Abstract: A needle shield assembly and method of manufacturing a needle shield are provided. The needle shield assembly includes a needle hub having a needle cannula extending therefrom. A needle shield base is pivotably coupled to the needle hub. A locking assembly including a needle engagement member is coupled to the needle shield base. One or both of the needle shield base and the locking assembly include a cavity for receiving the needle cannula. The needle shield is manufactured by providing a needle shield base and a separate locking assembly including a needle engagement member, and connecting the locking assembly to the distal end portion of the needle shield base.

Abstract: Medical needle shield apparatus including a shield with two or more segments hingedly connected to each other and movable from a retracted position where the needle is exposed, to an extended position where the shield extends beyond the end of the needle. The needle is affixed in a hub of a medical needle device, and the shield is articulated to the hub. At least one of the two or more segments has an open orifice through which the needle passes to form an axis of intersection about the needle. The shield includes a channel for covering the needle when the shield is linearly extended. One or more locks associated with one or more of the segments secures one or more of the segments relative to the shield in the extended position. A latch is also disposed on the distal segment for securing the distal segment relative to the shield when in the extended position.

Abstract: A needle apparatus (10) includes a tubular needle (20) with a sharp point (22). The apparatus also includes a shielding means and movement means (17) in which the movement means is temperature sensitive. Upon the needle being inserted into tissue the movement means is heated by body heat and causes the needle and the shielding means to move relatively to render the sharp point safe. Preferably the movement means contains shape memory alloy.

Abstract: A protector sheath for winged needle capable of accommodating a winged needle having a needle tube with a sharp blade edge, a hub firmly attached to a proximal end portion of the needle tube, and a wing provided on the hub is provided. The protector sheath has a cylindrical main body, at least one slit is provided in a side wall of the main body, a proximal end portion of the slit is provided so as to be parallel to the axis of the main body, and a distal end portion of the slit is provided so as to extend in a direction which is not parallel to the axial direction of the main body.

Abstract: To retrofit a conventional needle hub assembly with a needle protection housing, a sleeve having a collar rotatably fitted thereabout is fitted to the needle hub. The sleeve has a proximal portion and a distal portion. The proximal portion has a diameter that is dimensioned to fit over the needle hub while the distal portion has a diameter that allows the needle cap of the needle hub assembly to be inserted thereinto so as to be frictionally coupled to the needle hub. There are a plurality of flanges or ears extending at the proximal end of the proximal portion. These flanges are configured to overlie the flanges formed at the base of the needle hub used to mate with the luer of a syringe. When the needle hub assembly is threadingly mated to the luer of the syringe, the sleeve, along with the collar mounted thereabout and to which the needle protection housing is attached, is also mated to the luer.

Abstract: There is here provided a wing-like needle protector which can surely prevent mistaken sticking, and can safely cap a hollow needle. The wing-like needle protector for housing a wing-like needle 1 which comprises a hollow needle 2, a holding cylinder 3 for holding a rear end of the hollow needle 2, and a pair of wing pieces 4, 4 formed integrally with the holding cylinder 3 so as to freely coalesce with each other. The protector comprises a gutter-shaped member 7 for housing the hollow needle 2, the holding cylinder 3 and the coalesced wing pieces 4, 4, and a gripper 8 protruded outward from a bottom surface of the gutter-shaped member 7. The gutter-shaped member 7 has a closed tip 9a of a portion 9 for housing the hollow needle 2, an opened rear end 10a of a portion 10 for housing the holding cylinder 3, and a narrowed area 7a where the holding cylinder 3 is fitted in a bottom portion, and the holding cylinder 3 is engaged with the narrowed area 7a.

