527 results about "Needle free" patented technology

A vial adapter having a needle-free valve, a sharpened cannula used to perforate a vial's rubber stopper, and a circular array of claws of different lengths to engage vial closures of different diameters. The array of claws includes a first set of claws each having a first length extending inwardly from the periphery of the housing of the adapter and a second set of claws alternating with the first set of claws and each having a longer length. The second set of claws are mounted so that they deflect and plastically deform out of the way in the case where the adapter is engaged with a vial that exceeds a predetermined size. The housing includes a shroud that is at least as long as the sharpened cannula to protect medical personnel who use the adapter from inadvertent punctures. The needle-free valve includes a resiliently deformable piston element with a naturally open bore. The interior of the piston provides a fluid flow path through the adapter. In one embodiment, the first set of claws of the adapter may be used with a vial closure of at approximately 20 mm in diameter and the second set of claws may be used with a vial closure of approximately 13 to 17 mm in diameter.

A catheter integral with a valved needle-free connector provides a safety catheter device configured to receive a blunt cannula and sharp needle forming an insertion mechanism. The sharp needle is mounted within a needle tube and a control handle is used to slide the sharp needle out of and into the protective needle tube. When the insertion mechanism is mounted to the connector and the control handle is used to slide the sharp needle out of the tube, a blunt cannula first moves into contact with and enters the bore of the valve mechanism of the connector opening it and protecting it from damage that may be caused by the sharp needle. The sharp needle is then extended through the connector and extends out the distal end of the catheter so that a venipuncture procedure may be performed to properly locate the catheter in the patient's circulatory system. Once located, the needle may be retracted into the insertion mechanism, the insertion mechanism disconnected from the connector, and discarded.

A needle-free medical connector includes a housing with a first port and a second port. The connector also includes a piston element defining a fluid passageway between the first and second ports. The piston element is movable between flow and non-flow positions. The piston element has an expandable section having a variable inner width and volume that forms a part of the flow path through the connector. As the piston is compressed to the flow position, the expandable section is expanded in width by movement over a flow post thereby maintaining or increasing the volume of the fluid passageway through the connector. The expandable section has a configuration permitting the continuous flow of fluid through its entirety.

The present invention discloses a medical injector and medicament loading system for use therewith. The medicament loading system includes cap for a medicament cartridge. The cap has a post for causing movement of the cartridge stopper toward the seal when the cap engages the medicament cartridge to thereby eliminate adhesion between the medicament chamber and the stopper. The medical injector according to the present invention includes the medicament loading system, i.e., a cartridge assembly, a needle free syringe assembly, and a power pack assembly.

The invention discloses a saw tooth type needle-free electrostatic spinning device, which comprises a liquid supply system, a spinning system, a power supply system, a receiving system, a transmission system and a control system. The device is characterized in that the spinning system comprises a spinning manifold body, a spinning component and a center shaft; the exterior of the spinning manifold body has a horizontal cuboidal shape, and a horizontal cylindrical cavity is formed in the spinning manifold body; a main body of the center shaft is arranged in the cavity, and the two ends of the center shaft extend from the spinning manifold body, and are connected with the transmission system; the spinning component has an axially continuous or parallel thin rack structure, and points of a rack are outwards arranged on the center shaft, and can be driven by the center shaft to rotate; distances of 1 to 3mm are reserved between the points and the inner wall of the spinning manifold body; a liquid inlet pipe orifice of the spinning manifold body is communicated with a spinning metering pump of the liquid supply system, and an overflow port of the spinning manifold body is connected to a liquid storage device of the liquid supply system through a pipe, and is reserved between the bottom of the spinning component and the center shaft; and rectangular spinning openings are reserved in positions opposite to the highest parts of the spinning component on the upper surface of the spinning manifold body.

A device for delivering a drug includes a housing; at least one nozzle at a portion of the housing; a source of drug in the housing; and an energy source for providing a pressure of up to about 2,000 psi for driving the drug through the at least one nozzle and out of the housing. The drug is delivered to tissue under microjet propulsion. The device is particularly useful for drug delivery applications such as transdermal and ocular by way of example.

