# US 7,611,488 B2 · Safety hypodermic syringe

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- Number: US 7,611,488 B2
- Document ID: US7611488B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/641,806
- Filed: 2006-12-20
- Published: 2008-06-26
- Granted: 2009-11-03
- Earliest claimed: 2006-12-20
- Inventors: Komas Chang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7611488B2

## CPC

- A61M 5/322: {Retractable needles, i.e. disconnected from and withdrawn into the syringe barrel by the piston (devices for protecting guide needles in combination with catheters A61M25/0612)}
- A61M 2005/3224: {Means to disalign the needle tip and syringe nozzle}
- A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)}

## Abstract

A safety hypodermic syringe formed of a barrel, a plunger, a locating block, a rubber stopper, a needle holder and a needle is disclosed. The plunger has a barbed front tip, which is forced into engagement with a hooked portion of the locating block when the plunger is pushed to the front end of the barrel so that the needle holder with the needle can be carried by the locating block to the inside of the barrel upon a backward movement of the plunger after the service of the syringe and biased with the locating block inside the barrel by means of the effect of a front pin of the rubber stopper.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A safety hypodermic syringe comprising; a barrel, said barrel having a toothed portion extending around an inside wall near a front end thereof;
a locating block mounted with a gasket ring inside the front end of said barrel, said locating block having a forwardly extending outer tube, an inner thread extending around an inside wall of said outer tube, an inner tube coaxially suspending in said outer tube, a toothed portion disposed outside said outer tube and meshed with the toothed portion of said barrel to prohibit rotation of said locating block relative to said barrel, and a hooked portion in a rear end of said inner tube;
a needle holder inserted in between the outer tube and inner tube of said locating block to hold a needle, said needle holder having a rear flange meshed with said inner thread of said locating block;
a plunger axially movably inserted into said barrel, said plunger having a front extension rod, said front extension rod having a barbed front tip forced into engagement with the hooked portion of said locating block after said plunger has been pushed to the front end of said barrel for allowing said locating block and said needle holder with said needle to be pulled backwards to the inside of said barrel by said plunger; and
a rubber stopper fastened to the front extension rod of said plunger, said rubber stopper having a front pin forwardly extending in eccentric manner from a perimeter thereof which allows asymmetric tilting contact of the locking block within the barrel.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The safety hypodermic syringe as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a filling tube fitted into said inner tube of said locating block.