Abstract: A disposable, safe needle sheath assembly comprises a barrel unit including a hollow barrel, a forward extension adapted to insert through a wing unit into a cap, and a T-shaped slot longitudinally formed thereon, a transverse bar of the slot including a locking device in a right side, and a needle unit including a hollow plunger, a needle, two opposite latched members raised above an edge of a rear end, and a circumferential protrusion, the protrusion being projected from the slot after inserting the needle unit in the barrel unit. Removing the cap and sliding the protrusion from the transverse bar to a distal end of the slot will project the needle from the extension for dispensing medicine. To the contrary sliding the protrusion from the distal end of the slot to the locking device will lock the protrusion therein.

Abstract: A passively shieldable needle assembly set is provided for use with a tube holder. The assembly includes a needle cannula, a hub mounted to the needle cannula and a tip guard slidably movable along the needle cannula. The tip guard can be slid into a distal position where the tip of the needle cannula is safely shielded. A collapsible guard drive is mounted to the hub and includes a pair of collapsible leaves extending from the hub to the tip guard. The leaves have a length that enable the tip guard to move into shielding engagement around the tip of the needle cannula, while preventing complete removal of the tip guard from the needle cannula. The leaves are resiliently deformable and can be collapsed onto themselves and onto the hub. The leaves can be retained in their collapsed condition by a packaging cover and subsequently by the grip of a medical practitioner.

Abstract: A shieldable needle device is provided. The shieldable needle device includes a housing, a needle cannula, a tip guard and a flexibly resilient drive mechanism. The housing includes a first lateral extension and a second lateral extension which are interconnected at a rearward end to form a hub portion from which the needle cannula extends. The tip guard telescopes over the needle cannula from a retracted position to an extended position. The drive mechanism is attached to the tip guard and is bent or coiled within the housing between the first and second lateral extension and retained in the bent or coiled position. Upon release of the drive mechanism, the tip guard is moved from a retracted position to an extended position, thereby protectively surrounding a tip of the needle cannula.

Abstract: Cannula with protection cap for medical infusion lines and the like, comprising a hollow body provided at one end with a female luer lock connector and at the other end with an axial tubular ferrule. The hollow body and the protection cap are provided with respective formations for mutual torsional coupling acting in the direction of rotation corresponding to the unscrewing of the female luer lock connector relative to a male luer lock connector of the medical line.

Abstract: A needle sheath assembly comprises a butterfly needle coupled to an IV tubing, and a plastic sheath comprising two rear side slits, two pairs of upper and lower snapping members, a latched member in front of the slits, a slot extended forward from the latched member. The needle is concealed in the sheath. The upper and lower snapping members secured together. In use push the wings forward along the slot until the needle projects from the aperture. After use pull the wings rearward until the needle has concealed in the sheath and a joint of the wings has moved in the slits prior to pushing the wings forward again until being stopped by the latched member. This can eliminate a possibility of accidentally pricking a medical worker after use. Also, criminals are prevented from selling needle sheath assemblies to hospitals again by simply cleaning or even disinfecting the used needles.

Abstract: The present invention protects a distal portion of a catheter during shipment and storage. The device holds the distal portion suspended such that it does not contact the device. The suspended portion is protected from damage resulting from abrasion. When the suspended portion includes a therapeutic coating, the coating is protected from the risk of impaired performance resulting from a therapeutic agent migrating out of the coating and into the packaging material or components of the packaging material migrating into the therapeutic coating, both of which can occur if a therapeutic coating remains in contact with another material for an extended period of time.

Abstract: A medical needle device is provided with a winged shield 4 having a cylindrical shield tube 4a and wings 5 and 6 linked to a front end side of the shield tube, a hub 2 inserted into the shield tube, and a cannula 1. The wings have wing protrusions 7 and 8. The shield tube has through holes 9 and 10 on its tubular wall and front end protrusions 15 and 16 formed on its inner circumferential surface at an axial position corresponding to the through holes. The hub has a step portion 26 formed at an outer surface of front end portion. The front end protrusion can be engaged with the step portion of the hub, and further the wing protrusions can be engaged with the step portion by bending the two wings so that the wing protrusions pass through the through hole. With the cannula protruding from the front end of the shield tube, the hub is held so as not to move inside the shield tube toward the base end by letting the front end protrusion or the wing protrusions engaged with the step portion.