Formulations are described that are viscous and will benefit from needle-free delivery at high driving pressures. Conventional delivery of these viscous formulations by hypodermic syringes is inconvenient as well as painful. Formulations include those which have a viscosity of about 5 cS or more at about 20° C. and which can have 0.5 ml or more administered by a needle-free injector in about 0.1 second±0.02 seconds.

The invention discloses a step-by-step friction stir brazing method for a thick aluminium plate and a rigid dissimilar material. The method can be used for avoiding various problems such as needle abrasion (when a tool with a needle is used), insufficient interface heat, poor mechanical membrane rupture effect and the like existing in the direct friction stir brazing process of the thick aluminium plate and the rigid dissimilar material (such as stainless steel, copper, titanium and steel). The method comprises the following steps of: firstly brazing a thin aluminium plate on the to-be-brazed surface of a rigid dissimilar material through needle-free friction stir brazing, striping by virtue of a metallurgical factor and a mechanical factor, and extruding brazing filler metal, thus realizing a compact joint between the thin aluminium plate and the rigid dissimilar material; and welding the thin aluminium plate brazed on the rigid dissimilar material and a thick aluminium plate through friction stir brazing or friction stir welding, wherein when friction stir brazing is utilized to weld lap joint in the second step, the welding-on area can be obviously enlarged. The process can be used for completely preventing rigid parent metal from abrading a tool; and the interface welding-on of the thin aluminium plate and the dissimilar material is reliable. The method disclosed by the invention can be used for preparing aluminium/stainless steel contact rails and aluminium/copper transition joints.

A needle-free transdermal transport device includes a chamber (900) for holding the substance to be injected, a nozzle (910) in fluid communication with the chamber, and a drug reservoir (950) for storing the substance to he transferred to the chamber. The needle-free transdermal transport device also includes a controllable magnet and coil electromagnetic actuator (242) in communication with the chamber. The actuator receives an electrical input and generates in response a force. The force then causes a needle-free transfer of the substance from the chamber to the biological body. The force is variable responsive to variations in the received input during actuation. The actuator draws the substance from the drug reservoir or alternatively, the substance can be pressurized from the drug reservoir into the chamber by a pressure source.

The invention discloses an embedded stirring and rubbing slit welding method for dissimilar metals, which is especially suitable for large-area lap connection of aluminum or magnesium or harder metal materials. The embedded stirring and rubbing slit welding method comprises the steps of: firstly, processing one or more dovetail grooves on a second harder base material; secondly, assembling according to a lap connection form, and placing an aluminum plate on the upper sides of the dovetail grooves of the second harder base material; using a needle-free stirring head and installing in an inclining manner; starting the stirring head to rotate and enabling the stirring head to be in contact with the upper surface of the aluminum plate, wherein the pressing depth of the stirring head is limited to about between 0.1mm and 2mm and a welding interface needs not to be penetrated; after rubbing and preheating for several seconds at the starting end, moving the rotating stirring head or operating platform so that the aluminum plate is helically extruded in a groove of a lower plate and the welding or cladding is completed. Compared with the resistance slit welding, the method disclosed by the invention has remarkable energy saving advantage. Compared with the traditional stirring rubbing welding, the method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of no keyhole and no abrasion to needles by the harder base material. The method can be used for welding, and can also be used for preparing a bimetal composite plate.

A bottomed, tubular hollow elastic body that opens toward an outlet side of a drug solution flow path is accommodated and arranged in an accommodation part formed in a housing, and a middle protrusion is provided protruding toward an inlet side of the drug solution flow path from a center part of a bottom wall of the hollow elastic body. Insertion of a male luer causes the bottom wall of the hollow elastic body to be elastically deformed so as to enter inside a peripheral wall, increasing the volume of the drug solution flow path, which is formed between an outer surface of the hollow elastic body and an inner surface of the accommodation part. Removing the male luer and canceling the elastic deformation of the hollow elastic body causes the volume of the drug solution flow path to be reduced.