Abstract: The present invention provides an auto-injection device including a housing, a container from which a product is dispensed by advancing a piston, the container shiftably accommodated by the housing and carrying a needle, and a drive unit including a driven member, wherein the driven member is shiftably accommodated by the housing and, during an auto-injection, is adapted for inserting the needle and advancing the container to a predetermined frontal position in relation to the housing and advancing the piston within the container for dispensing of the product, wherein the driven member remains uncoupled with the piston until the container reaches its frontal position, and upon the container reaching its frontal position, the driven member detaches from the container and couples with the piston for advancing the piston within the container.

Abstract: An injection device for injecting a preselectable dose of a liquid substance from an ampoule (2) with a stopper (12) located in an ampoule-holder (1) has a sleeve-shaped mechanism holder (3) mechanically linked to the stopper (12) and containing a sliding rod (4) which acts on the ampoule (2). The sliding rod (4) is surrounded by a sliding sleeve (5) mechanically coupled to the ampoule (2) and closed at its upper end by a lid (7). A dosing sleeve (13) is provided with a stepped member (13) arranged at the upper end of the mechanism holder (3) to preselect the dose of liquid substance to be injected. The dose to be administered can be adjusted by turning the dosing sleeve (6) provided with the stepped member (13).

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for affinity viscosimetry and a viscosimetric affinity sensor on the basis of sensitive liquids with analyte-dependent viscosity which are localized within a perfusable dialysis chamber and contain colloidal constituents which are cross-linked by affinity bonds. The viscosimetric affinity sensor according to this invention is characterized by the spatial or temporal separation of analyte diffusion from the measurement of the flow resistance for such sensitive liquid flowing through a capillary, needle-like body or other liquid conductor, which integrated combination of a dialysis chamber with viscosimeter enables a researcher to make measurements under lab conditions that provide spatial separation of the dialysis process from the rheological analysis, as done under test conditions where the maximum shear rate of sensitive liquid in the viscosity sensor is at least twice that shear rate of sensitive liquid experienced in the dialysis chamber.

Abstract: The invention provides a injection device for administering an injectable product, including a base section adapted to receive a container from which a product dose is dispensed through a needle by displacement of a piston in the container, and a drive unit including a driven member, a drive element and a damping arrangement, the drive unit for applying a force to advance the piston in the container to dispense a dose, wherein the damping arrangement generally counteracts the drive force and counter forces. The invention also encompasses a needle safety sleeve and a blocking structure for use with injection devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing device for simultaneously dispensing fluid from at least two fluid containers fitted with plungers, wherein the device includes an actuating device having at least two output elements, a push element able to displace the output elements, a force element that acts on the push element in the direction of the fluid containers, and a brake element which acts on the push element and can be manually modified to cancel the effect of the force element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for locking a dosing button in a device for the administration of a product to be injected in predetermined doses. This device comprises a body (1) with a housing (2) for the product, wherein a selected dose for injection is transported from said body out of a container (3) through a transport member (4). This device also comprises a drive member (5,7) for the transport member (4) as well as a dosing button (9) coupled to the drive member (5, 7) which is mounted so as to be capable of sliding within the body (1). The button ensures the transport of the selected dose when it is displaced from a first position into a second by actuating the drive member (5, 7). The dose is selected in the first position by rotating the dosing button (9) so that is can be moved from a first rotation position indicating that no transport is possible into a second rotation position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a needle protector for use with an injection device, wherein the needle protector includes a first sleeve, a second sleeve that can at least partially be slid into or over the first sleeve and a force element functioning between the two sleeves, wherein a pressure or trigger point has to be overcome to displace the second sleeve.

Abstract: An injection device is described which is lockable in its end position in such a manner that the reliability of storing or transporting it with a carpule attached is improved in comparison with devices according to the prior art. It is comprised of fewer components than comparable devices, with these components being easier to manufacture so that production costs are low. The injection device is used for medical purposes.

Abstract: The disposable cassette for use with a liquid drug infusion pump comprises a cassette body (1) with a flexible pump tube (2) between an inlet (3) for connection to a drug reservoir on the upstream side and an outlet (4) for delivery of the drug to a medical patient on the downstream side; a pressure detector membrane (18) operatively connectable to said infusion pump having means to measure the pressure in the fluid circuit of the cassette; a passive valve (7) having a pre-stress producing a forward opening pressure of at least 0.15 bar, and an optical code (6) located on the cassette body (1) for recognition of the cassette by said infusion pump.