Abstract: A safety needle assembly comprising a needle with a distal needle end having a sleeve member which has a distal sleeve end forming an aperture. The sleeve member is mounted to the needle by accommodating the same through its sleeve end's aperture. The sleeve member is axially movable toward the distal needle end until the needle becomes displaced from the aperture and the distal needle end is contained within the distal sleeve end.

Abstract: A shieldable needle assembly of the present invention includes an elongate needle with a proximal and a distal end that has an outside surface and a hollow bore therethrough. The assembly has a hub fixedly attached at the proximal end of the needle for attaching the assembly to a fluid handling device so that the bore of the needle is in fluid communication with the fluid handling device. The assembly has a guard disposed for selective slidable movement on the needle between a proximal position wherein the distal end of the needle is exposed and a distal position wherein the distal end of the needle is substantially protected from inadvertent exposure. The guard has a passageway therethrough sized to form a substantially fluid tight seal about the outside surface of the needle.

Abstract: A protection device for a needle with a curved tip (7) is provided, comprising a tubular part (20) which can be moved along the needle shank (6) and from which at least one elastic arm (30) protrudes in the axial direction in such a way that the free end of said arm bears, with pretensioning, on the needle shank and, upon reaching the needle tip, engages over and covers the latter, said tubular part (20) being configured in such a way that it cannot be pushed over the curved needle tip (7)

Abstract: A blood collection assembly includes a needle cannula with an intravenous end and a non-patient end. The cannula is mounted to a needle holder so that the non-patient-end projects into the holder. A safety shield is telescoped over the needle cannula and is movable from a proximal position where the non-patient end of the cannula is exposed to a distal position where the non-patient end of the cannula is shielded. The safety shield is configured to be passively actuated and propelled into the distal position in response to insertion of a blood collection tube into the holder. However, a slide back actuator extends from the safety shield to permit the shield to be retracted into a proximal position during use and before the safety shield is locked in the distal position.

Abstract: A cannula cover for use with an injector or injection device, wherein the injector or injection device includes a dosing section and a cannula support, and wherein the cover is attached to the cannula support and can be retracted against a bias in order to expose a cannula, said cannula cover including, in one embodiment, a substantially closed front facing side having an openable cannula passage opening.

Abstract: A device for producing a jet of water has a portable handheld water reservoir to be filled with warm or cold water manually by the user, a battery powered handheld air or water pump to create water pressure for the generation of water jet which is delivered through a handheld nozzle system, a thin flexible disposable nozzle protector for sanitary protection of the non-disposable nozzle and nozzle tip, and an optional new medicine dispenser on the nozzle system.

Abstract: An automatically retractable safety syringe includes a needle assembly consisting of a cannula, a needle hub and a rubber O-ring, a needle cap, a retracting spring, a breakable and retractable plunger, a plunger gasket and a medicine barrel; in accordance with the structure of the said automatically retractable safety syringe of the present invention, since the breakable plunger is assembled inside the medicine barrel, after being pushed all the way to the end, it is forced to break automatically into two parts for reducing it's length so as to provide enough space for the retracting spring to drive the needle assembly moving along the sliding passages for accomplishing an automatically retracting action.

Abstract: The tamper-evident closure is provided for a syringe with a Luer connection or a Luer lock connection, wherein at least the connection end consists of plastic. A cap which is connected to the syringe via at least one frangible web. The cap and the frangible web together with a fixation component are formed as one piece as a plastic injection molded part and are connected to the connection end of the syringe by way of welding.

