Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Richard W. Bosk, Esq.
  • Patent number: 6755810
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transfer device for transferring medicament from a medicament container to a syringe with a needle. The transfer device is arranged for transferring accurate dosages of insulin, growth hormone or other medicaments. The accuracy is ensured by the device comprising means for mounting a syringe to the device, the needle piercing a sealing of the device. Opposite the sealing a piston is arranged, said piston being non-releasable engaged with the piston driver during transfer of the medicament. Thereby the piston is not erroneously drawn from the piston driver, which would otherwise lead to incorrect dosing. Furthermore, the device comprises dosing means including the piston driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Buch-Rasmussen, Jens-Ulrik Poulsen, Henrik Ljunggreen
  • Patent number: 6663602
    Abstract: An injection device for injection of set does of medicine from a cartridge has a nut that is screwed up along a threaded piston rod during a dose setting operation. The nut is screwed along the piston rod by rotating a dose setting drum. An injection button is coupled to the piston rod with a gear wheel transmission. Axial movement of the injection button causes a corresponding axial movement of the piston rod until the nut engages an abutment in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventor: Claus Schmidt Møller
  • Patent number: 6656114
    Abstract: A method of self treating a disease, such as diabetes, includes collecting in one or more databases data representing values of parameters that related to the self treatment. The data is processed to provide a plurality of alternate choices between two or more actions that may be taken and a corresponding value for each action is calculated. A computerized system may be employed to perform the above method and the system may include a computer readable medium for executing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Novo Noadisk A/S
    Inventors: Jens Ulrik Poulsen, Lars Hofmann Christensen, Søren Aasmul
  • Patent number: 6613019
    Abstract: A liquid medication delivery device for, and a method of, delivering medication from a cartridge having a moveable piston at one end is disclosed. The piston has a first wall face that contacts the liquid in the cartridge and a second wall for engaging a piston rod that drives the piston. The first and second walls are moveable but the second wall tends to move more quickly then the first during administration of a dose of medication from the cartridge. To compensate for this difference in movement between the first and second wall faces, the rod first moves a distance corresponding to the amount that the first wall face must move to deliver the desired dose and then it continues to move past this position by an amount known as an overshoot distance. It is then retracted by a distance equal to the overshoot distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventor: Jens Aage Munk
  • Patent number: 6547764
    Abstract: A disposable double pointed injection needle has a needle hub to which a thin needle cannula is permanently fasten and which needle hub can be mounted on to a syringe comprising a dose setting and injection mechanism and a cartridge containing a liquid medicine to be injected subcutaneously into a human body. The needle hub is provided with a safety shield guided on the outside surface of the needle hub. The safety shield is urged in a direction away from the needle hub by a spring located between the needle hub and the safety shield. The safety shield has a number of protrusions guided in guiding tracks on the outside surface of the needle hub. The guiding tracks are designed such that the safety shield during injection is moved towards the needle hub, and after injection is moved away from the needle hub by the spring and locked in an irreversible position where the safety shield covers the needle cannula and prevents accidental needle stick injuries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Gerner Larsen, Lars Stenholt, Anders Molin, Jørn Rex, Bjørn Gullak Larsen
  • Patent number: 6540672
    Abstract: This invention relates to an system for self treatment. The system consists of several portable modules where one of the modules is designated as a master module. The master module controls, supervises and monitors all the mutual information and data exchange between itself and the rest of the modules. The modules can e.g. consist of a BGM, a doser, an inhaler, a tablet dispenser and a storage container. The modules may be able to generate and store data which is transmitted to the master module if it is within range and active. If the master module is not within range, the data is kept locally in the module until the master module is available or a new master module is designated. The master module or another specific module can send the data to an external unit like a computer or database for further processing. A physician or an expert care-team can access the data in the database and give guidance to the patient on the basis of these processed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/s
    Inventors: Jan Henning Simonsen, Jens Ulrik Poulsen, Kent Halfdan Rokkjaer, Lars Hofmann Christensen, Søren Aasmul, Steffen Iav