Abstract: Injection device for injecting fluid from a fluid container equipped with a piston, comprising an actuating device having a rod-shaped driven member having a structured surface, a control button being movable in axial direction, and a hollow cylindrical counter component having a structured internal sleeve, said counter component matching the rod-shaped driven member and being coaxially arranged in relation to said driven member.

Abstract: The invention relates to an injection device for injecting a selectable dose of a liquid substance from an ampoule, located in an ampoule holder, comprising a piston and a sleeve-shaped mechanism holder, in the interior of which a longitudinally shiftable shaft is provided, the shaft being surrounded by an also longitudinally shiftable advancing sleeve coupled thereto. For selecting a dose of the liquid substance to be injected, a dosing sleeve with a stepped member is provided, the dose to be respectively administered being adjustable by a rotation of the dosing sleeve with the stepped member. The adjusted dose is readable via a dose imprint on the dosing sleeve.

Abstract: Catheter system consisting of a sleeve, a catheter and a membrane partially arranged in the sleeve, which can be fixed in a skin passage unit in such a way that the catheter protrudes from the skin passage unit towards the interior of the body, wherein the individual components of the catheter system are inseparably connected to one another.

Abstract: The present invention provides an injection system including a disposable lower part and a reusable upper part wherein the lower part includes an ampoule holder for accommodating a container containing a liquid medicament and having an axially movable plug having a cross-section F for ejecting the liquid medicament from the container and a kinematic device for axially driving the plug forward by a number N of individual steps x, N being a natural number, and the reusable upper part includes a casing detachably connectable to the ampoule holder, and a dosing button for selecting the number N of individual steps x and for actuating the kinematic device of the lower part which thereby effects selectable ejection of a Volume V=NxF of the liquid medicament from the container.

Abstract: Device for the dosed release of an injectable product, comprising a housing, a retainer for a container, containing the product, in which a piston is displaceably accommodated, whose displacement in a feed direction causes the release of a product dose, a driven member including a driven rod which protruding into the container when the container is accommodated in the housing pushes the piston in the feed direction to release the product, at least one drive member engaging with the driven member, the driven member being displaced in the feed direction by the activation of the drive member, wherein the driven member contains a driven bush surrounding the driven rod, which driven bush engages into the drive member and is displaced together with the driven rod, and a rear wall--in relation to the feed direction--of the container protrudes at least during a release into an annulus formed between the driven rod and the driven bush.

Abstract: A tubular catheter for implantation in a tubular structure of a human or animal body, comprising a lumen, characterized in that the catheter comprises a minimum of one radial groove.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connection system for connecting a cannula to a device, the system involving a chamber operably coupled to the device, wherein the chamber has two apertures and contains a flexible substance, one of the apertures operably coupled to the device and both apertures operably linked by a channel defined in the flexible substance, the cannula having a cannula diameter and an end with a larger diameter than said cannula diameter.

Abstract: Injection device for injecting fluid from a fluid container equipped with a piston, comprising an actuating device having a rod-shaped driven member having a structured surface, a control button being movable in axial direction, and a hollow cylindrical counter component having a structured internal sleeve, said counter component matching the rod-shaped driven member and being coaxially arranged in relation to said driven member.

Abstract: The cuff for a sphygmomanometer comprises a flexible cover having an approximately rectangular area when unrolled and comprising a first short side and a second short side. The cover contains an air chamber in its interior which is connectable to a monitoring device. It has fixing means on its surface for fixing the cuff around a body limb. A flap, both sides of which are coated with attaching means for temporary attachment to the holding means, is attached to the second short side of the cover which flap folds both to the one surface and the other surface of the cuff and is attachable thereto by its attaching means.

Abstract: The device for measuring and displaying the concentration of glucose in the blood comprises a display device (2) into which disposable sensors (1) comprising a biomembrane (9) can be inserted. The display device (2) comprises a built-in computer (3) in whose memory (7) a glucose concentration diagram (5) is stored and which can evaluate the measurement results of the sensors (1). The computer (3) comprises a time measuring device (4) whose zero setting can be correlated in an irreversible manner with the date of manufacture of the disposable sensors (1). Before the device is supplied to the patient, the glucose concentration diagram, which corresponds to the characteristics of the biomembrane (9) of the disposable sensors (1) at the time of manufacture, is irreversibly calibrated. The glucose concentration diagram is automatically and irreversibly corrected, taking into account the time-dependent characteristics of the biomembrane (9) of the disposable sensors (1), by means of the time measuring device (4).

Abstract: A sensor is used to detect a substance component in an aqueous solution. This sensor has electrically conducting and mutually insulated electrodes (7) which can be connected to a data-recording device. A sensor membrane array responsive to substance components to be detected includes several individual membranes (2) in rows or row-column arrays mounted on a flat support (1).