Injection device for dental anesthetic or like

• US 5,368,572 A
• Filed: 08/31/1993
• Issued: 11/29/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shirota Denki Rozai Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Shirota Denki Rozai Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Shirota, Kazunari
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirsch, Paul J.
• Application Number:
  US08/113,672
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• Field of Search: 604/155, 604/413, 604/154, 604/152
• US Class Current: 604/154
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3152 including gearings to multiply or attenuate the piston displacing force
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/20 Automatic syringes, e.g. with automatically actuated piston rod, with automatic needle injection, filling automatically A61M5/142 , A61M5/46 take precedence; hypodermic projectiles F42B12/54
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/24 Ampoule syringes, i.e. syringes with needle for use in combination with replaceable ampoules or carpules, e.g. automatic ampoules or carpules A61J1/06

Abstract

An injection device for a dental anesthetic or the like is constituted such that the linkage between the rear end side of an operating rod provided so as to freely go in and out of a main body and a drive mechanism operated by a motor provided in the main body is made detachably and the connecting or disconnecting operation of the drive mechanism and the rear end side of the operating rod is carried out by means of a manipulation portion provided in the main body.

Claims

1. In an injection device for a dental anesthetic or the like, having a rear end side of an operating rod accommodated in a main body including a handle portion in an axially cylindrical form and an operating portion case connected to the upper portion of the handle portion to allow a front end side of said operating rod to go in and out toward a cavity of a cartridge holder detachably connected to a front end of said operating portion case, a drive mechanism operated by a motor contained in the main body linked to the operating rod, a drive switch for controlling the motor to allow said motor to normally rotate and a reverse rotation switch for controlling said motor so as to allow said motor to reversely rotate, said drive switch and said reverse rotation switch provided on the outside face said main body, an injection needle having a communicating needle provided at a base end side, said injection needle detachably connected to a front end of said cartridge holder, said communicating needle extending through a membrane at a front end of a cartridge when housed in said cartridge holder, and a hook portion on the front end of said operating rod abutting a piston in a rear end side of said cartridge,

an improvement of said injection device comprising,

manipulation means located between the drive mechanism and the operating rod for selectively engaging or disengaging the drive mechanism to and from the operating rod,

said manipulation means including actuating means on an outside face of the main body for permitting an operator to selectively engage or disengage the drive mechanism to and from the operating rod,

wherein when the drive mechanism and the operating rod are disengaged the operating rod can be manually moved to quickly accommodate replacement of a used cartridge.