Automatic safety infusion catheter needle

• US 5,885,253 A
• Filed: 07/15/1998
• Issued: 03/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wen-Neng Liu
• Original Assignee: Wen-Neng Liu
• Inventors: Liu, Wen-Neng
• Primary Examiner(s): YASKO JR, JOHN D
• Application Number:
  US09/115,602
• Time in Patent Office: 251 Days
• Field of Search: 604/164, 604/165, 604/167, 604/168, 604/174, 604/177, 604/263, 604/264, 604/170
• US Class Current: 604/164.04
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0631 having means for fully covering the needle after its withdrawal, e.g. needle being withdrawn inside the handle or a cover being advanced over the needle
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3202 Devices for protection of the needle before use, e.g. caps A61M5/50 takes precedence; for infusion spikes A61M5/1626; protectors for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/322 Retractable needles, i.e. disconnected from and withdrawn into the syringe barrel by the piston devices for protecting guide needles in combination with catheters A61M25/0612

Abstract

An automatic safety infusion catheter needle including: a trifurcate connector having a first and a second connecting sections coaxially aligned with each other. An infusion soft needle inserted on the first connecting section of the trifurcate connector. A steel needle having a needle body slidably fitted in a sleeve and axially passed in the soft needle. The sleeve is connected with the second connecting section of the trifurcate connector. The holder body of the steel needle has a projecting post formed with an air guiding hole for exhausting the air outside and making the liquid medicine smoothly flow into the soft needle. An infusion catheter is serially connected with a third connecting section of the trifurcate connector for infusion of liquid medicine through the soft needle into the body of a patient.

Claims

1. An automatic safety infusion catheter needle comprising:

a trifurcate connector having a hollow main body, an upper section of the main body being defined as a first hollow connecting section, a lower section of the main body being defined as a second hollow connecting section, the first and second connecting sections being coaxially aligned with each other about a central axis of the main body, a free end of the second connecting section being inserted with a rubber cap, a third connecting section outward projecting from the first and second connecting sections of the main body for connecting with a connecting head of an infusion catheter;

an infusion soft needle including a needle holder formed with a fitting socket at bottom end for fitting with the first connecting section of the trifurcate connector, a soft needle body connecting with and upward extending from a top end of the needle holder; and

a steel needle including a holder body slidably fitted in a sleeve, a top section of the sleeve being fitted with the second connecting section of the trifurcate connector, the steel needle further including a projecting post upward axially extending from top end of the holder body, the projecting post normally penetrating beyond the rubber cap, the projecting post being formed with a radial air guiding hole, a needle body axially upward extending from upper end of the projecting post, a central through hole of the needle body being communicated with the air guiding hole of the projecting post, the needle body being slidably fitted in the soft needle body of the soft needle, the holder body being disposed with an engaging section which can be downward slided to engage with a latching section of the sleeve, whereby the needle body of the steel needle can be drawn out of the soft needle body and firmly located and hidden in the sleeve, whereby the connecting head of the infusion catheter is connected with the third connecting section of the trifurcate connector for infusion of liquid medicine through the soft needle into the body of a patient.

2. An automatic safety infusion catheter needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the steel needle has a pulling rod axially extending from a bottom end thereof, a bottom end of the pulling rod protruding out of the bottom end of the sleeve and having a handle section.

3. An automatic safety infusion catheter needle as claimed in claim 2, wherein the pulling rod is formed with at least one breaking notch.

4. An automatic safety infusion catheter needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the engaging section of the holder body of the steel needle is in the form of an annular groove formed on a periphery of the holder body, while the latching section of the sleeve is in the form of an inward extending flange formed on bottom edge of the fitting hole of the sleeve.

5. An automatic safety infusion catheter needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the engaging section of the holder body of the steel needle is in the form of an annular insertion recess formed on the bottom thereof, while the latching section of the sleeve is in the form of an annular upward projecting wall formed on the bottom end thereof.

6. An automatic safety infusion catheter needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the engaging section of the holder body of the steel needle is in the form of an L-shaped cavity formed on the periphery thereof, while the latching section of the sleeve is in the form of a projecting pin projecting from the wall of the fitting hole of the sleeve.

7. An automatic safety infusion catheter needle as claimed in claim 1, wherein an outer cap is connected with outer edge of the third connecting section of the trifurcate connector for normally sealing an opening of the third connecting section.