433 results about "Auto-Injector" patented technology

A container for a product uses a location circuit for determining the location of the container, a storage element for storing a container identification code, a plurality of data acquisition components for acquiring status of at least two characteristics of at least one of the container, the product and a user of the product, and a communication interface for generating and sending a communication signal including (a) the container identification code from the storage element, (b) the location of the container from the location circuit, and (c) the status of the at least two characteristics from the data acquisition components. The container may be an auto-injector for containing a medicament, or a case for containing an item such as an auto-injector. Generally, the location circuit uses the global positioning system (GPS). The data acquisition components are chosen from a camera, and at least one sensor for sensing at least one of a thermal image, vibration, temperature, humidity, a chemical and an audio signal. The characteristic may be use of the product, or lack of use of at least one of the container and the product.

An injector is automatic in that the needle insertion into the injection site (e.g., a patient's skin) is triggered by the user or caregiver, the insertion is automatic, the following delivery is automatically initiated upon needle insertion, and the needle is shielded automatically after the end of delivery. Preferably the user does not see the needle prior to, during, or after injection. The injector includes a proximal and distal housings and a needle shield arranged to slide on the distal housing. The injector has a driver arranged to move the syringe to cause the needle penetration, to inject the drug, and subsequently to release the shield. The syringe needle is shielded and the shield locked automatically after delivery is completed. The patient does not experience any injector force on the tissue during injection. The injector has built in patient safety features.

A resettable training device and method for training a user on the operation of an auto-injector for dispensing a medicament are provided. The user can operate the training device to simulate an auto-injector operation and then reset the training device to repeat the injector operation. The training device includes a housing, a cover member slidably received within the housing between a retracted operative position and an extended inoperative position, a spring member for biasing the cover member into the extended position, an actuation assembly that controls the movement of the cover member from the retracted position to the extended position in response to activation of the trainer by the user, a safety pin, and in some embodiments at least one releasable locking assembly to prevent movement of the cover member from the extended position to the retracted position.

A drug delivery system includes an automatic injector that can deliver a small, precise amount of a therapeutic agent. The automatic injector includes a chamber for containing a liquid component and a thin porous member that carries thereon and/or therein the small, precise amount of therapeutic agent. Upon activation of the automatic injector, a flow path opens from the chamber through the porous member, enabling the liquid component to rapidly mix with the therapeutic agent before being injected.

An auto-injector automatically dispenses a predetermined dose of medicament upon activation. The auto-injector includes a needle cover operative to engage an injection site and activate the injector. The needle cover is configured to move from a locked retracted position prior to a medicament dispensing operation to a locked extended position after the medicament dispensing operation. The non-removable needle cover prevents contact with the needle both before and after the medicament dispensing operation.

An autoinjector system for injecting a fluid medicament into a patient includes a re-usable autoinjector, and a disposable cassette loaded with a hypodermic syringe pre-filled with a fluid medicament. The autoinjector includes a first motor for injecting a needle of the hypodermic syringe into the patient and a second motor for expelling the fluid medicament from the syringe.

The invention provides a syringe or autoinjector for dispensing a drug comprising a rigid syringe body containing the drug, an oxygen absorbing material, a separating element between the drug and oxygen absorbing material to prevent the drug from contacting the oxygen absorbing material but which allows oxygen to pass from the drug to the oxygen absorbing material, and an oxygen impermeable container enclosing both the drug and the oxygen absorbing material, wherein the oxygen impermeable container partially or fully forms the rigid syringe body or is held within the rigid syringe body.

An automatic injector comprising an improved energy management system as well as an improved shock absorber system adapted to reduce dynamic stresses on internal device components is provided. In particular, a shock absorber system comprising a stationary shock absorber is provided. In some embodiments, the stationary shock absorber is located in the nose of the automatic injector.

A bandolier of syringes for use in an automated syringe handling system is provided. The automated syringe handling system generally receives syringes and fills the syringe with a substance, such as a medicament. In one exemplary embodiment, the syringe handling system is a system that disperses one or more medicaments into the syringes in an automated manner. The bandolier includes a web, e.g., a strip of transparent material partially encapsulating bodies of syringes that are bound to the web at a prescribed interval. The bandolier includes a feature disposed within the prescribed interval and between the syringes with the feature being different from the surrounding web.

The present embodiments provide for a syringe cartridge system that can be used in combination with multiple couplings and injection systems. The syringe cartridge system can be provided in a vacuum packaging assembly configuration. Alternatively, the syringe cartridge system can be provided with a coupler attached to a safety device, a hypodermic needle, or a Luer adaptor. The syringe cartridge system can also be used in combination with an automatic injector.

A method for treating a bacterial, viral, fungal, or vector-induced disease state. A therapeutically effective dose of a metal substance is delivered to the body of a potentially infected organism using a delivery methodology selected from the group consisting of syringes, auto-injectors, pricking devices, buccal embedding, transdermal patches, needle transdermal patches, aerosol inhalers, ingestible dissolvable capsules, encapsulated boluses, needle encapsulated boluses, and electrode catheterization methodologies. The metal substance is selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, copper, zinc, selenium, platinum, and their ions, alloys, salts, and combinations thereof. Preferably, an electrical current is introduced substantially in the course of utilizing the delivery methodology. The electrical current is preferably substantially varied over time, and is still more preferably a reversing electrical current.

An autoinjector comprising a housing in which can be mounted a syringe comprising a barrel for holding a volume of medicament, a needle at one end of the barrel in fluid communication with the medicament and a plunger axially-moveable in the barrel to a forwardmost position, the autoinjector further comprising a syringe support means for supporting the barrel at an axial location at or forward of the forwardmost position of the plunger and having a reaction surface for the syringe, whereby in use said reaction surface (109) provides an axial compressive force on said barrel when a forward axial force is applied to the plunger.

An autoinjector device for delivering a dose of medicament including a syringe including a needle wherein, prior to use of the device, the needle is substantially covered by a needle sheath (107). The autoinjector further includes a housing (112) in which said syringe is located, an outer packaging in which said housing is located, where the outer packaging comprising a front packaging (101) part and a rear packaging part. The autoinjector also includes needle sheath removing means (103) associated with said front packaging part (101), wherein, prior to use of the device, said front and rear packaging parts cooperate together to entirely enclose said housing, syringe and needle sheath, and wherein, upon axial separation of said front and rear packaging parts, said needle sheath removing means is capable of causing axial separation of said needle sheath from said needle so as to remove said needle sheath therefrom.

The invention provides a delivery mechanism for an autoinjector comprising: a first drive member configured to drive a first component in an axial direction; a second drive member configured to drive a second component in an axial direction; and a release mechanism configured to control a sequence of release of the first drive member and the second drive member, wherein the release mechanism is positioned at least partially within the first or second drive member.