Device for administering an injectable product

• US 6,736,795 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2002
• Issued: 05/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Disetronic Licensing Ag (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Michel, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Mendez, Manuel
• Application Number:
  US10/077,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20020111589A1
• Time in Patent Office: 823 Days
• Field of Search: 604/131, 604/93.01, 604/141, 604/142, 604/218, 604/236, 604/151, 604/152
• US Class Current: 604/131
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14513 with secondary fluid driving or regulating the infusion
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3331 Pressure; Flow
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1454 spring-actuated, e.g. by a clockwork
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14566 with a replaceable reservoir for receiving a piston rod of the pump

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for administering an injectable product, comprising:

a) a casing (3);

b) a container for said product accommodated by said casing (3)

c) a delivering means (2) for delivering product out of said container (1);

d) a drive means (8); and

e) a transmission link via which said drive means (8) drives said delivering means (2).

The device is characterised in that:

f) a fluid space (21, 22) for an incompressible fluid and

g) a pressure reducing means (3, 10, 23) are provided in said transmission link;

h) wherein said fluid space (21, 22) can be impinged on a drive side by pressure from said drive means (8) and said pressure reducing means (3, 10, 23) reduces a fluid pressure generated by said drive means (8) toward a driven side of said fluid space (21, 22).

Claims

1. A device for administering an injectable product, comprising:

a) a casing;

b) a container for the product accommodated by said casing;

c) a delivering means for delivering product out of said container;

d) a drive means; and

e) a transmission link via which said drive means drives said delivering means, said transmission link comprising a fluid space for an incompressible fluid and a pressure reducing means, wherein said fluid space can be impinged on a drive side by pressure from said drive means and said pressure reducing means reduces a fluid pressure generated by said drive means toward a driven side of said fluid space.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein a working stroke of said drive means is transmitted in said fluid space into a working stroke of said delivering means which is greater than the working stroke of said drive means.

3. The device as set forth in claim 2, wherein a bias of said drive means is determined by a distance ring.

4. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said drive side of said fluid space is formed by a piston area of a drive piston which is larger than a piston area of a driven piston which forms the driven side of said fluid space.

5. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said fluid space is sub-divided into a first partial space including said drive side and a second partial space including said driven side, and in that said two partial spaces are connected to each other by a fluid connection formed by said pressure reducing means.

6. The device as set forth in claim 5, wherein said two partial spaces are connected to each other by a system of capillaries, if a higher pressure prevails in said first partial space than in said second partial space.

7. The device as set forth in claim 5, wherein said fluid connection includes a generally spiral fluid channel.

8. The device as set forth in the claim 7, wherein said pressure reducing means comprises a capillary body, and said spiral fluid channel is formed between a surface area of said capillary body and an adjacent surface area.

9. A The device as set forth in claim 5, wherein one of said first partial space and said second partial space is formed as a toroidal chamber between an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve, and the other of said two partial spaces is formed in said inner sleeve.

10. The device as set forth in the claim 9, wherein said toroidal chamber forms said first partial space, and a drive piston guided fluid-proof by said outer sleeve and said inner sleeve forms said drive side.

11. A device for administering an injectable product, comprising:

a generally cylindrical outer sleeve;

an inner sleeve generally concentric with the outer sleeve and housing a driven piston;

a ring space generally between the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve and housing a drive piston and a spring;

the outer and inner sleeves and the driven and drive pistons substantially defining a fluid space;

a capillary body in the fluid space and substantially separating the fluid space into a first partial space and a second partial space; and

at least one capillary generally defined by the capillary body and operably linking the first and second partial spaces.

12. The device according to claim 11, further comprising a one-way valve in the capillary body.

13. The device according to claim 11, wherein the spring urges the drive piston to initially pressurize one of the first and second partial spaces, thereby pressurizing the other of the partial spaces through the at least one capillary and causing the driven piston to move.

14. The device according to claim 11, wherein the drive and driven pistons each have a piston area, and wherein the drive piston has a larger piston area that of the driven piston.

15. The device according to claim 11, wherein the drive and driven pistons each have a stroke, the stroke of said drive piston less than that of the driven piston.

16. A device for administering an injectable product comprising:

means for delivering;

means for driving the means for delivering; and

a fluid coupling operably coupling the means for driving and means for delivering, whereby the energy produced by the means for driving is attenuated.

17. The device according to claim 16, wherein the energy produced by the means for driving is attenuated and applied evenly to the means for delivering.

18. The device according to claim 16, wherein the fluid coupling comprises a capillary.

19. The device according to claim 16, wherein the means for driving comprises a partial space containing a fluid and a piston for pressurizing the fluid in the partial space, and the means for delivering comprises another partial space and a piston for acting on the injectable product.

20. The device according to claim 18, said fluid coupling operably coupling the partial space and the another partial space.

21. The device according to claim 19, wherein the pistons each have an associated piston area, the piston area of the piston of the means for driving being larger than the piston area of the piston of the means for delivering.

22. The device according to claim 19, wherein the partial space and the another partial space are generally concentric.