A61M 5/348
Snap lock, i.e. upon axial displacement of needle assembly
Official title: {snap lock, i.e. upon axial displacement of needle assembly (A61M5/344 takes precedence)}
A61M5/348 (Snap lock, i.e. upon axial displacement of needle assembly) appears on 188 US grants and 207 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Safety IV catheter with V-clip interlock and needle tip capture22 Sep 2026US 12,741,123 B2Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Medication delivery device with needle carrier16 Jun 2026US 12,653,954 B2Eli Lilly and Company
- Glass syringe barrels with increased cone breaking forces21 Oct 2025US 12,447,275 B2SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
- Medicament injection device23 Sep 2025US 12,420,028 B2Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
- Hard-packaged safety needle device19 Aug 2025US 12,390,601 B2Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Shielded needle unit with actuatable mounting feature1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295173 A1
- Shielded needle unit with actuatable container coupling24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284310 A1
- Medicament delivery assembly22 Jan 2026US 2026/0021252 A1
- Apparatus and methods for ocular injection13 Nov 2025US 2025/0345206 A1Clearside Biomedical, Inc.
- System for long-term storage of a pharmaceutical composition6 Nov 2025US 2025/0339622 A1SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Safety syringe for mixing two-component medicaments297US 5,360,410 ASenetek PLC · 1994
- Automatic medicament injector employing non-coring needle278US 5,709,668 ASenetek PLC · 1998
- 5mm injection needle187US 6,200,296 B1Becton, Dickinson and Company · 2001
- Medication delivery pen having a 31 gauge needle172US 6,146,361 ABecton, Dickinson and Company · 2000
- Mixing and delivery syringe assembly156US 5,531,683 AScience Incorporated · 1996