Syringe

• US 9,550,026 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2011
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daicel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Daicel Corporation
• Inventors: Oda, Shingo
• Primary Examiner(s): Stigell, Theodore
• Assistant Examiner(s): Legette, Tiffany
• Application Number:
  US13/825,780
• Publication Number:
  US 20140200512A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,951 Days
• Field of Search: 604/48, 604/68, 604/69, 604140-148, 128/203.26
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/2046 Media being expelled from injector by gas generation, e.g. explosive charge
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/30 Syringes for injection by jet action, without needle, e.g. for use with replaceable ampoules or carpules

Abstract

It is possible to feed an injection objective substance to a depth of a skin structure of an objective living body without using any injection needle. A syringe having no injection needle comprises an ignition device which includes an ignition charge containing a fuel component and an oxidizing agent component, a combustion chamber into which a combustion product produced by a reaction of the fuel component and the oxidizing agent component during combustion of the ignition charge is allowed to flow and which accommodates a gas generating agent that is combustible by the combustion product to generate a predetermined gas, and an enclosing unit which encloses the injection objective substance, wherein the injection objective substance enclosed in the enclosing unit is pressurized by a pressure in the combustion chamber in this construction. The fuel component and the oxidizing agent component contained in the ignition charge are determined so that any component, which behaves as a gas, is excluded from the combustion product when the combustion product is at ordinary temperature in the case where the fuel component and the oxidizing agent component are mixed at a stoichiometric ratio and combusted, and a cooling member is arranged in the combustion chamber so that the cooling member can be brought in contact with the combustion product produced by the combustion of the ignition charge to cool the combustion product.

Claims

1. A syringe for injecting an injection objective substance into an injection target area of a living body without using an injection needle, the syringe comprising:

an ignition device which includes an ignition charge containing a fuel component and an oxidizing agent component;

a combustion chamber into which a combustion product produced by a reaction of the fuel component and the oxidizing agent component during combustion of the ignition charge is allowed to flow and which accommodates a gas generating agent that is combustible by the combustion product to generate a predetermined gas;

an enclosing unit which encloses the injection objective substance;

a pressurizing unit which is constructed to pressurize the injection objective substance enclosed in the enclosing unit by means of a pressure in the combustion chamber;

a flow passage unit which defines a flow passage so that the injection objective substance, which is pressurized by the pressurizing unit, is allowed to inject to the injection target area of the living body, and a cooling member which is arranged in the combustion chamber so that the cooling member can be brought in contact with the combustion product produced by the combustion of the ignition charge to cool the combustion product, the cooling member having a side surface of a cylindrical outer shape including a plurality of through-holes or mesh holes and a hollow chamber, the hollow chamber defining at least a portion of the flow passage, the side surface of the cooling member being in a direction in which the combustion product flows into the combustion chamber such that the whole combustion product is not cooled to an ordinary temperature by the cooling member, the ordinary temperature being different from and lower than a high temperature which is provided immediately after the combustion reaction of the fuel component, wherein, the fuel component and the oxidizing agent component contained in the ignition charge are determined so that any component, which behaves as a gas, is excluded from the combustion product when the combustion product is at the ordinary temperature in the case where the fuel component and the oxidizing agent component are mixed at a stoichiometric ratio and combusted.

2. The syringe according to claim 1, wherein the pressurizing unit has:

a first pressurizing mode in which a pressure applied to the injection objective substance in the pressurizing unit is raised to a first peak pressure in order to allow the injection objective substance to penetrate through a surface of the injection target area, and then the pressure applied to the injection objective substance is lowered to a waiting pressure; and

a second pressurizing mode in which the injection objective substance having the waiting pressure is pressurized so that the pressure applied to the injection objective substance is raised to a second peak pressure to inject a predetermined injection amount of the injection objective substance.

3. The syringe according to claim 1, wherein the cooling member is formed of a material made of metal.

4. The syringe according to claim 1, wherein:

the cooling member is a metal member and the metal member is provided so that the pressure, which is brought about by the predetermined gas and the combustion product produced in the combustion chamber, is transmitted to the injection objective substance.

5. The syringe according to claim 1, wherein the ignition charge is any one of explosive charges of an explosive charge containing zirconium and potassium perchlorate, an explosive charge containing titanium hydride and potassium perchlorate, an explosive charge containing titanium and potassium perchlorate, an explosive charge containing aluminum and potassium perchlorate, an explosive charge containing aluminum and bismuth oxide, an explosive charge containing aluminum and molybdenum oxide, an explosive charge containing aluminum and copper oxide, and an explosive charge containing aluminum and iron oxide, or an explosive charge composed of a combination of a plurality of the foregoing explosive charges.

6. The syringe according to claim 1, wherein the cooling member is arranged along a side wall of the combustion chamber so that a central axis thereof in the extending direction is mutually overlapped with that of the combustion chamber.