Devices, systems, and methods for medicament delivery
First Claim
1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a housing;
a medicament injector disposed within the housing, the medicament injector configured to inject a medicament contained therein into a body, the medicament injector including a needle, the needle defining a longitudinal axis; and
an actuator configured to be disposed within the housing and to move the medicament injector between a first medicament injector position and a second medicament injector position, in the first medicament injector position a second end of the needle is within the housing, in the second medicament injector position the second end of the needle is outside the housing, the actuator including;
an energy storage member having a first position and a second position, in the first position the energy storage member has a first potential energy, in the second position the energy storage member has a second potential energy less than the first potential energy, the energy storage member configured to convert a portion of the first potential energy into a kinetic energy when moved in a first direction from the first position to the second position, wherein the kinetic energy directly moves the medicament injector in a second direction between the first medicament injector position and the second medicament injector position, the second direction opposite the first direction the energy storage member having a longitudinal axis offset from the longitudinal axis of the needle; and
a release member configured to selectively deploy the energy storage member from the first position to the second position.
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a housing, a medicament container and an actuator. The actuator includes a release member and an energy storage member having a first position and a second position. In the first position, the energy storage member has a first potential energy. In the second position the energy storage member has a second potential energy. The energy storage member is configured to convert a portion of the first potential energy into kinetic energy when moved from the first position to the second position to move the medicament container within the housing. The energy storage member has a longitudinal axis offset from a longitudinal axis of the medicament container. The release member is configured to selectively deploy the energy storage member from its first position to its second position.
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26 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a housing; a medicament injector disposed within the housing, the medicament injector configured to inject a medicament contained therein into a body, the medicament injector including a needle, the needle defining a longitudinal axis; and an actuator configured to be disposed within the housing and to move the medicament injector between a first medicament injector position and a second medicament injector position, in the first medicament injector position a second end of the needle is within the housing, in the second medicament injector position the second end of the needle is outside the housing, the actuator including; an energy storage member having a first position and a second position, in the first position the energy storage member has a first potential energy, in the second position the energy storage member has a second potential energy less than the first potential energy, the energy storage member configured to convert a portion of the first potential energy into a kinetic energy when moved in a first direction from the first position to the second position, wherein the kinetic energy directly moves the medicament injector in a second direction between the first medicament injector position and the second medicament injector position, the second direction opposite the first direction the energy storage member having a longitudinal axis offset from the longitudinal axis of the needle; and a release member configured to selectively deploy the energy storage member from the first position to the second position. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus, comprising:
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a housing having a distal end portion and a proximal end portion; a medicament injector disposed within the housing, the medicament injector configured to inject a medicament contained therein into a body, the medicament injector including a medicament container and a needle; an energy storage member having first configuration and a second configuration, the energy storage member configured to produce a force when moved from the first configuration to the second configuration to move the medicament injector in a first direction between a first medicament injector position and a second medicament injector position; a first actuation member having a first position and a second position, first actuation member configured to move the energy storage member from its first configuration to its second configuration when the first actuation member is moved in a second direction from its first position to its second position, the second direction substantially opposite the first direction, the first actuation member configured to be selectively moved from its first position to its second position by manipulating a second actuation member adjacent the distal end portion of the housing; and a biasing member configured to bias the first actuation member. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An apparatus, comprising:
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a housing; a medicament injector disposed within the housing, the medicament injector configured to inject a medicament contained therein into a body, the medicament injector including a medicament container and a needle; a gas container configured to contain a gas, the gas container having first configuration in which the gas has a first pressure and a second configuration in which the gas has a second pressure lower than the first pressure, the gas container configured to produce a force when moved from the first configuration to the second configuration to move the medicament injector between a first medicament injector position and a second medicament injector position, a longitudinal axis of the gas container being noncoaxial with a longitudinal axis of the medicament container; a puncturer configured to penetrate a portion of the gas container when the gas container is in the second configuration; and a retraction spring configured to bias the medicament injector in the first medicament injector position, the retraction spring configured to exert a biasing force along an axis noncoaxial with the longitudinal axis of the medicament container. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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Specification