Abstract: A piston for a medical hollow body such as a syringe or a carpule includes at least one sliding surface for contact with the hollow body. The piston has at least one receiving area in which a lubricant can be received, and at least one dispensing mechanism for dispensing the at least one lubricant from the at least one receiving area to the at least one sliding surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to an attachment or a cartridge comprising a sealing element having an opening for a medium located in the syringe or cartridge or to be introduced into the syringe or cartridge. The attachment is characterized by an actuating device which, in a first functional position, exerts a force on the wall of the opening in such a way that the opening is closed, and leaves the opening open in a second functional position.

Abstract: A syringe includes a syringe cylinder, a sealing plug movably disposed within the syringe cylinder, and with a plunger cooperating with the sealing plug. A safety device prevents a sliding back of the sealing plug within the syringe cylinder in any position the sealing plug assumes within the syringe cylinder. The safety device has a locking element which engages at the plunger in any position the plunger assumes within the syringe cylinder. The locking element is attached to a retaining fixture and protrudes from the retaining fixture same such that an attachment point of the locking element is closer to the sealing plug at the retaining fixture than the free end of the locking element opposite of the attachment point.

Abstract: A syringe cylinder comprising an interior space, having a stopper that can be displaced in the interior space and delimits an active ingredient space, is proposed. The syringe cylinder is characterized by an indicator device biuniquely indicating a longitudinal movement of the stopper occurring in one direction.

Abstract: A syringe includes a syringe cylinder and a distal end designed as a syringe cone. The distal end comprises a region set back in a radial direction such that an edge extending in the circumferential direction is formed. The edge has a first chamfer, and comprises an attachment piece having a clamping region. Holding forces are introduced from the attachment piece via the clamping region in the region of the syringe set back in a radial direction. The clamping region comprises a distal edge. The the distal edge of the clamping region has a second chamfer.

Abstract: A device for checking the seal-tightness of closure caps on medical hollow bodies has a drive, a retaining element for the hollow body, and a retaining device for the closure cap. The retaining device is pivotably supported relative to the retaining element. The device further includes a sensor for the relative rotation of the retaining device with respect to the retaining element. A torque may be applied to the closure cap by the drive, the retaining element, and the retaining device. A hollow body and a closure cap are gripped by the retaining device and the retaining element from the same side, as viewed along the longitudinal axis of a hollow body.

Abstract: A method for filling dual-chamber systems in pre-sterilizable carrier systems includes providing at least one washed, siliconized and sterilized dual-chamber system with respectively one separating element separating the two chambers from one another in a magazine, which accommodates the at least one dual-chamber system. The magazine is arranged in a container sealed with a closure element. The method additionally includes feeding the container into a clean room; opening the container and filling a first chamber of the at least one dual-chamber system; closing the first chamber with a gas-permeable closure element; and freeze drying the solution contained in the first chamber. The method further includes closing the first chamber with a closure element; filling a second chamber of the at least one dual-chamber system; closing the second chamber; and discharging the container from the clean room.

Abstract: A coating device for coating an inside of a hollow body with an atomized fluid has at least one atomizing tube enclosing an atomizing channel. A pressurized propellant gas for atomizing an unatomized fluid can be introduced into the atomizing tube. The atomizing tube has at least one outlet opening and further has at least one hollow needle having a discharge opening for the unatomized fluid. The at least one hollow needle interacts with the atomizing channel and is arranged essentially coaxially thereto. The atomizing tube and the hollow needle form a Venturi arrangement.

Abstract: A device places a plug and simultaneously checks a correct position alignment of the plug with a holding element for fixing a hollow body. The device has at least one first and one second opening and a plug placement mechanism with which the plug is be inserted into the second opening of the hollow body. The device has a measuring head that is traversed by at least one channel. The channel can be fluidically connected to the first opening of the hollow body. The device can further include a pressure sensor which can be fluidically connected to the channel of the measuring head.

Abstract: An X-ray device for examining syringe caps (3) with a cannula (27), comprising an x-ray source (5), an x-ray detector (9), and having a holder (39) holding the syringe cap (3) in the beam path (13) at an examination site (15), is proposed. The x-ray device is characterized in that the syringe cap (3) is arranged in the beam path (13) so that its longitudinal axis (17) coincides with the main axis (19) of the beam path (13).

Abstract: The invention relates to an attachment for a syringe or cartridge having a cannula, wherein the attachment comprises a sealing element, which is molded onto the cannula.

