1988
• Issued: 08/28/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wasserburger Arzneimittelwark Dr Madaus GmbH & Company
• Original Assignee: Wasserburger Arzneimittelwerk Dr Madaus GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Lix, Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Polutta, Mark O.
• Application Number:
  US07/227,185
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 604/187, 604/221, 604/218, 604/56, 604/82, 604/89, 604/90, 604/91, 604/311
• US Class Current: 604/187
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3123 having air entrapping or venting means, e.g. purging channels in pistons
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3139 Finger grips not integrally formed with the syringe barrel, e.g. using adapter with finger grips
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/284 comprising means for injection of two or more media, e.g. by mixing
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3129 Syringe barrels A61M5/3205 and A61M5/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3135 characterised by constructional features of the proximal end
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31511 Piston or piston-rod constructions, e.g. connection of piston with piston-rod A61M5/5066 takes precedence

Abstract

An injection syringe for medical purposes, in which the syringe plunger or a plunger-side end of the syringe cylinder is shaped or provided with components to ensure at least one flow passage or connection between an inner cylindrical space of the cylinder and outer environment, when the plunger is partially, but not completely, introduced into the syringe cylinder.

Claims

1. Injection syringe plunger having means for ensuring at least one flow connection between an interior of a cylinder and outer environment when the plunger is partially inserted into the cylinder,

wherein said means comprise

a short, substantially cylindrical attachment on the plunger of smaller diameter than the diameter of the plunger in a region of a sealing bead thereon,

said attachment comprising at least three, projections mounted on a circumference thereof at a location where said attachment joins the plunger proper, and

said projections being substantially equidistant from one another and situated at substantially the same level along an axial length of the plunger, and rising above the circumference of said attachment approximately as far as the sealing bead.

2. The combination of claim 1, wherein said means additionally comprise

at least two groove-like depressions extending axially along the circumference of said attachment, opening at an end of said attachment opposite the plunger proper, and ending slightly past the location of said projections on the plunger.

3. The combination of claim 1, wherein the diameter of said attachment is about 10 to 25% smaller than the diameter of the plunger in the region of the sealing bead.

4. The combination of claim 1, wherein said projections are nub-like in shape.

5. The combination of claim 1, wherein said projections axially extend along the circumference of said attachment and are rib-like in shape.