Medical safety needle preventive of needlepoint re-exposure
AssigneeMedikit Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroaki Nakajima, Hirokazu Ando
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Abstract
A medical safety needle includes a needle body having a needlepoint, a covering body having a detent portion slidable on the needle body to catch the needlepoint so as to cover the needlepoint, and a resilient cantilever supporting the detent portion, a collar portion slidably fitting on the covering body, which is configured to get in contact with the cantilever to press the cantilever radially inwardly, and a housing being formed in a unitary body with the collar portion or having an end face on which the collar portion is capable of being seated, the housing being configured to carry the covering body from a first position to have the needlepoint exposed to a second position to have the needlepoint covered by the covering body.
Claims8
A medical safety needle, comprising:
- a needle body having a needlepoint;
- a covering body having a detent portion slidable on the needle body to catch the needlepoint so as to cover the needlepoint, and a resilient cantilever supporting the detent portion;
- a collar portion slidably fitting on the covering body, the covering body being configured to slide in the collar portion while the needlepoint is covered by the covering body, the collar portion being configured to get in contact with the cantilever to press the cantilever radially inwardly;
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- a housing having an end face on which the collar portion is capable of being seated, the housing being configured to carry the covering body from a first position to have the needlepoint exposed to a second position to have the needlepoint covered by the covering body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.