Dosage device

• US 7,901,384 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2005
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Algen & Klemer, LLC
• Original Assignee: Algen & Klemer, LLC
• Inventors: Merson, Alexander, Kleyman, Gennady
• Primary Examiner(s): Sirmons; Kevin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hall; Deanna K
• Application Number:
  US11/316,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20060184136A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,903 Days
• Field of Search: 604207-208, 604/210, 604/110, 604/220
• US Class Current: 604/207
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3158 performed by axially moving actuator operated by user, e.g. an injection button
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31595 Pre-defined multi-dose administration by repeated overcoming of means blocking the free advancing movement of piston rod, e.g. by tearing or de-blocking

Abstract

A dosage device has a hollow barrel and a plunger slidable within the barrel, and a plurality of formations provided on the barrel and plunger and cooperating with one another to produce a sound signal and a pointed impulse, which corresponds to a predetermined dosage of fluid drawn into or displaced from the barrel. At least one of the barrel and plunger formations which are made of flexible material is configured to have a plurality of spaced-apart segments shaped and dimensioned to improve the quality of the sound signal.

Claims

1. A dosage device comprising:

a barrel extending along a longitudinal axis and including an interior space;

a flange member extending outwardly from the barrel, the flange member including at least one flexible tab, wherein a space is formed below the flexible tab, the space being laterally open to an exterior of the barrel and freely accessible along an exterior surface of the flange; and

a plunger received in and axially displaceable within the interior space; and

at least one plunger formation provided on an outer surface of the plunger, wherein the at least one plunger formation is configured to selectively engage the flexible tab while generating an indicating signal corresponding to a predetermined dosage of fluid drawn into or dispensed from the barrel during axial displacement of the plunger.

2. The dosage device of claim 1, wherein there are two plunger formations and two flexible tabs located opposite one another, the flexible tabs defining in part a pair of openings that form entrances into the space.

3. The dosage device of claim 2, wherein the openings are defined in part by a pair of vertical walls, the flexible tabs being formed at upper ends of the vertical walls spaced from a floor of the flange.

4. The dosage device of claim 3, wherein the flexible tabs are disposed parallel to the floor.

5. The dosage device of claim 1, wherein a portion of the plunger below the flexible tab is visible through the space.

6. The dosage device of claim 3, wherein the flexible tabs, vertical walls and the floor are part of an integral structure.

7. A dosage device comprising:

a barrel extending along a longitudinal axis and including an interior space and a flange member, the flange member including at least one inwardly extending flexible tab that is spaced above a floor of the flange, the floor including an opening that forms an entrance into the interior space, wherein a space is formed between the flexible tab and the floor, the space being open to the exterior of the barrel along a side of the flange so that the space is externally accessible along the side of the flange member; and

a plunger received in and axially displaceable within the interior space; and

at least one plunger formation provided on an outer surface of the plunger, wherein the at least one plunger formation is configured to selectively engage the flexible tab while generating an indicating signal corresponding to a predetermined dosage of fluid drawn into or dispensed from the barrel during axial displacement of the plunger;

wherein a portion of the plunger below the plunger formation is externally visible through the space.

8. The dosage device of claim 7, wherein there are two plunger formations and two flexible tabs located opposite one another, the flexible tabs defining a pair of openings that form entrances into the space.

9. The dosage device of claim 7, wherein the openings are defined in part by a pair of vertical walls, the flexible tabs being formed at upper ends of the vertical walls spaced from the floor of the flange that is defined at lower ends of the vertical walls.

10. The dosage device of claim 7, wherein the flexible tabs are disposed parallel to the floor.

11. The dosage device of claim 7, wherein the flange is integrally formed at a proximal end of the barrel.