Abstract: According to one embodiment, a cannula assembly may include a cannula module and an inserter module. In the pre-operational state the cannula is retracted with respect to the skin-contacting surface. In operational state the cannula projects beyond the skin-contacting surface. The inserter module may include an energy store and an activation mechanism. When the energy store is at least partially discharged, the stored potential energy is transformed to kinetic energy that moves the cannula from the pre-operational state to the operational state. The activation mechanism is triggerable from outside the cannula assembly with a trigger device. The activation mechanism prevents the energy store from being discharged before it is triggered by the trigger device, and enables the energy store to be discharge after it is triggered by the trigger device to force the cannula from the pre-operational state into the operational state.

Abstract: An insertion device for infusion sets, including a housing for generally enclosing an infusion set placed in the insertion device and a drive device for displacing the infusion set, wherein the displacing is as friction-free as possible with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A compact and one time use, self-administration device (10) for administering medication is disclosed. The device includes a housing (12) having a start button (26), a status indicator (28), a window (30), and a surface removably attachable to a user. The device (10) has a cartridge holder (34) providing in an aseptic environment a cartridge (32) containing the medication. The cartridge (32) is viewable through the cartridge holder (34) and the window (30). An included drive unit (42) provides a movable plunger (126) that breaks through a sterile barrier (130) of the cartridge holder (34) to dispense the medication from the cartridge (32) to an hollow needle (38) for administering the medication into the user.

Abstract: An insertion head for medical or pharmaceutical applications includes a base having a lower side which can be positioned on organic tissue; an insertion means movably mounted by the base and insertable into the tissue; where the insertion means is movable relative to the base from a protective position in which a free end of the insertion means is short of the lower side of the base, into an insertion position in which the free end protrudes beyond the lower side; a handle which projects from the base and includes a first handle component and a second handle component movable relative to the base and the first handle component; and a coupling that transmits a movement of the second handle component into a movement of the insertion means.

Abstract: An infusion set with a guiding needle, more particularly a laterally displaceable guiding needle.

Abstract: A device for inserting a cannula into tissue, including a cannula, a protective element which can accommodate said cannula, an operating element for moving the cannula out of the protective element, and a holder fixedly connected to the cannula. The invention encompasses a system for connecting a liquid supply to the cannula.

Abstract: An insertion device for infusion sets, including a housing for generally enclosing an infusion set placed in the insertion device and a drive device for displacing the infusion set, wherein the displacing is as friction-free as possible with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A connection system for connecting a fluid line to a fluid reservoir located within a device by way of a cannula and a method thereof are disclosed. The connecting system may include a cannula holder, a movable cannula cover, and lock for the cover. The system may further include a receiving element for receiving the cannula holder; the receiving element may have a release adapted for interaction with the lock. The release and the lock can be arranged to release the cannula cover by the release interacting with the lock, so that the cannula cover is movable by the inserting force to expose the cannula when the cannula holder is inserted into the receiving element. Thus, a connection system is provided for easy and secure connection without danger of injury by the cannula or staining of the cannula.

Abstract: An insertion head for medical or pharmaceutical applications includes a base having a lower side which can be positioned on organic tissue; an insertion means movably mounted by the base and insertable into the tissue; where the insertion means is movable relative to the base from a protective position in which a free end of the insertion means is short of the lower side of the base, into an insertion position in which the free end protrudes beyond the lower side; a handle which projects from the base and includes a first handle component and a second handle component movable relative to the base and the first handle component; and a coupling that transmits a movement of the second handle component into a movement of the insertion means.

Abstract: A device for inserting a cannula into tissue, including a cannula, a protective element which can accommodate said cannula, an operating element for moving the cannula out of the protective element, and a holder fixedly connected to the cannula. The invention encompasses a system for connecting a liquid supply to the cannula.

Abstract: Infusion systems for pumping fluid into a body of a user, and methods for providing infusion systems, are disclosed. The infusion systems include an infusion pump, wherein the infusion pump comprises an infusion pump housing including a cavity. A fluid storage is removably inserted into the cavity of the infusion pump housing wherein, the fluid storage comprises a cartridge and an adapter connected to the cartridge such that the adapter encases the cartridge, and an infusion set is removably connected to the fluid storage.

