Abstract: An injection device including a capacitor as an energy accumulator for providing energy for performing an injection.

Abstract: A device for the controlled delivery of an injectable liquid from a liquid container, wherein a flexible force transferring means transfers the drive force of a drive wheel onto a piston which can be slid axially in the device, a preferably permanently acting restoring force of a spiral spring is applied to the drive wheel in order to advance the piston and expel the liquid, and a locking means locks the drive wheel against rotation and releases the drive wheel to expel the liquid. In one embodiment, the amount of liquid expelled can be indicated by audible clicks and, in one embodiment, the drive wheel moves only incrementally when the locking mechanism releases the drive wheel.

Abstract: The present invention provides an injection device and an actuator for an injection device, wherein the actuator comprises a generally rod-shaped driven member having a structured surface portion, a counter component having a structured surface portion engaging the structured surface portion of the driven member, whereby the driven member is movable by the counter component, and a spreader bushing for spreading open the counter component by a movement relative to the counter component, thereby allowing the driven member to shift freely, wherein the spreader bushing is selectively movable with and relative to the counter component.

Abstract: A device for transferring a fluid product from one container to another including a hollow needle suitable for piercing a membrane and having a first, front opening, the needle being connectable to one of the containers via a first, rear hollow needle opening so that the fluid product can be conveyed into or out of the container through the hollow needle and hollow needle openings, the needle having a second, rear opening which forms a fluid connection between the another container and a pressure compensation device or the environment while the fluid is being transferred.

Abstract: An injection apparatus including a distally arranged cooling element, wherein the cooling element is detachably coupled to the injection apparatus or to a needle protecting device coupled to the injection apparatus, and a corresponding or complementary cooling container.

Abstract: The invention relates to an injection device including a tubular casing for a reservoir (ampoule) for a medicinal fluid, an injection needle, and a needle protecting sleeve which may be axially shifted on the casing between a protective position in which it surrounds the injection needle and a functional position in which it exposes the injection needle, wherein, in the protective position, the distal end of the needle protecting sleeve axially abuts at least one stopper and, in order to release the sleeve, the at least one stopper is radially shifted by applying a force to the casing.

Abstract: A combination of a storage container for an injectable product and a needleless injection device for injecting the product, wherein an adapter is used to establish a fluid connection between the storage container and the injection device, wherein the storage container is connected to a dosing means for dispensing the injectable product to the injection device in doses, and the dosing means includes an actuator arranged in the storage container or reaching into the storage container.

Abstract: A needle protecting device including: a sleeve-shaped base body which may be connected to a casing of the injection device or is formed by a casing of the injection device, a needle protecting sleeve which is mounted on the base body, wherein, in a proximal protective position, the needle protecting sleeve surrounds an injection needle of the injection device and, in a distal position, exposes the injection needle, a first block and a second block, one of which is connected non-sliding to the needle protecting sleeve and the other of which is connected non-sliding to the base body, wherein, in the protective position of the needle protecting sleeve, a blocking mesh is formed by the blocks pushing axially against each other and so preventing the needle protecting sleeve from sliding into the distal position, and a safety-release for releasing the blocking mesh, wherein the first block is formed by an elastically bendable latch which is connected rigidly to one of the needle protecting sleeve and the base body;

Abstract: A container for a substance including a coupling element for coupling the container to an administering device for administering the substance, wherein the container has an associated identifying element, and wherein the administering device includes a coupling device for accommodating the coupling element of the container and a sensor element for at least one of reading and writing the identifying element and the state of the container. The invention is intended to encompass methods for providing and using the identifying element.

Abstract: A device for transferring a fluid product from one container to another including a hollow needle suitable for piercing a membrane and having a first, front opening, the needle being connectable to one of the containers via a first, rear hollow needle opening so that the fluid product can be conveyed into or out of the container through the hollow needle and hollow needle openings, the needle having a second, rear opening which forms a fluid connection between the another container and a pressure compensation device or the environment while the fluid is being transferred.

