Insertion device for a medical conduit
AssigneeAnimas Corporation
InventorsWilliam G. SAULENAS, Marion Gertraud BUTZ, Mark DeSTEFANO, Matthew CLEMENTE
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Abstract
The invention provides an insertion device for insertion of conduits into a body that, before and following deployment of the conduit into the body, has no components that require insertion into or removal from the device. Additionally, the device includes a component that not only prevents re-use or reopening of the device once it is activated, but also provides feedback to the user in the form of a resistance force to activation that must be overcome by the user to deploy the conduit.
Claims10
An insertion device for inserting a conduit into a body, the device comprising:
- a base plate;
- a lower housing disposed on a first surface of the base plate, the lower housing comprising a latch, at least one guide support, and a first channel through the lower housing;
- a guide for supporting at least a portion of a conduit while the device is in an unactivated state, wherein the guide is movably engageable with the lower housing;
- a clamp movably attached to a first end of the lower housing, the clamp comprising at least one first component that releasably engages with the lower housing latch and a second component that non-releasably engages with the lower housing latch
- an upper housing seated on the clamp and movably engaged with the guide;
- a second channel in communication with the first channel;
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- a conduit within the first and second channels.
The insertion 7, wherein the lower housing inner surface further comprises slotted reliefs on either side of the at least one flexible tab member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.