Drug delivery device with activation prevention feature
AssigneeAmgen Inc.
InventorsBrian Stonecipher, Margaux Frances Boyaval, James Chan, Avon Kuo, Allan Lee Cameron, Maxwell Franklin Bischoff, Gregg Allen Flender
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Abstract
A wearable drug delivery device includes an injector having a housing, a reservoir, a needle or cannula, a drive mechanism for urging drug product out of the reservoir, through the needle or cannula, and to a patient, and an activator mechanism disposed on a surface of the housing for activating the drive mechanism. An activation prevention mechanism is coupled to the injector housing and/or activation prevention mechanism to prevent inadvertent actuation of the activator mechanism.
Claims10
A wearable drug delivery device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a reservoir adapted to store a drug product;
- a needle or cannula in fluid communication with the reservoir;
- an activator mechanism disposed on an external surface of the housing, the activator mechanism including an activator button and a stem at least partially extending out of the housing and connected to the activator button;
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- an activation prevention mechanism removably coupled to the housing and/or the activator mechanism to prevent inadvertent actuation of the activator mechanism, wherein the activation prevention mechanism is adapted to be at least partially disposed between the external surface of the housing and the activator mechanism;
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- wherein the activation prevention mechanism includes one of:
- (1) a plurality of forks defining a gap to accommodate an activator stem of the activator mechanism, at least one of the plurality of forks including a catch protruding inwardly;
- or (2) prongs to define a chamber to receive the activator mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.