Injector

• US 5,017,191 A
• Filed: 03/08/1989
• Issued: 05/21/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ki-Add Specialized Support Technology Incorporated, Nihon Medi-Physics Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nihon Medi-Physics Company Limited
• Inventors: Yamada, Hideo, Nakayama, Shozo, Tobiki, Hisao, Iinuma, Mitsuhisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum, C. Fred
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rose, Sharon
• Application Number:
  US07/320,608
• Time in Patent Office: 804 Days
• Field of Search: 604/240-243, 604/122, 604/124, 604/125
• US Class Current: 604/243
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/28 Syringe ampoules or carpules, i.e. ampoules or carpules provided with a needle
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/32 Needles; Details of needles pertaining to their connection with syringe or hub infusion needles A61M5/158; Accessories for bringing the needle into, or holding the needle on, the body A61M5/42, A61M5/46 take precedence; guide needles for catheters A61M25/065; Devices for protection of needles apparatus specially adapted for cleaning or sterilising needles A61M5/001

Abstract

An injector pre-filled with a radiopharmaceutical liquid, which comprises (1) a syringe containing a radiopharmaceutical liquid with a stopper made of an elastic material fitted at the top opening, (2) a holder having a hole at thee central part fitted on the stopper to keep it firmly at such position, (3) an adaptor having a body portion of which the lower part forms a cap portion, a passage for the radiopharmaceutical liquid penetrating the body portion and a hollow needle portion continuously extending from the passage to the lower direction, detachably fitted on the syringe, and (4) a disposable needle head comprising a needle having a passage for the radiopharmaceutical liquid therein and a cap portion, detachably fitted on the body portion of said adaptor to make a gap at the top part of the cap portion of the needle head, the cap portion of the needle head being at least partly made of an inside observable material.

Claims

1. An injector pre-filled with a radiopharmaceutical liquid, which comprises:

a syringe containing the radiopharmaceutical liquid, said syringe having a top opening;

a stopper made of an elastic material fitted at said top opening;

a holder having a central part with a hole therethrough, said holder being fitted on the stopper to keep it firmly in position at said top opening;

an adaptor having a body portion of which the lower part forms a cap portion, a passage for the radiopharmaceutical liquid penetrating the body portion, and a hollow needle portion continuously extending from the passage in the lower direction, said adaptor being detachably fitted on said syringe, the stopper being pierceable by the needle portion extending from said adaptor; and

a disposable needle head comprising a needle having a passage for the radiopharmaceutical liquid therein and a cap portion, said disposable needle head being detachably fitted on the body portion of said adaptor to form a gap at the top part of the cap portion of said needle head, the cap portion of said needle head being, at least partly, made of an inside observable material.

2. The injector according to claim 1, wherein the holder is made of a plastic material.

3. The injector according to claim 1, wherein the holder is made of an aluminum material.