Structural safety design for the prevention of mis-pressing plunger rod into syringe

• US 6,582,407 B1
• Filed: 08/16/2002
• Issued: 06/24/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: M.K. Meditech Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: M.K. Meditech Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lo, Pi-Chang
• Primary Examiner(s): KENNEDY, SHARON E
• Application Number:
  US10/219,306
• Time in Patent Office: 312 Days
• Field of Search: 604/218, 604/220, 604/187, 604/208, 604/210, 604/235, 604/110
• US Class Current: 604/220
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/31508 provided on the piston-rod
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/5013 Means for blocking the piston or the fluid passageway to prevent illegal refilling of a syringe
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/502 for blocking the piston

Abstract

A structural safety design for the prevention of mis-pressing plunger rod into syringe mainly designs for single-used syringes, of which set a locking socket and a safety locking tab at the plunger rod end. An obstruction is formed between the plunger rod and the flange of hollow fluid chamber before the safety locking tab is pressed into the locking socket, so that the plunger rod can not be thoroughly pressed into the hollow cylinger. The invention, therefore, provides with a safety structure that effectively prevents from the unable-to-use problem of a syringe resulting from the plunger rod is mis-pressed into the hollow cylinder engaging with other components inside before the fresh syringe being used.

Claims

1. A structural safety design for the prevention of mis-pressing plunger rod into syringe especially applies to single-used syringe apparatus, which consists of a hollow cylinder, a needle, a tip protector, a plunger rod, and a rubber stopper, which is set at the front end of the plunger rod;

the syringe is able to be self-destructed resulting from the engagement mechanism by either a conical front portion at the front end of the rubber stopper or a ring set inside the hollow cylinder when the plunger rod is pressed-inwards;

a safety structure to prevent mis-pressing plunger, characterized in that;

a safety structure, consists of a locking socket and a relative safety locking tab set at one sectorial blade of the plunger rod near the end of thumb rest;

a safety locking tab, is in L shaping with a head thereof, the head of the safety locking tab is corresponding to the locking socket;

a locking socket, is set at one sectorial blade corresponding to the head of safety locking tab and forms at least a protrusion and a groove for the engagement;

therefore, prior to the syringe usage, the safety locking tab has to be pressed into the locking socket to enable the head to be securely engaged through both protrusion and groove of the locking socket, so that the plunger rod can be completely pressing into the hollow cylinder for ending up the injection and syringe self-destruction.

2. The structural safety design for the prevention of mis-pressing plunger rod into syringe in accordance with claim 1, wherein the head of the safety locking tab obstructs the flange of the hollow fluid chamber in the hollow cylinder.

3. The structural safety design for the prevention of mis-pressing plunger into syringe in accordance with claim 1, wherein the engagement relationship between the locking socket and the safety locking tab is a anchored structure by a protrusion and a groove.