Abstract: Bilumen catheters and methods of using same for facilitating implantation of cardiac leads for applying electrical stimulation to and/or sensing electrical activity of the heart through one or more electrode positioned at an implantation site within a heart chamber or cardiac vessel adjacent a heart chamber, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for introducing such a cardiac lead having low torqueability and pushability through a tortuous pathway to enable attachment of the cardiac lead at the implantation site employing a bilumen guide catheter are disclosed. The bilumen catheter body includes a relatively large diameter delivery lumen to introduce a small diameter cardiac lead and a small diameter guide lumen to receive a stylet or guidewire to locate the guide catheter body distal end at the implantation site. The small diameter lumen within a small diameter guide tube extends distally from the delivery exit port of the delivery lumen.

Abstract: A single use syringe uses a “pinching” action between a specially designed plunger and a specially designed needle holder to shoot the needle back into the syringe body upon completion of the piston stroke. The needle is not biased by a helical spring and the syringe remains in an unbiased condition until the plunger is pushed against the needle holder that creates the pinching action to shoot the needle back into the syringe body.

Abstract: It is a kind of syringe needle. An external bushing on needle connects with a base, and a barrier structure on the base contacts with the needle, which is an extended bushing on base frame. At the front end of the bushing there is a truct part on which a needle is inserted. The external bushing is made of soft material. A trepan boring on the front end of the base is connected with the truct-admitting part. Moving the barrier structure away from the needle and pushing the base back, the trepan boring of the base covers outside of truct part of the needle. The base is fixed on the needle by the friction from between the wall of trepan boring and out side of truct part.

Abstract: The syringe is a prefillable or prefilled syringe having a syringe cylinder which is delimited to one side by a plunger and which to the other side opens into a syringe connection having a free end closed by a membrane. The syringe cylinder, the syringe connection and the closing membrane are formed as one piece as a plastic injection molded part.

Abstract: A cannula support including an inner thread turning in a first direction and an outer thread turning in a second, opposite direction, and a system including the cannula support and a protective cap having an inner thread which can engage with the outer thread of the cannula support. In one embodiment, the invention is a cannula support including a plug-on or push-on protective cap, wherein a latching element is provided on the cannula support and a corresponding element is provided on the protective cap in order to create a latching connection, and encompasses a method for securing or covering a cannula carried by the cannular support, the cannula temporarily covered when the protective cap is arranged on the cannula support but the latching and corresponding elements are not engaged with each other, and permanently covered when the latching and corresponding elements are engaged with each other.

Abstract: A blood collection assembly includes a needle cannula, a hub mounted on the needle cannula, and a spring biased pivoting shield pivotably mounted to the hub and moveable about a pivot axis between a retracted position and a shielded position encompassing a distal end of the needle cannula. A needle holder is mated at a first end with the hub, and is adapted for receiving a blood collection container such as an evacuated tube through the opposing end. A retaining member is attached to the pivoting shield and is releasably engageable with the hub to maintain the pivoting shield in the retracted position against the spring bias. Insertion of a blood collection tube into the needle holder causes the retaining member to release from engagement with the hub, thereby causing the pivoting shield to move toward the shielded position due to the spring bias.

Abstract: A winged needle cover capable of storing an entire needle with flexible wing in the state of the needle tube part of the winged needle not projected again, comprising a tip side opening part for taking therein the entire winged needle having a flexible tube connected thereto and a base side opening part allowing the flexible tube to pass therethrough, characterized in that, a wing part folding promoting means capable of upwardly reversing the wing part of the winged needle for folding when the entire winged needle is taken from the tip side opening part into the needle cover is provided at the tip side opening part, whereby, the needle cover can easily store the winged needle after servicing, makes it hard for the stored needle to be re-projected and, because any special means is not provided for prevention of re-projection, can be manufactured easily at a low cost.

