Injection device comprising a syringe

• US 7,938,808 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2005
• Issued: 05/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tech Group Europe Limited (West Pharmaceutical Services Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: SEDAT Co.
• Inventors: Pessin, Olivier
• Primary Examiner(s): Koharski; Christopher D
• Application Number:
  US11/574,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20070265576A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,115 Days
• Field of Search: 604/110, 604/111, 604/192, 604/198, 604/197, 604/187, 604/232, 604/263, 604/218, 606/108
• US Class Current: 604/192
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3109 Caps sealing the needle bore by use of, e.g. air-hardening adhesive, elastomer or epoxy resin
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3235 triggered by radial deflection of the anchoring parts between needle mount and syringe barrel or needle housing, e.g. spreading of needle mount retaining hooks having slanted surfaces by engagement with correspondingly shaped surfaces on the piston at the end of an injection stroke
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3247 Means to impede repositioning of protection sleeve from needle covering to needle uncovering position
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31505 Integral with the syringe barrel, i.e. connected to the barrel so as to make up a single complete piece or unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3202 Devices for protection of the needle before use, e.g. caps A61M5/50 takes precedence; for infusion spikes A61M5/1626; protectors for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/326 Fully automatic sleeve extension, i.e. in which triggering of the sleeve does not require a deliberate action by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3271 with guiding tracks for controlled sliding of needle protective sleeve from needle exposing to needle covering position

Abstract

The invention relates to an injection device, comprising an injection syringe (1) with a tubular syringe body, provided at a porximal end with a fixing collar (16), projecting radially outwards, an injection piston, arranged to slide within the body, a needle protection device (2), comprising a protector support (20) and a sliding needle protector (22). The device comprises a stop pin (25) for the piston stop (8), said pin (25) is mounted on the protector support (20) and defines, in the extension of the syringe body, a piston circulation passage of which the minimum section is larger than the section of the running part (10) of the piston and less than the section of a shoulder (15) of the piston.

Claims

1. An injection device comprising:

an injection syringe comprising;

a tubular syringe body equipped at a proximal end with a fixing collar projecting radially outward; and

an injection plunger mounted to slide within the body by being introduced into the body from the proximal end of the body, the plunger comprising a distal end, provided with a plug, engaged in the syringe body and extended toward the proximal end by a common portion of the plunger, the plug comprising a shoulder turned toward the proximal end and defined between the distal end and the common portion of the plunger, and

a needle protection device comprising;

a protector support delimiting a conduit for receiving the syringe body, which protector support comprises means for axially fixing the body relative to the protector support,

a needle protector mounted so as to be displaceable relative to the protector support between a retracted position and an extended position,

wherein the device comprises a stop clip for stopping the plunger, which clip is planar and is in the shape of a hollowed disc so as to form a U, said clip being carried by the protector support and defining, in the extension of the syringe body, a travel passage for the plunger, the minimum section of which is greater than the section of the common portion of the plunger and is smaller than the section of the plunger shoulder.

2. Injection device according to claim 1, characterised in that the clip (25) delimits a notch (25B) which opens radially and the base (25C) of which delimits said travel passage for the plunger (8).

3. Injection device according to claim 2, characterised in that the distance separating the lips (25D) delimiting the notch is chosen to be greater than the diameter of the common portion of the plunger (10) and smaller than the internal section of the syringe body (4).

4. Injection device according to claim 1, characterised in that the protector support (20) comprises means (32) for resiliently interlocking the clip (25) for the axial fixing thereof.

5. Injection device according to claim 4, characterised in that the resilient interlocking means comprise click-lock projections (32) carried by the protector support (20), the distance between said click-lock projections (32) being greater than the section of the syringe body to allow free engagement of the syringe body (4) with the protector support (20).

6. Injection device according to claim 5, characterised in that orifices (34) are formed along the click-lock projections (32) to impart resilience thereto.

7. Injection device according to claim 1, characterised in that the protector support (20) comprises a stop (29) for axially supporting the syringe body (4) toward the proximal end and in that the clip (25) is axially connected to the protector support (20) toward the proximal end and forms a stop for stopping the collar (16) toward the proximal end so that the collar (16) is axially confined between the support stop (29) and the clip (25).

8. Injection device according to claim 1, characterised in that the clip (25) has a circular outer contour.