# US 2014/0155711 A1 · Medical Device Comprising Illumination Arrangement > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0155711 A1 - Document ID: US20140155711A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/130,457 - Filed: 2012-06-27 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2011-07-01 - Assignees: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH - Inventors: Andrew David Mitchell; Paul Richard Draper - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140155711A1 ## CPC - A61M 5/42: having means for desensitising skin, for protruding skin to facilitate piercing, or for locating point where body is to be pierced - A61B 5/145: Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration or pH-value {; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid or cerebral tissue} (non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06) - A61B 90/30: Devices for illuminating a surgical field, the devices having an interrelation with other surgical devices or with a surgical procedure - A61M 5/00: Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way; Accessories therefor, e.g. filling or cleaning devices, arm rests (tube connectors, tube couplings, valves or branch units, specially adapted for medical use A61M39/00; containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes A61J1/00) - A61M 5/427: {Locating point where body is to be pierced, e.g. vein location means using ultrasonic waves, injection site templates} - A61M 2205/583: by visual feedback - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) ## Abstract The present invention relates to a medical device for intradermal or subcutaneous treatment of a patient, comprising: a piercing element to penetrate a skin portion of the patient; an illumination arrangement to illuminate the piercing element and/or to illuminate the skin portion prior and/or during a treatment process, wherein the illumination arrangement is further adapted to visually indicate a predefined treatment sequence of the treatment process. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 1-15. (canceled) ### Claim 16 A medical device for intradermal or subcutaneous treatment of a patient, comprising: a piercing element to penetrate a skin portion of the patient; an illumination arrangement to illuminate the piercing element and/or to illuminate the skin portion at least during a treatment process, wherein the illumination arrangement is further adapted to visually indicate a predefined treatment sequence of the treatment process; wherein the illumination arrangement comprising a control element adapted to at least partially correlate activation of the illumination arrangement with the predefined sequence of the treatment process. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The medical device according to claim 16, wherein the illumination arrangement is adapted to generate at least one light cone around the piercing element to illuminate the skin portion ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The medical device according to claim 17, wherein the illumination arrangement is adapted to generate various light cones of different cone angle. ### Claim 19 (depends on 16) The medical device according to claim 16, wherein the illumination arrangement comprises at least one light source of incandescent, gas discharge, electro-luminescent or stimulated emission type. ### Claim 20 (depends on 16) The medical device according to claim 16, wherein the illumination arrangement is adapted to indicate the beginning, the end or various distinct intermediate steps of the treatment process. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) The medical device according to claim 20, wherein the control element is adapted to determine and/or to detect at least one distinct step of the treatment process. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The medical device according to claim 21, wherein the control element is adapted to modify and/or to deactivate the illumination of the illumination arrangement within a predefined delay after reaching of or determination of the distinct step of the treatment process. ### Claim 23 (depends on 16) The medical device according to claim 16, wherein the illumination arrangement is adapted to indicate the treatment sequence by at least two different illumination colours and/or by way of different illumination sequences. ### Claim 24 (depends on 16) The medical device according to claim 16, comprising a drug delivery device for injecting a liquid medicament. ### Claim 25 (depends on 24) The medical device according to claim 24, wherein the drug delivery device comprises: a housing to accommodate a cartridge at least partially filled with a medicament to be injected, a drive mechanism comprising a piston rod to become operably engaged with a piston of the cartridge. ### Claim 26 (depends on 24) The medical device according to claim 24, further comprising a cartridge disposed in the housing. ### Claim 27 (depends on 16) The medical device according to claim 16, comprising a lancing device to pierce and/or to analyze biological fluid and/or biological tissue. ### Claim 28 (depends on 16) The medical device according to claim 16, wherein the illumination arrangement is coupled with a control element adapted to control and/or to initiate the treatment process. ### Claim 29 (depends on 28) The medical device according to claim 28, wherein actuation of the control element turns on the illumination arrangement for a predefined time interval. ### Claim 30 (depends on 16) A method of controlling an illumination arrangement of a medical device according to claim 16, comprising the steps of: detecting at least one treatment sequence of a predefined treatment process to be executed by the medical device, modifying the operation mode of an illumination arrangement of the medical device in response to the detection of the treatment processes, and visually indicating at least one predefined treatment sequence of the treatment process by means of the illumination arrangement.