Adaptor for coupling with a medical container

• US 9,668,939 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2013
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Becton Dickinson Holdings Pte Ltd. (Becton, Dickinson & Co)
• Original Assignee: Becton Dickinson Holdings Pte Ltd. (Becton, Dickinson & Co)
• Inventors: Carrel, Franck, Perot, Frederic
• Primary Examiner(s): Zalukaeva, Tatyana
• Assistant Examiner(s): KLEIN, BENJAMIN JACOB
• Application Number:
  US14/375,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20150013811A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,586 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/1406 Septums, pierceable membranes
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/1425 Snap-fit type
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/1443 Containers with means for dispensing liquid medicaments in a filtered or sterile way, e.g. with bacterial filters
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/201 having one piercing end
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2055 having gripping means
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2058 having multiple connecting ports
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2075 for external venting
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2082 for gas filtration
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2096 Combination of a vial and a syringe for transferring or mixing their contents
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/50 using icons or symbolic figures, e.g. by a graphical representation symbolising the type of pathology or the organ by an image
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0472 of the count-down type, i.e. counting down a predetermined interval after each reset
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/9029 With coupling

Abstract

An adaptor for coupling with a vial having a collar closed by a septum, the septum having an outer surface directed towards the outside of the vial, the adaptor comprising: a gripping member for securing the adaptor to the vial, the gripping member being capable of being laterally mounted on the collar of the vial and a pierceable elastomeric piece having at least a part intended to be in contact with the outer surface of the septum when the adaptor is secured on the vial. Also, an assembly including such an adaptor and a vial.

Claims

1. An adaptor for coupling with a medical container having a collar closed by a septum, said septum having an outer surface directed towards the outside of the medical container, the adaptor comprising:

a gripping member including a clip, the gripping member configured to secure the adaptor to the medical container, said gripping member being capable of being laterally mounted on the collar of said medical container,

a pierceable elastomeric piece having at least a part configured to come into contact with the outer surface of the septum when said adaptor is secured on said medical container.

2. The adaptor of claim 1, wherein an entire surface of a distal face of said part of the pierceable elastomeric piece is configured to come into direct contact with the outer surface of the septum.

3. The adaptor of claim 1, further comprising a compressive member including a cap, the compressive member configured to press said pierceable elastomeric piece onto said outer surface of the septum, when said adaptor is secured on said medical container, said compressive member being capable to transition from an inactive state, in which it does not exert pressure on said pierceable elastomeric piece, to an active state, in which it exerts pressure.

4. The adaptor of claim 3, wherein the gripping member is provided with a plurality of first recesses with sloped distal faces and of second recesses, and the compressive member is provided with inner radial pegs, said inner radial pegs being engageable with at least one of said first recesses and second recesses.

5. The adaptor of claim 1, further comprising a fixing system configured to prevent releasing of said gripping member and definitively securing the adaptor on said medical container.

6. The adaptor of claim 1, further comprising a wall connected to said gripping member, said wall having a hole in which is lodged said pierceable elastomeric piece.

7. The adaptor of claim 6, wherein said wall is proximally deflectable.

8. The adaptor of claim 6, further comprising a cleaning pad, said cleaning pad being configured to at least partially slide on said outer surface of said septum when the adaptor is being mounted on the medical container,

wherein said clip comprises a lateral clipping member comprising a U-shaped element configured to be engaged on said collar via the open part of the U-shaped element, the curved part of the U-shaped element partially surrounding the collar and said wall is provided in the direction of free ends of the U-shaped element, with a projection provided with said cleaning pad.

9. The adaptor of claim 1, wherein said clip comprises a lateral clipping member comprising a U-shaped element configured to be engaged on said collar via the open part of the U-shaped element, the curved part of the U-shaped element partially surrounding the collar.

10. The adaptor of claim 1, further comprising a cleaning pad, said cleaning pad being configured to at least partially slide on said outer surface of said septum when the adaptor is being mounted on the medical container.

11. The adaptor of claim 10, wherein the cleaning pad comprises a disinfecting agent.

12. The adaptor of claim 10, wherein said cleaning pad is located on a removable part of said adaptor.

13. The adaptor of claim 12, wherein said removable part is a portion of a blister surrounding said adaptor in a storage state.

14. The adaptor of claim 13, wherein the blister is provided with a front guiding projection.

15. The adaptor of claim 1, further comprising a pierceable decontamination insert located proximally with respect to said elastomeric piece.

16. The adaptor of claim 1, wherein the pierceable elastomeric piece is self-resealing.

17. The adaptor of claim 1, wherein the elastomeric piece is made of a material selected from synthetic polyisoprene, natural rubber, silicone rubber, thermo-plastic elastomers, and combinations thereof.

18. The adaptor of claim 1, wherein the pierceable elastomeric piece further comprises a material including antiseptic agents.

19. The adaptor of claim 1, wherein the pierceable elastomeric piece comprises a coating comprising an antiseptic agent.

20. The adaptor of claim 1, further provided with a time monitoring system configured to monitor an elapsed time.

21. The adaptor of claim 20, wherein a blister surrounds said adaptor in a storage state, the time monitoring system being capable of being triggered once the adaptor is mounted on the collar of the drug container, by a peg of the blister coming in contact with the time monitoring system when a user applies a distal pressure on a shell of the blister.

22. An assembly comprising a medical container having a collar closed by a septum, said septum having an outer surface directed towards an outside of the medical container, and an adaptor according to claim 1.

23. The assembly of claim 22, wherein the septum is self-resealing.