Drug Delivery Device with Drug Container Comprising a Sensor and Optical Data Transmission System
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Abstract
A container designed to contain a fluid medicament and adapted to cooperate with a delivery device for delivering the fluid medicament comprises an electrically operable sensor system for measuring at least one physical or chemical parameter value related to the container and/or fluid medicament therein, wherein the sensor system comprises an optical receiver designed to receive optical radiation energy and to transform said optical radiation energy into electrical energy for operating the sensor system.
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28 Claims
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1-14. -14. (canceled)
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15. A container designed to contain a fluid medicament and adapted to cooperate with a delivery device for delivering the fluid medicament, wherein the container comprises an electrically operable sensor system for measuring at least one physical or chemical parameter value related to the container and/or the fluid medicament therein, and wherein the sensor system comprises
(a) an optical receiver designed to receive optical radiation energy and to transform said optical radiation energy into electrical energy for operating the sensor system and (b) an optical transmitter designed to receive a second electrical signal and to transform the second electrical signal into a second optical signal.
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20. A delivery device for delivering a fluid medicament from a container comprising
a piston rod and an electrically operable sensor system for measuring at least one physical or chemical parameter value related to the container and/or the fluid medicament therein, wherein the container is a cartridge which is closed in one end by a movable bung operable by the piston rod and a control unit, wherein the control unit comprises an optical radiation source, and wherein the sensor system is arranged between the piston rod and the movable bung, and wherein the sensor system comprises an optical receiver designed to receive optical radiation energy emitted by the optical radiation source and to transform said optical radiation energy into electrical energy for operating the sensor system.
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23. A delivery device according to claim to 6 to 8, wherein the sensor system comprises an optical transmitter designed to receive the second electrical signal and to transform the second electrical signal into the second optical signal.
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