Ampule opener with multifunctional plunger
AssigneeHeraeus Medical GmbH
InventorsSebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Abstract
A device for dispensing a liquid from a glass ampule, comprising a housing, a holder arranged in the housing for receiving a glass ampule, a projection which is arranged in the housing and designed and configured to break open a glass ampule which can be received in the holder, an outlet for dispensing a liquid from the housing, and a plunger movably arranged in the housing, wherein the plunger is designed and configured to break open a glass ampule, which can be received in the holder, by the pressure of the glass ampule against the projection, and to pump the liquid from the glass ampule out of the outlet of the housing.
Claims14
A device for dispensing a liquid from a glass ampule, comprising:
- a housing;
- a holder arranged in the housing for receiving a glass ampule with a liquid;
- a projection which is arranged in the housing and is designed and configured to break open a glass ampule which can be received in the holder;
- an outlet for dispensing a liquid from the housing;
- a plunger arranged movably in the housing, wherein the plunger is designed and configured to break open a glass ampule, which can be received in the holder, by pressure of the glass ampule against the projection, and to pump the liquid from the glass ampule out of the outlet of the housing;
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- a valve configured to allow air to flow into the housing from the outside in order to subsequently pump a liquid from a glass ampule broken open in the device out of the housing by the pressure of the plunger onto the air flowing into the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.