Injector device

• US 9,919,106 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2015
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Steven A. Friedman
• Original Assignee: Steven Friedman
• Inventors: Friedman, Steven A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenberg, Rebecca E
• Application Number:
  US14/812,928
• Publication Number:
  US 20150328411A1
• Time in Patent Office: 965 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/2013 triggering of discharging means by contact of injector with patient body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/206 With automatic needle insertion
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/2073 preventing premature release, e.g. by making use of a safety lock
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/314 Flat shaped barrel forms, e.g. credit card shaped
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/19 Constructional features of carpules, syringes or blisters
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3553 remote, e.g. between patient's home and doctor's office
• 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 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3633 thermally insulated
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/60 with identification means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6054 Magnetic identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6072 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8206 battery-operated
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/008 Racks for supporting syringes or needles A61M5/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/20 Automatic syringes, e.g. with automatically actuated piston rod, with automatic needle injection, filling automatically A61M5/142 , A61M5/46 take precedence; hypodermic projectiles F42B12/54
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/2033 : Spring-loaded one-shot injectors with or without automatic needle insertion multishot dosing syringes A61M5/31525, needle insertion only A61M5/3287
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/28 : Syringe ampoules or carpules, i.e. ampoules or carpules provided with a needle
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31 : Details
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3129 : Syringe barrels A61M5/3205 and A61M5/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3204 : Needle cap remover, i.e. devices to dislodge protection cover from needle or needle hub, e.g. deshielding devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3287 : Accessories for bringing the needle into the body; Automatic needle insertion A61M5/20, A61M5/31525 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 : delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 : for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0252 : by means of a snap-on mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 : Details of the structure or mounting of specific components
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/21 : Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads

Abstract

An injector device for the percutaneous injection of fluids, such as medications, is disclosed. The device can have a mobile phone case. The mobile phone case can hold an auto-injector cartridge having a trigger, spring-loaded needle and reservoir holding a medication such as epinephrine or insulin. The device mobile phone case can communicate injection data to the phone. The phone can communicate the injection data to an emergency service provider.

Claims

1. An injector system comprising:

a phone;

a phone case comprising a reservoir, wherein the phone case further comprises a heat shield, a needle in fluid communication with the reservoir, a trigger and a spring; and

wherein the phone case is configured to deform during attachment or detachment to the phone, and wherein the heat shield is between the phone and the reservoir, wherein the reservoir comprises a fluid; and

wherein the trigger has a first configuration inside of the phone case and a second configuration extending from the phone case further comprising at least one configuration of the system the needle is at least partially inside of the trigger.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the heat shield has a thermal conductivity k from 0.020 W/mK to 0.40 W/mK.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the spring is positioned against the trigger, and wherein the spring is in a compressed configuration when the trigger is in the first configuration, and wherein the spring is in an extended configuration when the trigger is in the second configuration.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the trigger and the needle extend from the same end of the phone case.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the needle is configured to slidably translate within the trigger.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the reservoir comprises a fluid, and where the fluid comprises a medication.

7. An injector system comprising:

a mobile phone;

a phone case comprising a reservoir, a needle in fluid communication with the reservoir, and a trigger, wherein the reservoir comprises a fluid, and wherein the needle has a first configuration inside of the phone case and a second configuration extending from the phone case, and wherein the phone case is configured to be removably snapped-in to the phone; and

a heat shield located between the reservoir and the phone;

wherein in at least one configuration of the system the needle is at least partially inside of the trigger.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the needle is spring-loaded in the case.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the reservoir comprises a fluid, and where the fluid comprises epinephrine and/or insulin.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the reservoir and the heat shield are between the phone case and the phone.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the phone case further comprises a frame bottom and a frame top, and wherein the frame bottom is configured to releasably attach to the frame top.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the phone case further comprises a data communication element comprising at least one of a plug or an outlet in data communication with the phone, and wherein the phone case is configured to transmit data to the phone through the communication element when at least one of the trigger is released, the needle is deployed, a safety catch is released, or contents of the reservoir are delivered.