Portable automatic syringe device and injection needle unit thereof

• US 5,993,423 A
• Filed: 08/18/1998
• Issued: 11/30/1999
• 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:
  US09/136,002
• Time in Patent Office: 469 Days
• Field of Search: 604/154, 604/155, 604/152, 128/DIG. 12
• US Class Current: 604/155
• 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. In a portable automatic syringe device comprising a housing having a vertical axis, a syringe separably received in the housing, an injection needle unit coupled to the housing and communicating with the syringe, a piston slidably fitted in the syringe and separably received in the housing, the piston being vertically movable in the syringe, a threaded rotating shaft, push means for moving the piston threadedly coupled to the rotating shaft so that the push means moves along the rotating shaft when the rotating shaft rotates, power transmission means fixedly installed in the housing for transmitting a drive force generated from power generating means to the rotating shaft, and

a coupling member coupling said rotating shaft to said power transmission means, the improvement wherein the syringe, piston, push means and rotating shaft are together slidable with respect to the housing between a first position with an end of the rotating shaft protruding into the coupling member and a second position with the rotating shaft removed from the housing whereby the rotating shaft can be rotated manually, the coupling member and rotating shaft comprising first means for coupling the rotating shaft to, and for the decoupling the rotating shaft from, the coupling member, said first means coupling said rotating shaft to the coupling member when the syringe, piston, push means and rotating shaft are slid into said first position, said first means decoupling the rotating shaft from the coupling member when the syringe, piston, push means and rotating shaft are slid from the first position to the second position.

2. A portable automatic syringe as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first means comprises a cross groove in the coupling member and a horizontal engaging pin on a lower end of the rotating shaft, said horizontal engaging pin engaging said cross groove when the lower end of the rotating shaft protrudes into the housing a distance sufficient to contact the coupling member.

3. A portable automatic syringe as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coupling member comprises a reduction gear that engages an output gear of said power transmission means.

4. A portable automatic syringe as claimed in claim 3, wherein said member is of unitary construction with the reduction gear being an integral part thereof.

5. A portable automatic syringe as claimed in claim 4, wherein said reduction gear and output gear are eccentrically disposed with respect to one another, said reduction gear engaging said power transmission means along a circumference of the reduction gear only.

6. A portable automatic syringe as claimed in claim 1, wherein the housing comprises guide means for facilitating slidable movement of said piston, push means and rotating shaft relative to said housing along said vertical axis.