Apparatus for automatic insertion of a solid medicine
AssigneeNovo Nordisk A/S
InventorMads Christian Sabra
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Abstract
An apparatus for insertion of a medicine peg (3) into the skin (4) has a barrel (2) wherein the medicine peg (2) is stored and in which a plunger (8) behind said peg (2) can be moved to press the peg out through an end of the barrel (2) pressed against the skin (4) where it is intended to insert the peg (3), The plunger (8) is a part of a flexible rod construction (6, 7, 8) which can be passed from a first non rectilinear constellation, by which the plunger (8) is withdrawn in the barrel (2) to a position leaving space for the medicine peg (3) in front of the plunger (8), to a rectilinear constellation by which the plunger (8) projects from the end of the barrel (2) and further to a new non rectilinear position in which the end of the plunger (8) is withdrawn in the barrel (2).
Claims7
An apparatus for automatic insertion of a medicine peg into the skin, which apparatus has a barrel wherein a medicine peg is stored and in which a plunger behind said peg can be moved to press the peg out through an end of the barrel, which end is pressed against the skin on the location where it is intended to insert the peg, wherein the plunger is a part of a flexible rod construction which is so designed that it can be passed from a first non rectilinear constellation, by which the plunger is withdrawn in the barrel to a position leaving space for the medicine peg, to a rectilinear constellation by which the plunger projects from the end of the barrel.
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