Abstract: The present invention provides an injection device and an actuator for an injection device, wherein the actuator comprises a generally rod-shaped driven member having a structured surface portion, a counter component having a structured surface portion engaging the structured surface portion of the driven member, whereby the driven member is movable by the counter component, and a spreader bushing for spreading open the counter component by a movement relative to the counter component, thereby allowing the driven member to shift freely, wherein the spreader bushing is selectively movable with and relative to the counter component.

Abstract: A manual switch (2) has a switching plate (9), which can be tilted to several sides and is mounted on a mounting (10). This switching plate (9) can move with star-shaped actuating arms that correspond to the contact arms of a contact spring (7) in the direction of a printed circuit board (6), so that it can close a circuit by means releasably, lockingly engaging the selected actuating arm against a respective contact arm and an electric contact on the printed circuit board. At any switch position one can switch back directly into the zero position by pressing an adjusting arm (13) which moves the switching plate (9) back into its non-tilted position.

Abstract: A handle component (1) of an electric toothbrush protrudes from the end of a hollow shaft (3), which holds a drive shaft (9) coaxially therein. A brush attachment (4) with rotatable bristle tufts (6) is disposed on the hollow shaft (3) in such a way that the drive shaft (9) is coupled with a shaft (7) in the brush attachment (4), wherein said shaft (7) drives the bristle tufts (6). The hollow shaft (3) is driven by a motor to oscillate around its longitudinal axis and to slide back and forth in the direction of its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush having in its slip-on brush a piston is disclosed, which is set rotating by a motor shaft projecting out of the handle segment. This piston exhibits a lifting cam, by means of which it effects an axial motion relative to the motor shaft in the slip-on brush. This axial motion causes a reciprocating motion of a toothed rack, which sets the bristle tufts of the toothbrush rotating.

Abstract: A handle component (1) of an electric toothbrush protrudes from the end of a hollow shaft (3), which holds a drive shaft (9) coaxially therein. A brush attachment (4) with rotatable bristle tufts (6) is disposed in the hollow shaft (3) in such a way that the drive shaft (9) is coupled with a shaft (7) in the brush attachment (4), wherein said shaft (7) drives the bristle tufts (6). The hollow shaft (3) is driven by a motor to oscillate around its longitudinal axis and/or to slide back and forth in the direction of its longitudinal axis. (FIG.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush having separable handle and brush segments, a rotating motor shaft extending exteriorly of the handle segment, and a reciprocating toothed rack in the brush segment which engages and imparts a counter-rotating movement to a plurality of tufts on the brush head. A cylindrically shaped gear mounts to and is axially movable on the motor shaft when the brush and handle segments are attached together. First and second lifting cams configured as elliptical flanges lying in oblique planes are provided in radially spaced relationship on the exterior surface and interior bore hole of the gear, respectively. Respective first and second guide grooves are associated with the lifting cams and the reciprocal toothed rack whereby rotation of the gear generates a long stroke of the rack through the interaction of the first and second lifting cams and guide grooves.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush comprises a handle part (1) and a push-on brush (4). From one end of the handle part (1) there projects the end of a hollow shaft (3) in which a toothbrush arbor (9) is coaxially arranged, the push-on brush (4) being adapted to be pushed on to the hollow shaft (3). The push-on brush (4) has a rotatable tuft of bristles which may be driven by a longitudinally reciprocating connecting rod which attaches to the arbor (9) when the brush (4) and handle (1) are attached together. A gear (18) in the handle part (1) has two cams (23, 27) which are mutually phase shifted by 180.degree. . The first cam (23) displaces the hollow shaft (3) and the second cam displaces the toothbrush arbor (9) in the opposite direction.

Abstract: An electric toothbrush having in its slip-on brush a piston is disclosed, which is set rotating by a motor shaft projecting out of the handle segment. This piston exhibits a lifting cam, by means of which it effects an axial motion relative to the motor shaft in the slip-on brush. This axial motion causes a reciprocating motion of a toothed rack, which sets the bristle tufts of the toothbrush rotating.