Abstract: A safety needle includes a needle with a sharp end and a needle shield. The needle shield includes collapsible interlocking members, wherein one member is an end member with a hole surrounding the needle, a spring inside the collapsible interlocking members that applies an expanding force on the collapsible interlocking members, a releasable latch structure that retains the collapsible interlocking members in a collapsed state, wherein when the releasable latch structure is actuated the collapsible interlocking members expand and enclose the sharp end of the needle, and a closing structure that prevents the sharp end of the needle from exiting the hole after the collapsible interlocking members enclose the sharp end of the needle.

Abstract: A surgical device for injecting a chemical agent within a subject for use in endoscopic injection therapies is disclosed. The device includes a support body, a motion transmitting unit, an agent delivery system and a guide housing. The motion transmitting unit is movable relative to the support body. The agent delivery system includes a needle for extending into a subject and structure defining a conduit between the support body and the needle. The guide housing has a flexible elongated body, an internal elongated passage and friction reducing material lining the passage. At least a portion of the motion transmitting unit adjacent the needle is slideably housed within the guide housing. The device offers a surgeon improved ease of needle extension and retraction when the distal end of the endoscope is bent at acute angles.

Abstract: A cylindrical needle guard for attaching and protecting a medical winged needle assembly to which a tube is connected, comprising at least two or more projecting portions on the top sidewall from the front portion to the rear portion, a slit at the bottom of the rear portion along a longitudinal direction of the needle guard, and a groove to fix the tube on the top sidewall of the rear portion; or comprising a pair of stoppers on both sides of the body and locking portions at thick portions and at the bottom of the stoppers for locking the wings of the winged needle assembly. This winged needle assembly to which the tube is connected is safely and securely retracted and locked in the needle guard.

Abstract: A needle-stick safety syringe includes an inner tubular body, plunger, and needle extending from a distal end of said inner tubular body, an outer tubular housing concentrically and slidingly surrounding at least a portion of the inner tubular body and biased apart from the inner tubular body. A recess is defined within an interior wall surface of the outer tubular housing, and a latch attached to a distal end of the inner tubular body. The latch includes a ring-shaped collar attached to the distal end of the inner tubular body and includes a cantilevered push-stop. A portion of the cantilevered push-stop is sized to fit within the recess when the latch is sufficiently disposed within the outer tubular housing.

Abstract: A medical needle shield apparatus including a shield that is extensible from a retracted position to an extended position to enclose a distal end of a needle. A binding member is disposed within the shield and defines binding surfaces that form an aperture configured for slidable receipt of the needle between the retracted position and the extended position. The binding member includes drag inducing members disposed thereon that engage the needle during slidable receipt of the needle to create a drag force with the needle. The drag force facilitates rotation of the binding member relative to a longitudinal axis of the needle such that the binding surfaces engage the needle to prevent slidable movement of the needle in the extended position of the shield. The binding member further includes a retainer extending therefrom such that the retainer is engageable with the needle to prevent rotation of the binding member prior to the extended position.

Abstract: A medical needle shield apparatus is provided that includes a needle hub having an outer needle cannula extending therefrom. An inner needle is disposed for slidable movement with the outer needle cannula. At least one shield is extensible from a retracted position to an extended position to enclose a distal end of the inner needle. The shield includes a binding member disposed within the shield and defines binding surfaces that form an aperture configured for slidable receipt of the inner needle. The binding member includes at least one drag inducing member that engages the inner needle during slidable receipt to create a drag force. The drag force facilitates rotation of the binding member such that the binding surfaces engage the inner needle to prevent slidable movement. The binding member further includes a needle communicating surface extending therefrom that is engageable with the inner needle to prevent rotation of the binding member.

Abstract: A safety device for protecting the needle of a blood collector includes a guard member that automatically covers the needle, after a blood collection procedure has been completed. Prior to the procedure, the guard member is restrained on the device in a proximal position to expose the needle, and to thereby facilitate the insertion of the needle into a vein of a patient. When a blood collection vial is engaged with the device, the guard member is released to move distally over the needle. Thus, after a procedure, and as the needle is being withdrawn from the patient, the guard member covers the needle to protect against subsequent inadvertent “sticks”.

