Patents by Inventor Susanne Schenker

Susanne Schenker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11524118
    Abstract: A dosing mechanism for an injection device includes a dose-setting element with a first element coupled thereto, which, during dose setting, is rotatable relative to a second element about a main rotation axis in a first direction and, during dose discharge, is fixed in rotation relative to the second element. The first and the second elements are coupled via a sleeve-shaped stop element, which forms a stop abutment. The dosing mechanism includes a stop, and the stop abutment, during the rotation of the first element in the first direction, executes a movement to a stop position where the stop abutment strikes the stop and prevents rotation of the first element relative to the second element in the first direction of rotation. The sleeve-shaped stop element is rotatable about a secondary rotation axis, which is offset parallel to or offset at an angle to the main rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ypsomed AG
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit, Patrick Hostettler
  • Publication number: 20220362458
    Abstract: Needle insertion mechanisms include a housing and a needle holder, the needle holder being linearly guided by the housing to be moved along the needle-axis. A slider linearly guided by the housing and transversally moveable with respect to the needle-axis from a first to a second slider position. The needle holder is operatively coupled to the slider when the slider is in the first position, thereby retaining the needle holder in a retracted position against the bias of a spring acting on the needle holder. In the second position the slider is decoupled from the needle holder and the holder is moved into an inserted position by the spring. A blocking member arranged between the slider and the housing blocking movement of the slider into the second position, is moved by an active drive thereby unblocking the movement of the slider and subsequently moving the slider to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Christian Schrul, Stefan Burren, Mario Bernhard, Andres Mellenberger, Markus Tschirren, Michael Dobler, Marc Fiechter, Susanne Schenker
  • Publication number: 20220241497
    Abstract: An assembly for a cartridge needle insertion mechanism includes a housing, a cartridge needle defining a cartridge needle axis and a cartridge closed by a septum. A cartridge needle slider is linearly guided by the housing along an insertion axis to be moved by a driver from a first position, where the cartridge needle is not penetrating the septum, to a second position where the cartridge needle penetrates the septum of the cartridge. A cartridge needle holder holding the cartridge needle is operatively coupled with the cartridge needle slider to be moved with the cartridge needle slider from the first to the second position. The assembly includes a compliant coupling between the cartridge needle holder and the cartridge needle slider configured to facilitate movement of the cartridge needle holder with respect to the slider when moved into the second position, thereby compensating for needle penetration forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan Burren, Mario Bernhard, Andres Mellenberger, Markus Tschirren, Susanne Schenker, Christian Schrul
  • Patent number: 11229748
    Abstract: A drive and metering apparatus for an injection apparatus for releasing a liquid product, the drive and metering apparatus comprising: a) a housing, b) a dose adjustment member, which is rotatable relative to the housing for adjusting the product dose to be released, c) an actuation member which is displaceable from a non-actuated position, which it assumes while adjusting the product dose to be released, into an actuated position, which it assumes while it releases the product, wherein the displacement of the actuation member into the actuated position triggers a product release and the actuation member comprises an actuation section, which is accessible to a user of the drive and metering apparatus and by means of which the user can displace the actuation member from the non-actuated position into the actuated position, d) wherein the actuation section is arranged distally in relation to the dose adjustment member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Ypsomed AG
    Inventors: Ursina Streit, Susanne Schenker, Jürg Hirschel
  • Publication number: 20200405951
    Abstract: An injection device configured for attachment to the skin of a patient includes a housing and a skin adhesive layer attached to an external surface of the housing for attaching the injection device to the skin of a patient. A release liner covering the skin adhesive layer prevents the injection device from attaching to the skin. A film with one end connected to a surface inside of the housing forms a removable sterile barrier and the other end connected to an external surface of the release liner without contacting the skin adhesive layer. The housing, skin adhesive layer and release liner each include a notch defining a passage for the film so that the second end of the film can extend from the interior to the exterior of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Burren, Mario Bernhard, Susanne Schenker, Andres Mellenberger, Christian Schrul, Markus Tschirren
  • Publication number: 20200405950
    Abstract: An injection device configured for attachment to the skin of a patient using an adhesive layer includes a release liner covering the adhesive layer thereby preventing skin attachment. The release liner comprises a sheet of material where a first surface contacts the adhesive layer, and an aperture defining a passage for a film connected to a first sterile barrier film located within the injection device. An end of the film is connected to a second surface of the sheet of material that is opposite to the first surface, and the release liner is covered by a strengthening sheet connected to the second surface and covering the aperture and the end of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Burren, Mario Bernhard, Bernhard Bigler, Susanne Schenker, Andres Mellenberger, Christian Schrul, Markus Tschirren
  • Publication number: 20200139052
