Syringe identification
AssigneeOwen Mumford Limited
InventorTimothy Simon EVANS
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Abstract
A syringe comprising a barrel and a needle at an end thereof, a syringe plunger configured to move within the barrel to cause a medicament within the barrel to be expelled from the needle; and an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) configured to store information related to the syringe.
Claims9
A syringe comprising a barrel and a needle at an end thereof, a syringe plunger configured to move to cause a medicament within the barrel to be expelled from the needle;
- and an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) configured to store information related to the syringe;
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- a printed circuit board comprising one or more electrically conductive contact pads electrically connected to one or more input or output pins of the EEPROM wherein the printed circuit board is arranged on a rearward facing surface of the safety plunger.
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An auto-injector for receiving and operating a syringe to facilitate the injection of a medicament into a subject, the autoinjector comprising:
- a plunger driver configured on activation of the auto-injector to drive a plunger of the syringe received in the auto-injector forward within the auto-injector to operate the syringe;
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- one or more electrically conductive contact pads configured to contact one or more electrically conductive contact pads on the syringe to establish an electrical connection between an integrated circuit of the auto-injector and an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) of the syringe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.