Injector training device
AssigneeShl Medical AG
InventorsAntonio Bendek, Lucio Giambattista, Kuo-Chiang Tang
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Abstract
An auto-injection training device is presented that allows a user to simulate an injection procedure that occurs with a real-life commercial auto-injector containing a prefilled container of medicament. The training device is resettable, thus allowing the user to perform multiple simulations. Each simulation provides both audible and visual signals to the user that the injection procedure is in progress.
Claims10
A training device for simulating an injection procedure experience when using a real-life fully functional auto-injection device containing a pre-filled container of medicament, the training device comprising,
- an elongate outer housing having an inner surface, a proximal end and a distal end, the outer housing containing,
- a demo container axially and rotationally fixed relative to the outer housing;
- a plunger assembly having a non-rotating plunger, where a distal portion of the plunger is slidable within the demo container;
- a coiled spring having a distal end fixed axially relative to the outer housing and a proximal end attached to the plunger assembly such that the coiled spring is in an extended partially uncoiled tensed configuration when the plunger assembly is in a cocked position;
- a rotary damper gear assembly attached to a proximal end of the plunger assembly and having a gear rotatably engaged with a rack axially fixed to the inner surface of the outer housing;
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- a rotatable lock having a first position where the lock is engaged directly with the plunger to prevent the plunger from moving axially and a second position where the lock is disengaged from the plunger to allow the plunger to move axially relative to the lock and outer housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.