Injection apparatus and method for use
AssigneepHi-Tech Animal Health Technologies Ltd.
InventorsAsaf Halamish, Gershon Goldenberg
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Abstract
An injection apparatus for sequentially injecting a patient with at least two medicaments may include a hand-held unit comprising a grip for being held by an operator, a single needle, a base unit coupled to the hand-held unit via at least one connecting tube, at least two containers for holding medicaments removably coupled to the base unit, and at least one pump. The at least one connecting tube can be flexible enough to enable easy maneuvering of the hand-held unit and rigid enough to prevent widening of the tube due to inner pressure when medicaments pass from the containers to the hand-held unit. The injection apparatus can be used to administer the at least two medicaments sequentially at different injection points.
Claims18
An injection apparatus, comprising:
- a single needle;
- a plurality of dosing chambers fluidly coupled to the single needle;
- a needle sensor configured to determine an insertion depth of the single needle into a patient;
- at least one pump fluidly coupled to the plurality of dosing chambers, the at least one pump including a linear toothed driving shaft;
- at least one motor including a toothed gear configured to actuate the linear toothed driving shaft of the at least one pump;
- wherein the injection apparatus is configured to administer a plurality of medicaments sequentially at a plurality of injection sites;
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- wherein the injection apparatus is configured to administer a medicament of the plurality of medicaments automatically upon insertion of the single needle to a selected depth within the patient.
An injection apparatus, comprising:
- a hand-held unit comprising a head portion having a first end, a second end, and an intermediate segment between the first and second ends, a gripping portion extending at an angle from the intermediate segment of the head portion, and a single needle positioned at the first end of the head portion;
- a control panel configured to determine and display information relating to an injection process, the control panel coupled to the second end of the head portion of the hand-held unit;
- a plurality of dosing chambers fluidly coupled to the single needle;
- a base unit coupled to a plurality of medicament containers;
- at least one flexible connecting tube fluidly coupling the hand-held unit and the base unit, the flexible connecting tube configured to resist widening upon passage of medicament therethrough;
- at least one pump configured to pump medicament from the base unit to the hand-held unit, the at least one pump including a linear toothed member;
- at least one motor including a toothed gear configured to actuate the linear toothed member of the at least one pump;
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- a needle sensor configured to determine an insertion depth of the single needle into a patient, wherein the medicament is administered automatically upon insertion of the single needle to a selected depth into the patient.
An injection apparatus, comprising:
- a hand-held unit comprising a gripping portion, a head portion, and a single needle;
- a plurality of dosing chambers fluidly coupled to the single needle;
- a base unit coupled to a plurality of medicament containers;
- at least one flexible connecting tube fluidly coupling the hand-held unit and the base unit, the flexible connecting tube configured to resist widening upon passage of medicament therethrough;
- at least one pump configured to pump medicament from the base unit to the hand-held unit, the at least one pump including a linear toothed driving shaft;
- at least one motor including a toothed gear configured to actuate the linear toothed driving shaft of the at least one pump;
- a needle sensor configured to determine an insertion depth of the single needle into a patient, wherein the medicament is administered automatically upon insertion of the single needle to a selected depth into the patient;
- one or more temperature control units operatively coupled to the medicament containers, wherein the one or more temperature control units are one or more Peltier heating and cooling systems;
- one or more control panels configured to determine and display information relating to an injection process and to optionally transmit real-time data to a remote device;
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- a malfunction-identification system configured to identify malfunction of the injection apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.