Drug delivery device and set of a drug delivery device and a plurality of mountable elements

• US 9,669,202 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2010
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Sanofi )
• Original Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Sanofi )
• Inventors: Ekman, Matthew, Smith, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Bosques, Edelmira
• Assistant Examiner(s): Engel, Matthew A
• Application Number:
  US13/382,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20120238960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,531 Days
• Field of Search: 604207, 604209, 604211, 604189, 12820014
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3125 specific display means, e.g. to indicate dose setting
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 35/003 Portable hand-held applicators having means for dispensing or spreading integral media hand-held massage devices with liquid delivery A61H7/003
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 37/00 Other apparatus for introducing media into the body for reproduction or fertilisation A61B17/425; apparatus for iontophoresis or cataphoresis A61N1/30; Percutany, i.e. introducing medicines into the body by diffusion through the skin salt baths A61H33/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/003 Kits for diabetics

Abstract

A drug delivery device is configured to receive a cartridge containing a drug. The drug delivery device comprises a content display for displaying information related to one of the cartridge and the drug contained in the cartridge. The content display is configured to selectively display at least two different pieces of information and is configured to be adjusted mechanically to display one of the pieces of information. Furthermore, a set of the drug delivery device and a plurality of mountable elements is provided, wherein the mountable elements differ in their shapes and wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for the shape of the mountable element.

Claims

1. A drug delivery device configured to receive a cartridge containing a drug, the drug delivery device comprising a dose display for displaying a size of a set dose of the drug and a mechanically adjustable content display for displaying information related to one of the cartridge and the drug contained in the cartridge,

wherein the adjustable content display is configured to selectively display at least two different pieces of information and wherein the adjustable content display is configured such that one of the at least two different pieces of information is displayed only through direct mechanical adjustment of the adjustable content display without consuming electrical power from the drug delivery device, and where the dose display and the adjustable content display are two separate displays positioned at different locations on the drug delivery device,

wherein the drug delivery device further comprises a main body and a mountable element, the drug delivery device having an unmounted state, in which the mountable element is not mounted to the main body, and a mounted state, in which the mountable element is mounted to the main body,

wherein the mountable element is one of the cartridge and a cartridge retaining part,

wherein the mountable element comprises an actuating member,

wherein an adjustment member is operable by the actuating member and

wherein the adjustable content display is adjustable to display one of the pieces of information by operating the adjustment member with the actuating member,

wherein at least one of the main body and the mountable element comprise a connector configured to secure the mountable element to the main body,

wherein the connector is configured for a screw-type connection of the mountable element and the main body and

wherein the adjustment member is configured to be driven by a relative rotational movement of the mountable element and the main body.

2. The drug delivery device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the pieces of information comprises a name of a drug.

3. The drug delivery device according to claim 1 comprising a lock configured to permanently lock the content display to display one of the pieces of information.

4. The drug delivery device according to claim 1,

wherein the mountable element has a longitudinal axis and

wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for the angular position of the actuating member according to the longitudinal axis.

5. The drug delivery device according to claim 1 comprising a resilient member directly connected to the content display to maintain the content display in a neutral display in an unmounted state of the drug delivery device.

6. The drug delivery device according to claim 1 comprising coding elements configured to allow the mounting of a certain type of cartridge or a cartridge containing a certain drug and configured to prevent a mounting of a non-matching cartridge.

7. A set of the drug delivery device according to claim 1 and a plurality of mountable elements,

wherein the plurality of mountable elements is one of a plurality of cartridges and a plurality of cartridge retaining parts mountable to the drug delivery device,

wherein the mountable elements differ in their shapes and

wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for the shape of the mountable element.

8. A drug delivery device configured to receive a cartridge containing a drug, the drug delivery device comprising a dose display for displaying a size of a set dose of the drug and a mechanically adjustable content display for displaying information related to one of a specific type of drug, and a specific composition of the drug contained in the cartridge

wherein the content display is configured to selectively display at least two different pieces of information and wherein the content display is configured such that one of the at least two different pieces of information is displayed only through direct mechanical adjustment of the content display without consuming electrical power from the drug delivery device, and where the dose display and the content display are two separate displays positioned at different locations on the drug delivery device,

wherein the drug delivery device comprises a main body and a mountable element, the drug delivery device having an unmounted state in which the mountable element Is not mounted to the main body, and a mounted state, in which the mountable element is mounted to the main body,

wherein the mountable element is one of a cartridge and a cartridge retaining part, wherein the main body comprises a first coding means and the mountable element comprises a second coding means and

wherein by adjusting the content display the first coding means are adjusted such that the mountable element is mountable if the second coding means matches an adjusted first coding means and a mounting is blocked by a mechanical interaction of the first coding means and the second coding means if the second coding means does not match the adjusted first coding means.

9. The drug delivery device according to claim 8 comprising an adjustment dial operable by a user, wherein the content display is adjustable to display one of the pieces of information by operating the adjustment dial.

10. The drug delivery device according to claim 8,

wherein the mountable element comprises an actuating member,

wherein the content display comprises an adjustment member operable by the actuating member and

wherein the content display is adjustable to display one of the pieces of information by operating the adjustment member with the actuating member.

11. The drug delivery device according to claim 10, wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for one of the position of the actuating member on the mountable element and the shape of the actuating member.

12. A drug delivery device configured to receive a cartridge containing a drug, the drug delivery device comprising a dose display for displaying a size of a set dose of the drug and a mechanically adjustable content display for displaying information related to one of the cartridge and the drug contained in the cartridge,

wherein the adjustable content display is configured to selectively display at least two different pieces of information and wherein the adjustable content display is configured such that one of the at least two different pieces of information is displayed only through direct mechanical adjustment of the adjustable content display without consuming electrical power from the drug delivery device, and where the dose display and the adjustable content display are two separate displays positioned at different locations on the drug delivery device,

wherein the drug delivery device further comprises a main body and a mountable element, the drug delivery device having an unmounted state, in which the mountable element is not mounted to the main body, and a mounted state, in which the mountable element is mounted to the main body,

wherein the mountable element is one of the cartridge and a cartridge retaining part,

wherein the mountable element comprises an actuating member,

wherein an adjustment member is operable by the actuating member and

wherein the adjustable content display is adjustable to display one of the pieces of information by operating the adjustment member with the actuating member,

wherein at least one of the main body and the mountable element comprise a connector configured to secure the mountable element to the main body

wherein the connector is configured for a bayonet-type connection of the mountable element and the main body and

wherein the adjustment member is configured to be driven by a relative translational movement of the mountable element and the main body.

13. The drug delivery device according to claim 12,

wherein the mountable element has a longitudinal axis,

wherein the actuating member extends along the longitudinal axis of the mountable element and

wherein the displayed piece of information is specific for the length of the actuating member along the longitudinal axis.