Portable automatic syringe device and injection needle unit thereof

• US 5,971,963 A
• Filed: 02/02/1999
• Issued: 10/26/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Choi, Soo Bong
• Original Assignee: Choi, Soo Bong
• Inventors: Choi, Soo Bong
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirsch, Paul J.
• Application Number:
  US09/243,286
• Time in Patent Office: 266 Days
• Field of Search: 604/174, 604/177, 604/180, 604/272, 128/DIG. 26
• US Class Current: 604/177
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/1581 Right-angle needle-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/158 Needles for infusions; Accessories therefor, e.g. for inserting infusion needles, or for holding them on the body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/12 Pressure infusion
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/26 Cannula supporters

Abstract

A portable automatic syringe device having a configuration including a separable rotating shaft adapted to provide a drive force to a piston included in the automatic syringe device so that the rotating shaft can be separated, along with the piston, from a housing of the syringe device upon re-filling a syringe of the syringe device with a liquid medicine. A coupling member is coupled between the rotating shaft and power transmission means. The coupling member has a reduction gear engaging with an output gear of the power transmission means, and a cross groove. A horizontal engaging pin is fixed to a lower end of the rotating shaft in such a fashion that it is engaged in the cross groove when the rotating shaft is positioned in position in the syringe device, thereby causing the rotating shaft to be coupled to the coupling member. An injection needle unit is also provided which includes an "L" shaped injection needle member provided with a curved portion capable of absorbing impact, thereby preventing a breakage of the injection needle member. The injection needle unit also includes a sensor for sensing an abnormal blood sugar level generated due to an abnormal injection of a liquid medicine.

Claims

1. An injection needle unit usable in a portable automatic syringe device, the injection needle unit comprising a feeding tube, an "L" shaped injection needle member connected to one end of the feeding tube, a connector connected to the other end of the feeding tube, and a depressing member integrally formed with the injection needle member in such a fashion that the injection needle protrudes perpendicularly from the depressing member, the depressing member being depressed against the skin of a user upon penetrating the injection needle member into the subcutaneous tissue of the user, wherein the injection needle member comprises:

a vertical injection needle provided with a needle tip;

a horizontal connecting rib fitted in said one end of the feeding tube; and

a curved portion connected between said injection needle and said connecting rib in such a fashion that it has a quadrant shape extending circumferentially about a center, flush with an upper end of the injection needle, said curved portion having a downward slant portion connected to the connecting rib.

2. The injection needle unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a protection cap groove for partially receiving a tube-shaped protection cap adapted to protect said injection needle, said protection cap having a through hole for receiving the injection needle, said through hole having a diameter larger than that of the injection needle.