Liquid medicine injecting device

• US 5,360,411 A
• Filed: 10/12/1993
• Issued: 11/01/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: AuBEX Corporation
• Original Assignee: AuBEX Corporation, Opto Tech Corporation (OptoTech Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Hideya, Mimura, Jinko
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirsch, Paul J.
• Application Number:
  US08/134,433
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 604/153, 604/236, 604/237, 604/246, 604/31, 604/247, 604/280
• US Class Current: 604/246
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/08 Tubes; Storage means specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/152 pressurised by contraction of elastic reservoirs containers for dispensing contents by contraction of an elastic bag provided therein, in general B65D83/0061

Abstract

A liquid medicine injecting device for constantly feeding a liquid medicine into a human body at a certain degree. The liquid medicine stored in a liquid medicine receiving portion is fed out therefrom by a pressure means to be supplied into the human body through a flow amount control means and a human body fitting tool such as a needle. Even if there are contaminant and the like in the liquid medicine or if the flow amount control means is folded, twisted, or pressured, the tube is not blocked up to thereby function as a capillary tube and a member for controlling flow amount with a simple structure so that a high productivity and a easy handling can be obtained.

Claims

1. A liquid medicine injecting device, comprising:

a liquid medicine receiving portion to store therein a liquid medicine;

a pressure means for pressurizing the liquid medicine;

flow amount control means applied to be connected to said liquid medicine receiving portion at one end thereof and made from a thermoplastic resin having a different sectional configuration opening and a predetermined length for conducting two functions as a capillary tube and a member for controlling flow amount all together; and

a human body fitting tool connecting to the other end of said flow amount control means so that the liquid medicine stored in said liquid medicine receiving portion is fed into a human body through said flow amount control means and said human body fitting tool.

2. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein a sectional configuration of the tube defining said flow amount control means is arranged by three sets of two different arborescent raised portions each of which is extending from an inner wall surrounding a base round hole.

3. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein a sectional configuration of the tube defining said flow amount control means is formed into a Y-shape, each stem of the Y being angularly intersecting each other at a same angle of 120 degrees.

4. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 3, wherein the Y-shaped opening is formed by uneven surface.

5. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein a sectional configuration of the tube defining said flow amount control means is arranged by three tapered triangles with one roundly recessed portion at the base each of which extends from an inner wall surrounding a base round hole.

6. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein a sectional configuration of the tube defining said flow amount control means is arranged by three sets of two different arborescent raised portions each of which is extending from an inner wall with uneven surface surrounding a base round hole.

7. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 3, wherein a short side of the each stem shape of the opening is kept within 0.01-0.1 mm and the ratio of the length of the long side of the stem of the short side of the stem is more than 3.

8. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein the differentia degree of the tube is given by an expression of √

(A/B) on or more than 7, the "A" being an inside measurement of the opening and the "B" being an area of the opening.

9. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein the tube is a single layered tube made from a thermoplastic resin tube selected one from polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyacetal (POM), polycarbonate (PC), ABS, polyamide resin or polystyrene (PS) or a coated single layered tube with a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer.

10. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein there is provided a supplemental flow control means defined by a thermoplastic resin tube in a parallel state to said flow amount control means between said liquid medicine receiving portion and said human body fitting tool, said supplemental flow control means being provided with a flow on-off means for being manually opened and closed.

11. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 10, wherein said supplemental flow control means is a thick tube having little pressure loss.

12. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein said liquid medicine receiving portion is defined by a tubular rubber tunica elastica, and wherein said pressure means is made by a contractile force of the tubular rubber tunica elastica one end of which directly or indirectly connects to the tube of said flow amount control means.

13. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein said liquid medicine receiving portion is received and closed up in a protective cover having a water repellent breathing filter.

14. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 13, wherein the protective cover is constructed by a cylinder and an associated cap, wherein said liquid medicine receiving portion is a rubber tunica elastica both end of which are opened, and wherein said pressure means is made by a contractile force of the tubular rubber tunica elastica one end of which directly or indirectly connects to the tube of said flow amount control means and the other end of which securely connects to a sliding element reciprocally moving in the protective cover.

15. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 14, wherein the rubber tunica elastica has a contractile force of from 1000 to 700 mm water column.

16. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein said liquid medicine receiving portion is made by a rubber tunica elastica one end of which is opened and the other is closed, wherein said pressure means is made by a contractile force of the tubular rubber tunica elastica, and further comprising a liquid medicine feed pipe in the rubber tunica elastica which is adapted to fit the deflated rubber tunica elastica and connect to the tube of said flow amount control means.

17. The liquid medicine injecting device according to claim 1, wherein said pressure means is a spring.