Medicament delivery device and medicament delivery assembly

Abstract

A medicament delivery device according to the present text is equipped to accommodate a medicament container so as to form, together with the medicament container, a medicament delivery assembly. The medicament delivery device comprises a housing that has a proximal end and a distal end and defines an axis that extends proximodistally. It further comprises an expelling unit for expelling a medicament from a medicament container seated within the housing, the expelling unit comprising plunger element equipped to be driven in an axial direction while acting on the medicament container to expel the medicament. The medicament delivery device further comprises an activator The activator is equipped to prevent the expelling unit from expelling the medicament unless it is rotated about the axis by a certain angle. An activation sub-assembly, which may comprise a needle guard link connected to a needle guard, causes the rotation of the activator about the axis when subject to an axial application movement caused by the user.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.