From Hand Supported Injection Means Patents (Class 604/125)
  • Patent number: 7632251
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a volume-adjustable micro-injection device. The device includes a base structure having a syringe positioning structure and a grip, in which the syringe positioning structure can flexibly accommodate injection syringes with different volumes; a holding structure capable of flexibly adjusting an injection angle of syringe content for easier operation; a qualitative controller capable of accurately controlling injection volume; a pressure pushing structure to hold and push a plunger; an injection controller interlinked with the qualitative controller and the pressure pushing structure; and an eject structure facilitating simple operation and easy replacement of injection syringes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Dermato-Plastica Beauty (DPB) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsai-Ming Lin, Ping-Sen Liao
  • Publication number: 20090216190
    Abstract: A syringe includes a body having a distal end, a proximal end and a center section therebetween, a plunger movably disposed in the body, and a lip extending outward from the proximal end of the body. The outward extending lip has an outer diameter no greater than the outer diameter of the center section. The outward extending lip may extend around the circumference of the proximal end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: MEDRAD, INC.
    Inventors: Ralph H. Schriver, Michael A. Spohn, Thomas P. Joyce, Herbert M. Grubic, John A. Haury
  • Publication number: 20090204073
    Abstract: A system and method for degassing a fluid in a syringe comprising and inserting the fluid into a negative pressure device. The system may include a holder for holding the syringe; a guide affixed to the holder; a slide for holding a plunger of the syringe, the slide being movably attached to the guide; and a locking mechanism opposite the holder for maintaining a position of the slide. The fluid degasses when the locking mechanism maintains the position of the slide. The system may also include a piercing element adjacent the holder for piercing the syringe. The system and method may also be used for removing fluid from a negative pressure device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventor: David G. Powell
  • Patent number: 7534225
    Abstract: A system and method for degassing a fluid in a syringe comprising and inserting the fluid into a negative pressure device. The system may include a holder for holding the syringe; a guide affixed to the holder; a slide for holding a plunger of the syringe, the slide being movably attached to the guide; and a locking mechanism opposite the holder for maintaining a position of the slide. The fluid degasses when the locking mechanism maintains the position of the slide. The system may also include a piercing element adjacent the holder for piercing the syringe. The system and method may also be used for removing fluid from a negative pressure device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventor: David G. Powell
  • Publication number: 20030120220
    Abstract: A self-venting movable seal and plunger assembly for use in dispensing materials from cylindrical bodies is disclosed. The assembly includes a self-venting movable seal and a plunger tip that seats within a plunger tip pocket in the movable seal, occluding a vent in the movable seal. Methods of using the assembly to dispense materials are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Robert Lee, Brian G. Koethe, Theodore S. Swaback
  • Patent number: 6511457
    Abstract: A syringe having an air release assembly slidingly clamped to a syringe barrel, the air release assembly having a lower portion with a slider valve insert and an upper portion with a rearward facing chamber. The syringe barrel has an opening at the juncture of the barrel and a front wall and the air release assembly upper and lower portions define an opening. Forward movement of the air release assembly closes the barrel opening and prepares the syringe for fluid filling and fluid ejection. Rearward movement of the air release assembly aligns the barrel opening with the air release assembly opening so that slight plunger pressure ejects barrel liquid trapped air bubbles to an outside environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Inventor: Garey Thompson
  • Patent number: 5911708
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for injecting radiographic dye during angiography. A deformable holding chamber is interposed between a contrast dye bottle and a syringe manifold. A one-way valve and an integral disconnect/flow-stop are connected between the bottle and the holding chamber. A vent is provided in the holding chamber, which can include a second one-way valve. Squeezing and releasing the deformable chamber fills the chamber from the bottle. The holding chamber contains a floating baffle which acts as a shut off valve by plugging the chamber outlet if the chamber becomes empty. The syringe is used to withdraw dye from the holding chamber. If dye remains in the bottle after performance of the procedure, the disconnect/flow-stop fitting can be disconnected, and the dye can be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Inventor: Paul S. Teirstein
  • Patent number: 5779666
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for injecting radiographic dye during angiography are provided. A deformable holding chamber is interposed between a contrast dye bottle and a syringe manifold. A one-way valve and an integral disconnect/flow-stop are connected between the bottle and the holding chamber. A vent is provided in the holding chamber, with a second one-way valve. Squeezing and releasing the deformable chamber fills the chamber from the bottle. The holding chamber contains a floating baffle which acts as a shut off valve by plugging the chamber outlet if the chamber becomes empty. The syringe is used to withdraw dye from the holding chamber. If dye remains in the bottle after performance of the procedure, the disconnect/flow-stop fitting can be disconnected, and the dye can be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Inventor: Paul S. Teirstein
  • Patent number: 5533978
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for injecting radiographic dye during angiography are provided. A deformable holding chamber is interposed between a contrast dye bottle and a syringe manifold. A one-way valve and an integral disconnect/flow-stop are connected between the bottle and the holding chamber. A vent is provided in the holding chamber, with a second one-way valve. Squeezing and releasing the deformable chamber fills the chamber from the bottle. The holding chamber contains a floating baffle which acts as a shut off valve by plugging the chamber outlet if the chamber becomes empty. The syringe is used to withdraw dye from the holding chamber. If dye remains in the bottle after performance of the procedure, the disconnect/flow-stop fitting can be disconnected, and the dye can be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Inventor: Paul S. Teirstein
