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US 2008/0177238 A1Published application
Safety shield system for an injection pen needle
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsMark A. Follman, David R. Stonehouse, Michael J. Newman
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Abstract
A safety shield system for a pen needle according to the invention has a first passive safety shield for the injection end of a needle, covering the needle before and after use, and a second passive safety shield for the non-injection end of the needle, covering the non-injection end of the needle before and after use, and locking in the covering position when the pen injector is removed.
Claims9
A safety shield system for an injection pen needle comprising:
- a needle hub;
- a needle mounted in the hub and having an injection end and a non-injection end, wherein the hub has a first recess surrounding the injection end of the needle and a second recess surrounding the non-injection end of the needle to receive a pen-injector;
- a first shield moving coaxially over the first recess of the hub and having an aperture in an end wall thereof for passage of the needle, and traveling from a retracted position in which the needle is exposed to a full travel position in which the shield covers the injection end of the needle;
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- a second shield moving within the second recess of the hub and having an aperture to permit passage of the non-injection end of the needle into the pen-injector, and traveling inside the second recess from a position in which the pen injector is installed in the hub to a full travel position in which the pen injector is removed from the hub and the second shield covers the non-injection end of the needle;
- a first elastic member housed between the first shield and the hub, engaging the first shield to hold the first shield in the full travel position;
- a second elastic member housed between the second shield and the hub, engaging the second shield to hold the second shield in its full travel position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.