Device for administering an injectable product in doses

• US 6,837,876 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2002
• Issued: 01/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG (Ypsomed Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG (Ypsomed Holding AG)
• Inventors: Bally, Christoph A., Jost, Stefan
• Primary Examiner(s): Casler, Brian L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN
• Application Number:
  US10/273,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20030105429A1
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 604/131, 604/156, 604134-136, 604/157, 604/211, 604/218, 604/232, 604/233, 604/151, 604/152, 604/154, 604/181, 604/187, 604207-209, 604/224, 604/227, 222/336, 222/327, 222/386, 222/43, 222/309, 222/283, 222/288, 222/32, 222/36, 222/37, 222/38, 222/325, 222/326
• US Class Current: 604/207
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31555 by purely axial movement of dose setting member, e.g. during setting or filling of a syringe
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31563 interacting with a displaceable stop member
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3158 performed by axially moving actuator operated by user, e.g. an injection button

Abstract

A device for administering an injectable product in doses, wherein the device includes a casing, a reservoir for the product, a piston, an advancing element which moves the piston a selected path length, and a dosing mechanism including a number of dosing bodies and a dosing element operable to move the dosing bodies, wherein the path length is selected by the dosing element moving at least one dosing body between the piston and the advancing element.

Claims

1. A device for administering an injectable product in doses, including:

a) a casing comprising a reservoir for the product;

b) a piston which, when shifted in an advancing direction towards an outlet of the reservoir, forces product out of the reservoir;

c) a delivery means comprising an advancing element which presses the piston in the advancing direction by a set path length;

d) and a dosing means comprising a number of dosing bodies and a dosing element, wherein the path length is defined by at least one dosing body which is inserted between the piston and the advancing element by means of the dosing element, before the delivery means is activated.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the dosing bodies are slid between the piston and the advancing element perpendicular to the advancing direction of the piston.

3. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the dosing bodies are piled loosely one on top of the other between the piston and the advancing element, in the advancing direction of the piston.

4. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the dosing bodies are laminae.

5. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the dosing bodies are tapered front and back in the shifting direction, for dosing.

6. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the dosing bodies are accommodated in a magazine, piled one on top of the other into a stockpile, and wherein, when the dosing element moves perpendicular to the stockpile, it displaces a dosing body away from the stockpile between the piston and the advancing element.

7. The device as set forth in claim 6, wherein the stockpile is pressed against a stopper by a pre-tensioned spring, the stockpile is laterally guided in the magazine, and only a single dosing body, nearest to the stopper, is released for one perpendicular shift.

8. The device as set forth in claim 6, wherein the magazine is laterally offset along the reservoir and the dosing bodies are linearly shifted, perpendicular to the stockpile and perpendicular to the advancing direction of the piston, away from the stockpile between the piston and the advancing element.

9. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein a dosing body is guided along a stopper in order to be inserted between the piston and the advancing element.

10. The device as set forth in claim 9, wherein, while a dosing body is being inserted between the piston and the advancing element, the dosing element and the stopper are slid one of at least partially over or into each other.

11. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein one or more dosing bodies are held pre-tensioned in a dosing position between the piston and the advancing element.

12. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the delivery means includes a clamp which is pressed in the advancing direction towards the piston by an elastically acting tension force and wherein, when a dosing body is inserted between the piston and the advancing element, the clamp is counter to the advancing direction.

13. The device as set forth in claim 12, wherein the clamp is arranged such that it may be moved relative to the advancing element.

14. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the dosing bodies moved into a dosing position between the piston and the advancing element are counted by a counter, and the number of them is displayed by a display.

15. An injection device comprising a casing, a piston, an advancing element which moves the piston a selected path length, and a dosing mechanism comprising a number of dosing bodies and a dosing element operable to move the dosing bodies, wherein the path length is selected by the dosing element moving one or more of the dosing bodies between the piston and the advancing element.