Abstract: Provided is an assembly in which a needle is safely housed in a cover. A safety mechanism prevents the needle from being removed from a device, unless the needle is in a “needle safe position”.

Abstract: A needle assembly includes a needle hub with opposite proximal and distal ends and a passage extending between the ends. The needle cannula has a proximal end mounted in the passage of the hub and a distal end aligned at an angle to the proximal end. Wings project transversely from the hub to facilitate a temporary affixation of the needle assembly to a patient. A safety shield is hingedly mounted to the hub and can be rotated from an open position spaced from the needle cannula so that the distal end of the needle cannula can be used to deliver a drug to a patient. The shield also can be rotated to a closed position where the distal end of the needle cannula is safely enclosed within the shield. Locking structure on the shield prevents re-exposure of the needle cannula.

Abstract: A safety needle device for protecting a user against needle-stick injuries. This needle device includes a needle housing having a distal housing opening. A needle is disposed within the needle housing and has a distal needle portion which extends away therefrom through the distal housing opening. An elongate sheath assembly surrounds the needle within the needle housing. A biasing member is engaged to the sheath assembly and is configured to apply a force thereupon towards the distal housing opening. A trigger member is engaged to the biasing member for retaining the sheath assembly within the needle housing against the force urging the sheath assembly towards the distal housing opening. The trigger member is sized and configured to release the biasing member. This allows the sheath assembly to transition towards and out of the distal housing opening via the force to thereby enclose the distal needle portion therewith.

Abstract: A prefilled syringe of cartridge barrel having a tamper evident closure. Tamper evidence is provided by: a frangible tip seal which is integral with the tapered tip of the barrel; a frangible tip cap covering the tip, the tip seal and a portion of the distal end of the barrel; and an overwrap covering the frangible tip cap and the distal end of the barrel sealed to the distal end of the barrel by a tamper evident seal. The tapered tip is optionally equipped with a luer collar to receive an external luer connector. Alternatively, the tapered tip can be provided with a bore therethrough which can be closed with an elastomeric plug and the external connector can be a tubing conduit.

Abstract: A shielded, sterile, single-use unit dose needle assembly includes a unit dose needle with a hub and two packaging shields sealingly mated to one another encasing the hub and unit dose needle. The unit dose needle has a handle end and a patient end configured to hold a unit dose of a vaccine. The hub is fixedly attached to the unit dose needle between the handle end and the patient end. The first packaging shield extends over the patient end, and the second packaging shield extends over the handle end of the unit dose needle. The first and second packaging shields are removably attached to one another to form an air-tight sterility seal, with the unit dose needle contained within the first packaging shield.

Abstract: To prevent fluid collected at a contaminated needle from being splattered to the environment when the housing of a needle protection device is pivoted to enclose the needle, a bias member is provided in the needle protective housing to provide damping for the needle as the needle is moved within the housing. By damping the movement of the needle relative to the needle housing, splattering of the fluid that results from the jerky movements of the needle due to sudden acceleration/deceleration of the needle relative to the housing are absorbed and/or suppressed.

Abstract: A safety needle assembly includes a hub having a proximal end for connection to a syringe and a distal end, a cannula provided with a lumen and having a proximal end connected to the distal end of the hub and a beveled distal end, and a collar formed separately from the hub and mounted on the hub in a rotationally fixed manner, with the collar including a sheath mounting portion. A removable protector is positioned over the cannula and covers the beveled distal end of the cannula. A sheath having an opening is pivotally connected to the sheath mounting portion of the collar and is positioned outside the protector when the protector is positioned over the cannula. The sheath is pivotally connected to the sheath mounting portion of the collar to be pivoted, after removal of the protector to expose the cannula, towards the cannula so that the cannula passes through the opening in the sheath and is covered by the sheath.

