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US 11,383,025 B2Granted
Dual chamber and gear pump assembly for a high pressure delivery system
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsJames Bates, Robert Banik, Barry Ginsberg
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Abstract
A high pressure delivery system for delivering a medicament, comprising a first chamber for storing a supply of the medicament, a gear pump assembly in fluid communication with the first chamber, said gear pump assembly having a dose inlet and a dose discharge, said dose inlet having a larger diameter than said dose discharge to provide a high pressure discharge, and a fluid connection path in fluid communication with the gear pump assembly for delivering the medicament to a high pressure area.
Claims8
A high pressure delivery system for delivering a medicament, comprising:
- a first chamber for storing a supply of the medicament;
- a gear pump assembly in fluid communication with the first chamber, said gear pump assembly having a dose inlet and a dose discharge, said dose inlet having a larger diameter than said dose discharge to provide a high pressure discharge;
- and
- a fluid connection path in fluid communication with the gear pump assembly for delivering the medicament to a high pressure area;
- wherein
- pockets formed between adjacent teeth of a first gear and adjacent teeth of a second gear of the gear pump assembly each have a volume at a cross section defined when respective teeth of the first gear and the second gear are fully engaged;
- and
- the pockets gradually increase in volume in the defined cross section such that a gradually increasing rate of medicament is delivered during the dose.
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