Protective Shroud for Medicament Vials Absorbing Impact Forces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Fragile medical receptacles, such as glass bottles, pose a risk of breakage and accidental medicament exposure or spillage when attempting to administer fluid medicaments, especially in challenging conditions like outdoors or while riding, due to the difficulty in handling and inserting a syringe needle through a pierceable closure.
Innovation Solution
A protective housing with a shroud top and base that absorbs forces, featuring a spike for piercing the receptacle and a connector for safe medicament dispensing, along with redundant safety measures like tamper prevention and valves to prevent backflow, ensuring safe and controlled administration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a protective container is used to house the glass receptacle, then the risk of breakage is reduced, but the risk of accidental injection and spillage persists
Solution Approach 1:
A spike assembly acts as an intermediary mechanism between the protective container and the receptacle. The spike is pre-positioned inside the container and automatically pierces the pierceable closure when the container is opened, providing a controlled pathway for medicament transfer without requiring direct manual manipulation of the receptacle by the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The spike is pre-positioned and pre-loaded within the protective container during manufacturing. When the container is opened for use, the spike automatically moves to pierce the receptacle closure without requiring additional user action, ensuring the piercing action occurs at the optimal moment and reducing the chance of accidental exposure during the piercing process.
2Ease of operation
If a syringe needle is inserted through the pierceable closure to withdraw medicament, then the medicament can be administered, but the handling difficulty and risk increase in challenging conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The protective container system performs the piercing action automatically through its own structure. The spike is integrated into the container and is positioned such that opening the container or removing the cap causes the spike to pierce the receptacle closure autonomously, eliminating the need for the user to manually insert a needle through the closure in challenging conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The protective container combines multiple functions into a single integrated system: it provides physical protection for the glass receptacle, houses and positions the piercing spike, and facilitates controlled medicament transfer. This merging of protection, piercing, and dispensing functions into one system simplifies operation and reduces handling risks.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosed embodiments include a protective housing for a fragile article for containing fluid medicament. The protective housing includes a shroud top including an upper collar for absorbing one or more forces, a shroud base configured to receive the shroud top and including a lower collar for absorbing one or more forces, a spike configured to pierce the fragile article and coupled to the shroud top or the shroud base, and a connector located at the shroud top or the shroud base, the connector configured to provide the fluid medicament from the fragile article to an injector