    Abstract: A dosing mechanism for an injection device includes a dose-setting element with a first element coupled thereto, which, during dose setting, is rotatable relative to a second element about a main rotation axis in a first direction and, during dose discharge, is fixed in rotation relative to the second element. The first and the second elements are coupled via a sleeve-shaped stop element, which forms a stop abutment. The dosing mechanism includes a stop, and the stop abutment, during the rotation of the first element in the first direction, executes a movement to a stop position where the stop abutment strikes the stop and prevents rotation of the first element relative to the second element in the first direction of rotation. The sleeve-shaped stop element is rotatable about a secondary rotation axis, which is offset parallel to or offset at an angle to the main rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit, Patrick Hostettler
  • Patent number: 10603443
    Abstract: A driving and dosing device for an injection device for discharging a liquid product includes a housing, a rotatable dose adjustment member for adjusting a product dose to be discharged, a driven member received in the housing, a driving member rotatable relative to the housing and which, during the discharge of product, is coupled to the driven member such that a rotation of the driving member has the effect that the driven member is moved in the distal direction relative to the housing, a pretensioned driving spring which is switched between the dose adjustment member and the driving member during the adjustment of the product dose, wherein the dose adjustment member, during the adjustment of the product dose, is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the driving member, such that a rotation of the driving member relative to the dosing member is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit, Patrick Hostettler
  • Patent number: 10596327
    Abstract: A drive and dosing device is described for an injection device for administering a fluid product, in particular a medication, wherein the drive and dosing device can be adjusted to a product dose to be administered. The drive and dosing device has, among other things, a coupling which, upon activation of an activation element, enables rotation of a rotation element relative to a housing, wherein by disengaging the activation element, the rotation of the rotation element relative to the housing is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit
  • Patent number: 10561799
    Abstract: A spring assembly for an administering device includes a driving spring configured as a spiral spring and a spring shaft. An inner end of the spring is rotationally fixedly attached to the spring shaft. A spring sleeve extends around the circumferential region of the spring, wherein the outer end of the spring is connected to the spring sleeve in a rotationally fixed manner and a disk-type spring-sleeve cover is attached to the spring sleeve or the spring shaft. The flange and the spring-sleeve cover extend radially away from an axis of the spring shaft and the flange is arranged near a distal end of the spring shaft. A radial stop is arranged on the flange periphery, and a blocking element is arranged on the spring sleeve to be complementary to the radial stop for releasably rotationally securing to each other when the blocking element and the radial stop engage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG
    Inventors: Christian Schrul, Markus Tschirren, Susanne Schenker, Patrick Hostettler, Ursina Streit
  • Patent number: 10537685
    Abstract: A dosing mechanism for an injection device includes a dose-setting element with a first element coupled thereto, which, during dose setting, is rotatable relative to a second element about a main rotation axis in a first direction and, during dose discharge, is fixed in rotation relative to the second element. The first and the second elements are coupled via a sleeve-shaped stop element, which forms a stop abutment. The dosing mechanism includes a stop, and the stop abutment, during the rotation of the first element in the first direction, executes a movement to a stop position where the stop abutment strikes the stop and prevents rotation of the first element relative to the second element in the first direction of rotation. The sleeve-shaped stop element is rotatable about a secondary rotation axis, which is offset parallel to or offset at an angle to the main rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit, Patrick Hostettler
  • Patent number: 10413673
    Abstract: The invention relates to a driving device for an injection device for administration of a liquid drug. The driving device has inter alia a rotary member, rotation of which relative to the housing causes a pretensioned spring to move a propulsion member in the dispensing direction, and a coupling which is closed and is opened by pressing of an actuating member, the opened coupling enabling the rotation of the rotary member in a first direction of rotation, and the actuating member being coupled to the rotary member such that pressing of the actuating member causes the rotary member to rotate already when the coupling is still closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit, Juerg Hirschel
  • Patent number: 10350358
    Abstract: A driving and dosing device for an injection device configured for dose setting and dose administration includes: a housing, a dose indicating element including a circumferential dose scale, a pointing device and a dosing element gripped by a user. In order to set the dose to be administered, the dosing element is rotatable such that the dose indicating element is rotatable or screwable about an axis of rotation relative to the pointing device, and a value of the dose scale that corresponds to the set dose is readable by means of the pointing device. A bearing element, with which the dose indicating element is in an engagement, causes the rotational or screwing motion of the dose indicating element relative to the pointing device, characterized in that the bearing element can be moved together with the dose indicating element relative to the housing and along the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit
  • Publication number: 20180361072
    Abstract: A drive and metering apparatus for an injection apparatus for releasing a liquid product, the drive and metering apparatus comprising: a) a housing, b) a dose adjustment member, which is rotatable relative to the housing for adjusting the product dose to be released, c) an actuation member which is displaceable from a non-actuated position, which it assumes while adjusting the product dose to be released, into an actuated position, which it assumes while it releases the product, wherein the displacement of the actuation member into the actuated position triggers a product release and the actuation member comprises an actuation section, which is accessible to a user of the drive and metering apparatus and by means of which the user can displace the actuation member from the non-actuated position into the actuated position, d) wherein the actuation section is arranged distally in relation to the dose adjustment member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Ursina Streit, Susanne Schenker, Jürg Hirschel