Abstract: An insertion device for applying an infusion set to the body of a patient, wherein the device has two actuation members which have to be actuated simultaneously to trigger an insertion movement by which a cannula of the infusion set is introduced into the body and wherein, in some embodiments, one of the actuation members is a securing slide including a contact face to be placed on the body of the patient, the securing slide being actuated by the insertion device being pressed, via the contact face, against the body of the patient.

Abstract: An infusion set with a guiding needle, more particularly a laterally displaceable guiding needle.

Abstract: A container for containing a medical device, the container including a shell with a flange area, a packaging chamber formed by the shell, a cover removably connected to the shell in the flange area, a disposal chamber formed by shell, and a latch for securing the medical device in the container. The invention encompasses a method of using the container for containing the medical device before and after use of the device. In one embodiment, the disposal chamber is adjacent to the shell and includes a latch for connecting to the medical device and, in another embodiment, the packaging chamber and disposal chamber are the same and the container further includes a cover foldably connected to the shell and a latch for locking the cover to the shell.

Abstract: An arrangement for introducing a liquid into the body of a patient or for withdrawing a liquid from the body of a patient, including a first structural part carrying a cannula for positioning in the body of the patient, and a second structural part with a connection port for detachably coupling a conduit for supplying or withdrawing a liquid, wherein the first and second structural parts are connected, can be rotated relative to each another and in relative rotational positions form a channel for introducing a liquid from the conduit to the cannula or for withdrawing a liquid from the cannula to the conduit, and whereby movement of the conduit for coupling and uncoupling is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the cannula.

Abstract: A system for positioning and inserting insertion means into tissue includes an insertion head and an inserter. The insertion head includes a base with a lower side positionable on tissue; and an insertion means movably mounted by the base, which is movable from a protective position where a free end of the insertion means is short of the lower side, into an insertion position where the free end protrudes beyond the lower side of the base. The inserter includes an inserter casing having a lower side with an opening for the insertion head; a holding means, coupled to the inserter casing for holding the insertion head in an initial position; a drive configured to move the insertion head out of the initial position in an advancing direction; and an activating member movable relative to the holding means and operable such that the insertion means is moved into the insertion position.

Abstract: An insertion head for medical or pharmaceutical applications includes a base having a lower side positionable on organic tissue; an insertion means movably mounted by the base and insertable into the tissue; where the insertion means is movable relative to the base from a protective position in which a free end of the insertion means is short of the lower side of the base, into an insertion position in which the free end protrudes beyond the lower side; and a receptacle that is open towards the lower side of the base and that can be detached from the base, and which accommodates at least the free end of the insertion means in its protective position.

Abstract: An insertion head for medical or pharmaceutical applications includes a base having a lower side which can be positioned on organic tissue; an insertion means movably mounted by the base and insertable into the tissue; where the insertion means is movable relative to the base from a protective position in which a free end of the insertion means is short of the lower side of the base, into an insertion position in which the free end protrudes beyond the lower side; a handle which projects from the base and includes a first handle component and a second handle component movable relative to the base and the first handle component; and a coupling that transmits a movement of the second handle component into a movement of the insertion means.

Abstract: An insertion device for inserting an injection needle into a tissue including a needle holder carrying the injection needle and a protection device for covering the injection needle after the removal thereof from the tissue wherein the needle holder is mounted to move along the needle axis in relation to the protection device and for insertion of the injection needle the needle holder and protection device are moved more closely together and wherein at least one catch is provided on at least one of the needle holder and protection device, which firmly engages the needle holder with the protection device in an extended relative position. The invention encompasses a catheter head having a base body, a flexible cannula extending from the base body and the insertion device with the protection device.

Abstract: A catheter head for medical and pharmaceutical applications, including a base body which may be positioned on organic tissue and a connecting body, serving as fluid connector for the base body, which has a fluid channel to form the fluid connection. The base body and the connecting body are detachably connected to each other and the base body includes: a) a housing b) a cannula, extending from the housing for introduction into the tissue, c) a seal element, retained by the housing, which has a connector face on which or by means of which the fluid channel of the connecting body may be hydraulically connected to the cannula, and d) a closing element, mounted on the housing which may be displaced relative to the sealing element and seals the sealing face of the sealing element in a closed position and opens the connecting body for the fluid channel in an open position.