Abstract: A method and device for identifying, testing or clearing a prefilled medicinal syringe in which the syringe is inserted into the test device which reads coding on the syringe and has a display as to whether the syringe is appropriate or not.

Abstract: Prefilled syringes are made by displacing a succession of syringes along a conveyor path from a supply station successively through a marking station, a filling station, and to a downstream packing station. Each of the syringes is filled with a predetermined dose of a medicament in the filling station. The syringes are marked in the marking station with machine-readable data identifying the medicament to be put in the empty syringe at the filling station. The syringes are scanned downstream of the marking station and any syringe whose data is not readable is then removed from the conveyor path, as is any syringe whose data does not correspond to the medicament filled into the syringe at the filling station.

Abstract: A container which is to be autoclaved has a shiftable plunger that defines a compartment filled with a fluid. The container is confined in a pressurizable chamber and heated so as to change a pressure in the compartment of the container. The pressure in the compartment of the container is monitored and an output corresponding thereto is generated. Pressure in the chamber around the container is continuously varied so as to be generally equal to the instantaneous monitored pressure in the compartment of the container. In this manner the plunger is not moved by thermal expansion or contraction of the fluid.

Abstract: Apparatus for delivering sensitive liquid media, such as solutions, dispersions, suspensions, and the like, which comprises at least one flexible container having an outlet and enclosing a liquid medium. A pressure chamber which accommodates the container. The outlet of the container can be led through the chamber wall. A pressure source can be connected to the pressure chamber and the pressure chamber can be pressurized thereby.

Abstract: A syringe holding a solvent and a soluble component has a tubular body formed its front and rear ends with a bypass, a plunger axially slidable in the body, and a stem projecting axially rearward out of the body from the plunger. A cover fits over the front end of the body and is so tight that the front compartment can be pressurized to a superatmospheric pressure without leakage out the front end. A free piston slidable in the body forward of the plunger subdivides the body forward of the plunger into a front compartment at the front body end holding the soluble component and a rear compartment between the plunger and the piston and holding the solvent. Stops are provided for arresting the free piston when it is level with the bypass in a position permitting flow through the bypass between the compartments.

Abstract: Prefilled syringes are made by displacing a succession of syringes along a conveyor path from a supply station successively through a marking station, a filling station, and to a downstream packing station. Each of the syringes is filled with a predetermined dose of a medicament in the filling station. The syringes are marked in the marking station with machine-readable data identifying the medicament to be put in the empty syringe at the filling station. The syringes are scanned downstream of the marking station and any syringe whose data is not readable is then removed from the conveyor path, as is any syringe whose data does not correspond to the medicament filled into the syringe at the filling station.

Abstract: A container which is to be autoclaved has a shiftable plunger that defines a compartment filled with a fluid. The container is confined in a pressurizable chamber and heated so as to change a pressure in the compartment of the container. The pressure in the compartment of the container is monitored and an output corresponding thereto is generated. Pressure in the chamber around the container is continuously varied so as to be generally equal to the instantaneous monitored pressure in the compartment of the container. In this manner the plunger is not moved by thermal expansion or contraction of the fluid.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting a tip cap having a maximum diameter over a syringe subassembly having a syringe body with an end carrying a needle has a holder holding the subassembly with the needle substantially on an axis and a tubular guide having a feed passage generally centered on the axis adjacent the holder, of an inside diameter greater than the maximum tip-cap diameter, and open toward the holder. A stop can move between a blocking position between the guide and the holder and an unblocking position offset therefrom. The tip cap is fed through the passage to a position arrested on the stop in the blocking position thereof. A nozzle opening into the passage injects pressurized gas into the passage and thereby spins the tip cap in the passage about the axis. The stop can then be moved from the blocking into the unblocking position for displacing the spinning tip cap from the guide onto the syringe subassembly in the holder. The nozzle opens tangentially into the passage.

Abstract: A syringe assembly has a syringe body adapted to be filled with an injectable liquid and having an annular neck defining an axis and having an axially outwardly open outlet. The neck is adapted to carry a needle. An elastomeric plug engaged axially inward with the neck closes the outlet and a holding ring is fixed to the neck below the plug. A retaining sleeve around the neck is fixed to the holding ring and a cup-shaped safety cap is fixed to the plug and has an end edge confronting the retaining sleeve and spaced axially therefrom. Frangible formations extend from the cap edge to the sleeve.