  • Patent number: 10149948
    Abstract: A driving and dosing device for an injection device includes: a housing, a dosing element gripped by a user, an actuating element actuable by the user to discharge the set dose, a propulsion element for acting on a piston to discharge the set dose, a spring configured to act between the propulsion element and an abutment, which is preloaded so as to discharge a maximum dischargeable product quantity in a plurality of individual discharges, a rotation element configured to rotate relative to the housing and a clutch configured for releasably engaging the rotation element. Releasing the clutch permits the rotation element to rotate relative to the housing when the actuating element is actuated, blocks the rotation of the rotation element relative to the housing when the actuating element is released, and by rotation of the rotation element, the spring is permitted to move the propulsion element in the discharge direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: TECPHARMA LICENSING AG
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit
  • Patent number: 10137253
    Abstract: A driving and dosing device for an injection device for administering a liquid product, in particular a medication, wherein a product dose to be administered can be set by means of the driving and dosing device, comprising: a) a housing, b) a dose indicating element, around the circumference of which a dose scale is arranged, c) a pointing device and a (d) dosing element that can be gripped in particular by the user of the driving and dosing device, wherein the dose indicating element can be rotated, in particular screwed, relative to the pointing device and about an axis of rotation (L) and a value of the dose scale that corresponds to the set dose can be read by means of the pointing device, in order to set the dose to be administered by rotating the dosing element relative to the pointing device, and e); a discharge spring, which stores the energy required for discharging the product, wherein the discharge spring is loaded by means of rotation of the dosing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: TECPHARMA LICENSING AG
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit
  • Publication number: 20180221583
    Abstract: A device for administering an active substance comprises a multi-chamber carpule having a bypass in one wall and at least one first chamber with a solid active substance and a second chamber with a solvent for the active substance, the second chamber being delimited by a first plug arranged distally in the multi-chamber carpule and a second plug arranged proximally therein; a mixing element is rotatably mounted about a rotational axis in relation to the housing and can be rotated about the rotational axis in a rotational direction in order to mix the active substance and the solvent; and a first detent device is provided on the device such that, after the mixing operation, an axial displacement of the distal end of the second plug in relation to the wall of the multi-chamber carpule is blocked in the proximal direction by means of the distal end of the bypass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit
  • Publication number: 20180110926
    Abstract: A spring assembly for an administering device includes a driving spring configured as a spiral spring and a spring shaft. An inner end of the spring is rotationally fixedly attached to the spring shaft. A spring sleeve extends around the circumferential region of the spring, wherein the outer end of the spring is connected to the spring sleeve in a rotationally fixed manner and a disk-type spring-sleeve cover is attached to the spring sleeve or the spring shaft. The flange and the spring-sleeve cover extend radially away from an axis of the spring shaft and the flange is arranged near a distal end of the spring shaft. A radial stop is arranged on the flange periphery, and a blocking element is arranged on the spring sleeve to be complementary to the radial stop for releasably rotationally securing to each other when the blocking element and the radial stop engage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Christian Schrul, Markus Tschirren, Susanne Schenker, Patrick Hostettler, Ursina Streit
  • Patent number: 9744311
    Abstract: Drive and metering devices for injection devices include a dose display element with a helical dosage scale; an indicating means; a metering member, which can be rotated relative to the indicating means for dose setting; a discharge spring and an advancement member. The dose display element can be screwed relative to the indicating means about a longitudinal axis (L) and a value on the dose scale can be read via the indicating means corresponding to the set dose. The discharge spring causes the advancement member to discharge the product as it moves an overall discharge stroke length (Hg), where the overall discharge stroke length (Hg) comprises a first partial discharge stroke length (H1), during which the dose display element is rotationally secured in relation to the indicating means and where the dose display element can be rotated relative to the indicating means following the first partial discharge stroke length (H1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: TecPharma Licensing AG
    Inventors: Ursina Streit, Susanne Schenker
  • Publication number: 20170035973
    Abstract: A dosing mechanism for an injection device includes a dose-setting element with a first element coupled thereto, which, during dose setting, is rotatable relative to a second element about a main rotation axis in a first direction and, during dose discharge, is fixed in rotation relative to the second element. The first and the second elements are coupled via a sleeve-shaped stop element, which forms a stop abutment. The dosing mechanism includes a stop, and the stop abutment, during the rotation of the first element in the first direction, executes a movement to a stop position where the stop abutment strikes the stop and prevents rotation of the first element relative to the second element in the first direction of rotation. The sleeve-shaped stop element is rotatable about a secondary rotation axis, which is offset parallel to or offset at an angle to the main rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Susanne Schenker, Ursina Streit, Patrick Hostettler