US 11,633,548 B2 · Drug injection device with visual and audio indicators

Abstract

A drug injection device (10) including a housing (12) for holding a container (20) having a needle (24) for penetrating skin and a plunger (42) for expelling a drug stored in the container. The device includes visual and/or audible indicators for indicating that the correct depth of needle penetration has been achieved and that drug injection/extrusion has been started and/or completed. The device may further include a label (140) for visually confirming the quality of the drug contained therein. Alternatively, a tray (110) may be provided for receiving the drug injection device, which allows the quality of the drug contained therein to be visually confirmed.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A drug injection device comprising:

a housing for holding a container, the container storing a drug therein, the housing including at least one window that allows viewing of the drug in the container;
and
a drug test surface removably disposed over at least a portion of the housing and immediately adjacent to at least a portion of the at least one window in the housing, such that the drug in the container can be compared against the drug test surface to determine at least one of a clarity or a color of the drug by viewing the drug against the drug test surface through the at least one window of the housing.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/930,018Filed 12 May 2020 · continuation

Priority

14 Oct 2014

Published

US 2020/0390982 A117 Dec 2020

Granted

25 Apr 2023

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

A61M 5/3257
Being axially-extensible, e.g. protective sleeves coaxially slidable on the syringe barrel: semi-automatic sleeve extension, i.e. in which…
A61B 50/33
Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments: trays
A61M 5/3134
Syringe barrels: characterised by constructional features of the distal end, i.e. end closest to the tip of the needle cannula
A61M 5/3245
Being axially-extensible, e.g. protective sleeves coaxially slidable on the syringe barrel: constructional features thereof, e.g. to improve…

Family

Application62/063,737Us provisional application · filed 14 Oct 2014

PCT/US2015/055523Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Oct 2015

US 2020/0390982 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Dec 2020

Application15/501,953Parent of this continuation

US 10,695,506 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2017/0224934 A1Published application

US 11,633,548 B2This patent

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Drug injection device with visual and audio indicators

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Abstract

Claims13