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US 5,662,612 AGranted
Controlling plunger drives for fluid injections in animals
AssigneeLiebel-Flarsheim Company
InventorKenneth J. Niehoff
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AssigneeLiebel-Flarsheim Company
InventorKenneth J. Niehoff
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A computer-controlled injector of the type as a motor which advances and retracts a plunger located within a syringe housing toward and away from a nozzle located in the front of the syringe to inject fluid into or out of an animal subject. The injector tracks the plunger position during an injection, and compensates for plunger extenders found in partially pre-filled syringes by applying a stored offset value to the computed plunger position, to produce a corrected plunger position reflecting the actual position of the plunger and compensating for the presence of the extender. The offset value can be determined by querying the operator as to the capacity of the syringe and determining therefrom the appropriate offset value, or may be automatically computed by detecting physical indicia on the syringe or extender which indicate the length of the extender.
An injector of the type having a motor which advances and retracts a plunger located within a syringe toward and away from a nozzle located in the front of the syringe to inject fluid into or out of an animal subject, adapted for use with a syringe including an extender attached to said plunger, comprising:
A method of controlling an injector of the type having a motor which advances and retracts a plunger located within a syringe toward and away from a nozzle located in the front of the syringe to inject fluid into or out of an animal subject, adapted for use with a syringe including an extender attached to said plunger, comprising:
An injector of the type having a motor which advances and retracts a plunger located within a syringe toward and away from a nozzle located at a distal end of the syringe to inject fluid into or out of an animal subject, adapted for use with syringe assemblies which have differing capacities, comprising:
A method of controlling an injector of the type having a motor which advances and retracts a plunger located within a syringe toward and away from a nozzle located at an end of the syringe to inject fluid into or out of an animal subject, adapted for use with syringe assemblies which have differing capacities, comprising:
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