Syringe device comprising a syringe body and a bearing sleeve

• US 9,220,848 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2008
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tech Group Europe Limited (West Pharmaceutical Services Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Tech Group Europe Limited (West Pharmaceutical Services Incorporated)
• Inventors: Chevallier, Stephane, Chevallier, Jean-Michel
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehta, Bhisma
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHELL, LAURA C
• Application Number:
  US12/738,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20100217205A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,624 Days
• Field of Search: 604/110, 604/198
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3238 Trigger provided at the proximal end, i.e. syringe end opposite to needle mounting end
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3261 triggered by radial deflection of the anchoring parts between sleeve and syringe barrel, e.g. spreading of sleeve retaining hooks having slanted surfaces by engagement with conically shaped collet of the piston rod during the last portion of the injection stroke of the plunger
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3129 Syringe barrels A61M5/3205 and A61M5/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3135 characterised by constructional features of the proximal end
• 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

Abstract

The invention relates to a device comprising a syringe body (10) having an axial direction (A) and a bearing sleeve (18) inside which the body is arranged. The sleeve has at least one holding lug (22) co-operating with the syringe body, at a proximal end (10A) of the latter, in order to hold the body in relation to the sleeve. Said proximal end is fixed to a wedging surface (42) having radial crenulations forming dips (42B) and bumps (42A) and the holding lug is inserted into a dip in order to prevent a relative rotation of the syringe body (10) and the sleeve perpendicularly to the axial direction.

Claims

1. A syringe device comprising:

a syringe body (10;

10′

;

10″

) having a central axis (A), a radially extending syringe flange (14, 14′

) at a proximal end of the syringe body and a needle proximate a distal end of the syringe body,

a bearing sleeve (18) receiving the syringe body therein, the sleeve having at least one holding lug (22) co-operating with the syringe body at a proximal end (10A, 10′

A, 10″

A) of the syringe body, in order to hold the said body in relation to the sleeve, and

an uneven wedging surface (42;

42′

;

42″

) having alternating radially extending recessed portions (42B;

42′

B;

42″

B), formed by indentations extending in a direction of the central axis (A), and radially extending raised portions (42A;

42′

A;

42″

A), formed by ribs extending in the direction of the central axis (A), the recessed and raised portions alternating in a circumferential direction,

wherein;

a distal surface of the wedging surface cooperatively abuts a proximal surface of the syringe flange and the at least one holding lug (22) is insertable in at least one of the recessed portions to prevent rotation of the syringe body (10;

10′

) relative to the bearing sleeve (18).

2. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a wedging part (40;

40′

;

40″

) connectable to the proximal end (10A;

10″

A) of the syringe body (10;

10″

) to form the wedging surface.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the wedging surface is created on a flange part (42;

42″

) of the wedging part (40;

40′

;

40″

), extending radially outwardly beyond a cylindrical wall (11) of the syringe body (10;

10″

).

4. The device according to the claim 3, wherein the flange part (42) of the wedging part (40;

40′

) has radially-extending strips (42A) forming the raised portions on the wedging surface, and the strips are separated by the indentations (42B) forming the recessed portions of the wedging surface.

5. The device according the claim 3, wherein at least one of the holding lug (22) and the flange part (42) is elastically flexible.

6. The device according to claim 2, wherein the wedging part (40;

40′

;

40″

) has a tubular axial part (44;

44′

;

44″

) sized and shaped to be inserted in the syringe body (10;

10″

), starting from the proximal end (10A;

10″

A) of the syringe body.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the tubular axial part (44′

;

44″

) has crenulations (45).

8. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a protection sleeve (24), the protection sleeve and the bearing sleeve (18) being able to slide one in relation to the other between a standby setting where the needle (16) may protrude in relation to the protection sleeve (24) and a protection setting, where the needle (16) is able to be surrounded by the protection sleeve (24).

9. A syringe device comprising:

a syringe body (10;

10′

;

10″

) having a central axis (A), a radially extending syringe flange (14, 14′

) at a proximal end of the syringe body and a needle proximate a distal end of the syringe body,

a bearing sleeve (18) receiving the syringe body therein, the sleeve having at least one holding lug 22 co-operating with the syringe body at a proximal end (10A, 10′

A, 10″

A) of the syringe body, in order to hold the said body in relation to the sleeve, and

an uneven wedging surface (42;

42′

;

42″

) having alternating radially extending recessed portions (42B;

42′

B;

42″

B), formed by indentations extending in a direction of the central axis (A), and radially extending raised portions (42A;

42′

A;

42″

A), formed by ribs extending in the direction of the central axis (A), the recessed and raised portions alternating in a circumferential direction,

wherein the wedging surface (42′

) is formed integrally with the flange (14′

) of the syringe body (10′

), and the at least one holding lug (22) is insertable in at least one of the recessed portions to prevent rotation of the syringe body (10;

10′

) relative to the bearing sleeve (18).

10. A syringe device comprising:

a syringe body having a central axis (A), a radially extending syringe flange at a proximal end of the syringe body and a needle proximate a distal end of the syringe body,

a wedging part having a proximal flange part defining alternating radially extending recessed portions, formed by indentations extending in a direction of the central axis (A), and radially extending raised portions, formed by ribs extending in the direction of the central axis (A), that alternate in a circumferential direction, the wedging part cooperating with the syringe body such that a distal surface of the flange part cooperatively abuts a proximal surface of the syringe flange, and

a bearing sleeve housing the syringe body, the bearing sleeve having at least one holding lug inserted on at least one of the radially extending recessed portions and cooperating with the syringe body at a proximal end of the syringe body to hold the syringe body in relation to the bearing sleeve.

11. The syringe device of claim 10, wherein the wedging part is retained between the bearing sleeve and the holding lug.