Abstract: A protection device for medical needles connected to a portion of tube comprises: a protection casing (20) arranged to enclose and cover the needle after use, it being initially applied in a position to the rear of the point (11) of the needle; a front end (25) facing the point of the needle, to be rested against a foreign body (D3) for reaction in extracting the needle from the patient's body; means (30) for securing the device to the tube (15); and thrust means (21, 22) which when operated by the operator's finger (D1, D2) increase the distance between the securing means (30) and said front end (25) in order to cause the needle (10) to move towards the protection casing (20) until it lies inside the interior of this latter (20).

Abstract: This invention relates to a protection device for a syringe needle comprising an elastic needle cap of general longitudinal direction presenting a closed distal end and an open proximal end, said cap being formed by a lateral wall defining an inner housing intended to receive the distal part of the body of a needle syringe, and by an end wall capable of being pierced through a part of its thickness by the free end of said needle. The housing comprises, from said proximal end, an opening, a first portion, a second portion intended to house the distal part of the syringe body which bears said needle, and a third portion which narrows from said second portion in the direction of the back of said housing. The lateral wall is further provided with an annular bead disposed in said housing between said first and second portions of said housing.

Abstract: A system for converting an off-the-shelf syringe into a safety syringe for preventing accidental needle stick or infection. The preferred embodiment of the present invention is configured to mount to an off-the-shelf syringe via threaded, snap, permanent, or other engagement to the cannula hub of the syringe, wherein the device may include the needle for mounting to the syringe, or via barrel rings configured to mount about the barrel of the syringe. The device is configured to convert the syringe into a safety syringe including a protective cover in longitudinal communication with the syringe needle, the protective cover configured to longitudinally envelope the base of the needle in a storage position, and engage and cap the needle tip in a protected configuration after the instrument has been utilized.

Abstract: The invention relates to a needle guard assembly for the needle part of a syringe body in the form of a needle guard that covers the needle and which is displaceable on the syringe body in the longitudinal direction, and with a grip plate being integrally formed on that end of the syringe body remote from the needle. The needle guard assembly includes a syringe body ending with a needle. A piston rod in the syringe body has a receiving part and a push-in part that telescopes into the receiving part. A syringe-body grip plate is integrally formed on the syringe body. The syringe-body grip plate opposes the needle. A needle guard is arranged longitudinally along the syringe body and covers the needle when the needle guard is displaced longitudinally.

Abstract: The present invention is a safety shield assembly having a shield and a collar for connecting the shield to a fluid handling device whereby the shield may be pivoted with respect to the collar. Preferably, the safety shield assembly may be used with a needle assembly, an intravenous infusion set a syringe, a catheter or other fluid handling devices or assemblies that contain piercing elements. The shield includes a cannula channel with a finger lock for preventing re-exposure of the used needle.

Abstract: A shieldable unit dose needle assembly including a needle holding member, a unit dose needle, a shield in pivotal engagement with respect to the needle, and a collar providing pivotal engagement between the needle and the shield. The shield is pivotally movable between a retracted position and a shielded position in which a portion of the shield encompasses the unit dose needle for safety purposes. The needle holding member includes a distal end having a male tapering surface. The collar further includes a proximal end having a female tapering surface in engagement with the male tapering surface of the needle holding member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a protector and an indwelling needle assembly which are capable of accommodating a needle tip of a used needle body by a simple operation to ensure a high level of safety during needle disposal or the like.

Abstract: A safety shield apparatus is disclosed which includes a needle having a distal portion defining a longitudinal axis which is angularly displaced relative to a longitudinal axis defined by a proximal portion of the needle. A shield is mounted with the needle and extensible, via a tubular needle guide movable along the needle, between a retracted position and an extended position. The apparatus may include a needle hub configured to support the proximal portion of the needle. The needle hub can include an appendage which may have at least one opening to facilitate manipulation thereof. A distal end of the shield can be attached to a planar contact surface. The shield may also include a latch engageable with the needle.