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US 10,946,147 B2Granted
Cap assembly for covering a needle shield and method for assembling the cap assembly
AssigneeSanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
InventorsThomas Mark Kemp, Louise Hodgson
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Abstract
The disclosure refers to a cap assembly for covering a needle shield of an injection device, the cap assembly comprising: a collar, and a cap with a sheath and a bottom, wherein the collar is movable along a longitudinal direction relative to the sheath from an unlocked position not engaging the sheath towards a locked position, force-lockingly engaging the sheath, thereby locking the sheath to the needle shield.
Claims12
An arrangement comprising:
- a cap assembly for covering a needle shield of an injection device, wherein the cap assembly comprises:
- a collar;
- and
- a cap with a sheath and a bottom, the collar being attached to the cap,
- wherein the collar, when attached to the cap, is movable along a longitudinal direction relative to the sheath from an unlocked position not engaging the sheath towards a locked position,
- wherein, in the locked position, the sheath is force-lockingly engaged with the collar to lock the sheath to the needle shield,
- wherein the collar is radially compressible, and
- wherein the arrangement further comprises the needle shield.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.