Process and autoinjector device for injections with increased patient comfort
AssigneeBattelle Memorial Institute
InventorsWilliam G. Atterbury, Douglas E. Boyd
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AssigneeBattelle Memorial Institute
InventorsWilliam G. Atterbury, Douglas E. Boyd
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The invention provides methods and apparatus for injecting a medicine, especially a highly viscous medicine. Conventional methods and apparatus for injecting viscous medicines suffers suffer from a variety of problems such as excessive force during the initial needle insertion and initial injection. In an inventive method, during the initial phase of the injection, energy is stored in a torsion spring that is subsequently released during a later stage of the injection. The present invention also provides for an improved autoinjector; especially via the use of a combination compression and torsion spring that powers the injection through controlling force applied to a plunger via a screw flange or nut having pins that ride in a prescribed path down the length of the autoinjector.
A method of injecting a medicament from a syringe, comprising:
A method of injecting a medicament from a syringe, comprising:
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