Device for winding and storing a used needle of an injector
AssigneeMedikit Co., Ltd.
InventorNoboru Nakajima
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Abstract
A device for winding and storing a used needle of an injector. The device includes a needle-hub assembly, a cylindrical container and a needle winding axle. A hub of the needle-hub assembly is arranged through a bottom wall of the cylindrical container at an eccentric position relative to a longitudinal axis thereto. After using the injector, the cylindrical container is rotated about the needle winding axle, whereby the used needle is wound and finally stored within the cylindrical container.
Claims6
A device for winding and storing a used needle of an injector, the device being mountable to a tip end of a syringe of the injector and comprising:
- a needle-hub assembly having a hub;
- a cylindrical container having a bottom wall;
- a needle winding axle rotatably fixed within said cylindrical container to permit said cylindrical container to turn about said needle winding axle;
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- detent means for preventing said cylindrical container from turning in an unwinding direction, wherein the hub of said needle-hub assembly is fixed to the bottom wall of said cylindrical container therethrough at an eccentric position relative to a longitudinal axis thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.