Solvent container with a connecter for communicating with a drug vial
AssigneeNissho Corporation
InventorsKoji Ikeda, Hitoshi Futagawa, Toshihiro Kikuchi, Minoru Honda, Masanobu Iwasa
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Abstract
A solvent container to be used in combination with a drug container or vial, which comprises a flexible container body containing a solvent therein and having a mouth covered with a self-sealing member, a guide capsule having an open end sealed by a sealing member and being removably mounted on the mouth of the container body; and a double-pointed hollow needle having a sharp piercing edge at each end and being slidably arranged in the guide capsule to constitute a means for communicating the container body with the drug vial in cooperation with the guide capsule.
Claims6
A solvent container with a means for communicating with a drug vial, comprising:
- a flexible container body containing a solvent and having a mouth covered with a self-sealing means;
- a guide capsule having an open end at one end and being removably mounted on the mouth of said flexible container body at the other end, said open end being sealed by a sealing member prior to insertion of a drug vial;
- a double-pointed needle having a sharp piercing edge at each end and a hub at its central part, said needle being slidably arranged in said guide capsule to constitute a means for communicating with a drug vial in cooperation with said guide capsule;
- an inner wall of said guide capsule having one or more vertical guide grooves for holding said double-pointed needle and for guiding said double-pointed needle towards the mouth of said flexible container, said guide capsule having a partition wall with a hole for insertion of the piercing edge of said double-pointed needle into said mouth of said container body through said self-sealing means;
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- wherein said guide grooves extend above and below said hub and extend to said partition wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.