Apparatus, system and method for fluid delivery

• US 9,456,955 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2013
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deka Products Limited Partnership
• Original Assignee: Deka Products Limited Partnership
• Inventors: Foo, Bright C. K., Lanigan, Richard J., Lanier, Gregory R. Jr., Kamen, Dean, Grant, Kevin L., Panneton, Lisa A.
• Primary Examiner(s): NIESZ, JASON KAROL
• Application Number:
  US13/788,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20140048174A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,307 Days
• Field of Search: 141 21- 27, 141/44, 141/383, 604/131, 604/132, 604151-153, 604/257, 604/890.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/20 Arrangements for transferring or mixing fluids, e.g. from vial to syringe
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2096 Combination of a vial and a syringe for transferring or mixing their contents
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14268 with a reusable and a disposable component
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/0266 Shape memory materials
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3331 Pressure; Flow
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3368 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3375 Acoustical, e.g. ultrasonic, measuring means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3393 by weighing the reservoir
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3515 using magnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3546 Range
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3576 with non implanted data transmission devices, e.g. using external transmitter or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/59 Aesthetic features, e.g. distraction means to prevent fears of child patients
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6018 providing set-up signals for the apparatus configuration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/70 with testing or calibration facilities
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/7536 allowing gas passage, but preventing liquid passage, e.g. liquophobic, hydrophobic, water-repellent membranes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8237 Charging means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/045 for filling, e.g. for filling reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/086 : Docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1413 : Modular systems comprising interconnecting elements
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 : Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 : adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14248 : of the skin patch type
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16809 : by repeated filling and emptying of an intermediate volume pressure infusion using positive displacement pumps A61M5/142
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16886 : for measuring fluid flow rate, i.e. flowmeters
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/172 : electrical or electronic A61M5/16804, A61M5/16831 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 3/003 : Filling medical containers such as ampoules, vials, syringes or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/086 : using an auxiliary pressure to cooperate with the diaphragm or bellows
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 7/0647 : the plurality of throttling means being arranged in series
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 7/0676 : by action on flow sources G05D7/0688, G05D7/0694 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 : delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/273 : Adaptation for carrying or wearing by persons or animals
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 : Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/265 : Open ring dipoles; Circular dipoles

Abstract

A filling aid. The filling aid includes a needle housing portion including at least one tab having a starting position and a filling position, and a filling needle cradle including a filling needle, the filling needle cradle slidable connected to the needle housing portion and having a starting position and a filling position, wherein when the at least one tab on the needle housing moves from a starting position to a filling position, the filling needle cradle slides from a starting position to a filling position, and wherein when the at least one tab on the needle housing moves from a filling position to a starting position, the filling needle cradle slides from a filling position to a starting position.

Claims

1. A fill adapter for filling a reservoir comprising:

a housing having a cavity portion configured to attach to a reservoir;

a filling aid base connected to the housing configured to receive a filling aid;

a button assembly actuator springingly attached to the housing, the button assembly actuator comprising one or more button assemblies; and

a pump chamber plunger actuator located in the cavity portion of the housing, wherein the pump chamber plunger actuator actuates a pump chamber membrane in the reservoir before the at least one button assembly is actuated.

2. The fill adapter of claim 1 further comprising a mechanism for locking a reservoir into the cavity portion.

3. The fill adapter of claim 1 further comprising at least one tab for releasably locking a reservoir into the cavity portion.

4. The fill adapter of claim 3 wherein at least one tab further comprising a ramping portion.

5. The fill adapter of claim 1 wherein the filling aid base comprising a cylindrical structure comprising an opening to the cavity portion.

6. The fill adapter of claim 1 wherein the filling aid base further comprising a groove at the base of the filling aid base.

7. The fill adapter of claim 1 further comprising wherein the filling aid base further comprising a tongue feature.

8. A system for filling a reservoir comprising:

a disposable housing assembly comprising a reservoir;

a fill adapter for releasably engaging the disposable housing assembly, the fill adapter comprising;

a pump chamber plunger

a housing having a cavity portion configured to attach to the disposable housing assembly;

a filling aid base connected to the housing configured to receive the filling aid; and

a button assembly actuator springingly attached to the housing, the button assembly actuator comprising one or more button assemblies; and

a filling aid configured to releasably engage the fill adapter,

wherein the pump chamber plunger actuates a pump chamber in the disposable housing assembly when the disposable housing assembly and the fill adapter are engaged.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the filling aid comprising:

a needle housing portion comprising at least one tab having a starting position and a filling position; and

a filling needle cradle comprising a filling needle, the filling needle cradle slidably connected to the needle housing portion and having a starting position and a filling position,

wherein when the at least one tab on the needle housing moves from a starting position to a filling position, the filling needle cradle slides from a starting position to a filling position.

10. The system of claim 8 further comprising a filling syringe, the filling syringe configured to connect to the filling aid.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the filling needle cradle further comprising a connector for a filling syringe.