  • Patent number: 5324266
    Abstract: A blood sampling system incorporates a fluid storage mechanism which can be disposed along the longitudinal axis of a fluid line extending from an injection site to a fluid supply. Both the main body portion of the fluid storage mechanism and a fluid draw element of the fluid storage mechanism are axially aligned with the longitudinal axis of the fluid line. The fluid storage mechanism also incorporates a vortex inducer element at the distal end of the fluid draw element to induce a swirl of fluid to cleanse the fluid storage mechanism once a sample drawn into the fluid storage mechanism has been returned to the patient. An alternative embodiment of the fluid storage mechanism includes a volume control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: William M. Ambrisco, Lauretta Iwamasa, Anthony J. Pantages
  • Patent number: 5242405
    Abstract: A syringe barrel having graphics visualization features includes an elongate body portion having a longitudinal axis and a side wall spaced from the axis defining an inside diameter and a chamber for retaining fluid. The side wall includes a transparent portion having indicia and contrast means of substantially uniform color opposed from the indicia for improving readability of the indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventor: Wesley J. Howe
  • Patent number: 5062828
    Abstract: A small bore plastic syringe body is disclosed with improved visual amplification of interface surfaces between a light transmissive liquid and air within the syringe bore using a solid reflective colored strip on the syringe tube and located on one side thereof. An assembly including the syringe body provides a plunger and piston received within the tube to define an expansible chamber. The strip is narrower between its side edges than the outer tube diameter, yet is of sufficient width dimension that an image of the strip, when viewed through liquid in the expansible chamber, appears brightly and as wide as the tube. Where air is present in the expansible chamber, a diffused image of the strip will appear through the tube walls that is narrower than the actual strip width dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Inventor: Roger L. Waltz
  • Patent number: 4952209
    Abstract: Applicator syringe for a dental compound, with a syringe body (1) tapering into a thin discharge tube (3) and with a piston (5) displaceable in it, the applicator syringe being intended for once-only use. To avoid the need for special actuating tools, but make easy use possible, the effective cross-sectional surface is very small, in particular with a ratio of the useful stroke to the diameter of the syringe piston of at least approximately 10. So that the syringe can nevertheless be filled easily, the diameter of the cylindrical space in the rear portion of the latter is larger than the piston diameter. The syringe body (1) is first produced in a straight form and only thereafter is the discharge tube (3) bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Inventor: Ernst Muhlbauer
  • Patent number: 4941883
    Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable safety syringe which comprises a reservoir and a tubular sheath. The reservoir serves to aspire therein or to inject therefrom a fluid, while the tubular sheath is integrally attached to and in fluid communication with the reservoir. In the sheath there is located a hollow needle and a needle-carrying means, suitably a bushing, which are axially slidable between a position of safety and protection for the needle within said sheath and an operative position in which the needle is fully protruding outside of the tubular sheath. When in this latter position, the needle is in air-tight fluid communication with the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Inventor: Aldo Venturini
  • Patent number: 4798596
    Abstract: Applicator syringe for a dental compound, with a syringe body (1) tapering into a thin discharge tube (3) and with a piston (5) displaceable in it, the applicator syringe being intended for once-only use. To avoid the need for special actuating tools, but make easy use possible, the effective cross-sectional surface is very small, in particular with a ratio of the useful stroke to the diameter of the syringe piston of at least approximately 10. So that the syringe can nevertheless be filled easily, the diameter of the cylindrical space in the rear portion of the latter is larger than the piston diameter. The syringe body (1) is first produced in a straight form and only thereafter is the discharge tube (3) bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Inventor: Ernst Muhlbauer
  • Patent number: 4792066
    Abstract: In a chemical liquid injector mainly for use in filling with a chemical liquid cracks developed in a wall of a concrete building and a gap between the wall and the underlying concrete body, an air-escape groove is provided in the interior surface of the injector casing. While in use a mouthpiece is attached to a nozzle of the injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Pan American Trading Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naohiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4715854
    Abstract: The multidose syringe is provided with two pistons which are attached by a string to move simultaneously. A groove in the barrel for delivering fluid into and from the innermost fluid chamber is provided with baffles to create turbulence in the fluid flow to preclude entry of air into the fluid chamber between the pistons during filling of the syringe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Inventor: Vincent L. Vaillancourt
  • Patent number: 4466446
    Abstract: This invention relates to an improved plunger subassembly for use in a blood gas syringe barrel characterized by a pushrod having a piston on its front end with a hollow interior defining a fluid collection chamber communicating with both the front and rear ends thereof by passageways blocked by a filter that will pass gases but is impervious to fluids. With the plunger subassembly in its passive state, blood and gas entering the syringe barrel from the front is free to enter the collection chamber by means of slits on the periphery of the piston at its front end. The contaminated blood that has been in contact with the air originally in the syringe barrel is trapped in the fluid collection chamber inside the piston while the gases pass on through the filter and are vented to the atmosphere. Opposed surfaces on the pushrod and piston cooperate to define an air-tight seal effective to prevent the flow of air past the piston when the plunger subassemlby is actuated to retract same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1984
    Assignee: Marquest Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Balinderjeet S. Baidwan, Dean H. Iwasaki