Device for the dosed release of an injectable product

• US 6,053,893 A
• Filed: 08/11/1998
• Issued: 04/25/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG (Ypsomed Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Disetronic Licensing Ag (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Bucher, Eugen
• Primary Examiner(s): YASKO JR, JOHN D
• Application Number:
  US09/132,268
• Time in Patent Office: 623 Days
• Field of Search: 604/131, 604/134, 604/135, 604/207, 604/208, 128/DIG. 1
• US Class Current: 604/131
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/2448 comprising means for injection of two or more media, e.g. by mixing
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31513 Piston constructions to improve sealing or sliding
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31551 including axial movement of dose setting member
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3158 performed by axially moving actuator operated by user, e.g. an injection button
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/01 Motorized syringe

Abstract

Device for the dosed release of an injectable product, comprising a housing, a retainer for a container, containing the product, in which a piston is displaceably accommodated, whose displacement in a feed direction causes the release of a product dose, a driven member including a driven rod which protruding into the container when the container is accommodated in the housing pushes the piston in the feed direction to release the product, at least one drive member engaging with the driven member, the driven member being displaced in the feed direction by the activation of the drive member, wherein the driven member contains a driven bush surrounding the driven rod, which driven bush engages into the drive member and is displaced together with the driven rod, and a rear wall--in relation to the feed direction--of the container protrudes at least during a release into an annulus formed between the driven rod and the driven bush.

Claims

1. Device for the dosed release of an injectable product, comprising

a) a housing,

b) a retainer for a container containing the product, in which a piston is displaceably accommodated, whose displacement in a feed direction causes the release of a product dose,

c) a driven member including a driven rod which protruding into the container when the container is accommodated in the housing pushes the piston in the feed direction to release the product,

d) at least one drive member engaging with the driven member, the driven member being displaced in the feed direction by the activation of the drive member, wherein

e) the driven member contains a driven bush surrounding the driven rod, which driven bush engages into the drive member and is displaced together with the driven rod, and

f) a rear wall--in relation to the feed direction--of the container protrudes at least during a release into an annulus formed between the driven rod and the driven bush.

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein the driven rod and the driven bush are a single component.

3. Device according to claim 1, wherein the driven member is pot-shaped and contains a bottom from which the driven rod and the driven bush rise up.

4. Device according to claim 1, wherein an anti-rotation protection is formed between the driven member and the housing by a slideway between a housing surface and a circumferential surface of the driven rod.

5. Device according to claim 1, wherein the drive member and the driven member form a spindle drive containing a thread pairing on an external surface of the driven bush and an internal surface of the bush-shaped drive member and that the bush parts of the spindle drive slide over the container like a shell.

6. Device according to claim 5, wherein a front end of the thread pairing in a forward position of the drive member is, at least after the complete discharge of the container, positioned at the same level as the rear end of the container or preferably even further back when viewed in feed direction.

7. Device according to claim 1, wherein the housing contains

a) at least one wall surrounding the container and

b) at least one further wall surrounding said wall, in which

c) the driven bush is displaceable into an annulus formed between the two walls and shell-like at least over a rear part of the container.

8. Device according to claim 1, wherein the housing contains

a) at least a hollow cylindrical first wall that can be inserted into the container,

b) at least a cylindrical second wall surrounding the first wall and

c) at least a cylindrical third wall surrounding the second wall, in which

d) the driven rod is displaceable within the first wall and the driven bush within an annulus formed between the second and the third walls and in which a rear part of the container is accommodated in an annulus between the first and second walls.

9. Device according to claim 1, wherein the device is an injection pen for injecting a drug solution.