Septum Pierced By Conduit Patents (Class 604/86)
  • Patent number: 11850393
    Abstract: A valve for sealing the hub of a sheath assembly is provided. The valve includes a valve body having a solid thickness extending between a proximal surface and a distal surface. A bisecting slot extends across the proximal surface of the valve body and terminates at a depth less than the thickness of the valve body such that a portion of the valve body distally of the slot defines a bridge extending between opposed halves of the valve body such that the distal surface of the valve body is substantially continuous and a central portion of the proximal surface of the valve body is concave and defines a concave proximal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MEDICAL COMPONENTS INC.
    Inventors: John Stephens, Kevin E. Sanford, Jeffrey S. Bennett, Burton W. Thomas, W. Shaun Wall, Christian K. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11801367
    Abstract: A vascular access device may be an integrated catheter. The vascular access device includes a catheter and catheter adapter having a catheter hub and side port. The contact angle of a probe is greater than 90 degrees. The entrance angle of a probe entering the catheter hub from the side port may be less than 45 degrees. The vascular access device may include a component configured to direct the path of a probe towards the catheter opening. The component may be a protrusion extending into the lumen of the side port, internal fluid passageway, and/or extension tube, or a septum within the catheter hub. The vascular access device includes an access adapter in fluid communication with the side port and permitting insertion of a probe into the catheter through the side port with or without a separate luer adapter. Methods of using a vascular access device are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Bryan Bihlmaier, Stephen Bornhoft
  • Patent number: 11730457
    Abstract: A sampling interface may comprise an inlet port, an outlet port, and a sampling chamber between the inlet port and the outlet port. The apparatus may also comprise a sampling port and at least one split seal between the sampling port and the sampling chamber. The split seal may comprise a first sealing member and a second sealing member that converge to a sealing line. The apparatus may additionally include at least one fluid collection channel disposed interior to the split seal. A lateral flow strip for sampling fluid removed from a tissue site may comprise an acquisition surface and a migration medium fluidly coupled to the acquisition surface. At least one test medium may be fluidly coupled to the migration medium, and a liquid-impermeable cover may enclose the migration medium and the test medium. The acquisition surface is preferably not enclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Locke, Justin Alexander Long, Timothy Mark Robinson
  • Patent number: 11452857
    Abstract: PIVCs with extension sets can include one or more flow diverting features for maximizing the amount of flushing that occurs within the interior of the catheter adapter. These flow diverting features can therefore minimize the amount of residual blood, medicament, or other fluid that may exist within the catheter adapter after the PIVC has been flushed via the extension set. The flow diverting features may be in the form of structural modifications to the side port of the extension set, separate components that are contained within the side port or catheter adapter, integrated components within the side port or catheter adapter, other features or some combination of any of these features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Beeton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Bryan Fred Bihlmaier, Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Bin Wang
  • Patent number: 11383033
    Abstract: A fluid delivery Y-site is described that is configured to receive and control delivery of two or more fluid flows. Fluid flow is controlled within a chamber by a valve and float. Flow of a primary fluid into the chamber is reduced or halted by the movement of a valve. The valve may occlude a first flow port into the chamber in response fluid flowing from a second flow port into the chamber. A float is moveably disposed within the chamber and configured to engage the valve in response a fluid flow into the chamber from the second flow port. As fluid flow from the second flow port into the chamber is reduced or ceases, the valve and float allow the flow from the primary flow port to once again enter the chamber and exit from an outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventor: George Mansour
  • Patent number: 11305030
    Abstract: A device for disinfecting a portion of a medical implement includes two disinfecting chambers, wherein each disinfecting chamber includes a wall forming a medial and bottom openings, which are in communication with each other, wherein one disinfecting chamber is opposed to the other. Each disinfecting chamber houses a disinfecting member that is exposed through the medial opening to come into communication with a medical implement when the disinfecting chambers are closed. The device further includes a resilient member connected to the two disinfecting chambers, which biases the disinfecting chambers together to a closed position and permits displacement of the disinfecting chambers to an open position, such that the medial opening of one disinfecting chamber communicates with the medial opening of the other disinfecting chamber and the bottom opening of one chamber communicates with the bottom opening of the other chamber when in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: DRMA Group International LLC
    Inventor: Zoran Drmanovic
  • Patent number: 10926078
    Abstract: A Y-connector for medical lines, includes a tubular body provided with a first inlet coaxial to the tubular body and containing a valve device formed by an elastic element, and a second inlet arranged obliquely to the tubular body and communicating therewith between the first inlet and the outlet. The tubular body is formed with an inner septum for deviating a flow coming from the second inlet towards the hollow elastic element prior to directing the flow to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: INDUSTRIE BORLA S.P.A
    Inventor: Gianni Guala
  • Patent number: 10576215
    Abstract: A pre-filled syringe includes: a cylindrical container, a front end-side gasket; a rear end-side gasket; an intermediate gasket partitioning an inside of the cylindrical container into a front chamber and a rear chamber; a plunger; a medical drug contained in the front chamber, and a liquid drug contained in the rear chamber. In a state where the plunger is pushed in, a bypass portion included in the cylindrical container faces a groove portion provided in the intermediate gasket, thereby allowing communication between the front chamber and the rear chamber therethrough, so that the medical drug and the liquid drug are mixed, and a liquid mixture is discharged. The pre-filled syringe further includes a movement limiting mechanism for limiting movement of the plunger such that a tail end of the rear end-side gasket does not reach the bypass portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Hasegawa, Minoru Honda
  • Patent number: 10426929
    Abstract: A vascular access device may be an integrated catheter. The vascular access device includes a catheter and catheter adapter having a catheter hub and side port. The contact angle of a probe is greater than 90 degrees. The entrance angle of a probe entering the catheter hub from the side port may be less than 45 degrees. The vascular access device may include a component configured to direct the path of a probe towards the catheter opening. The component may be a protrusion extending into the lumen of the side port, internal fluid passageway, and/or extension tube, or a septum within the catheter hub. The vascular access device includes an access adapter in fluid communication with the side port and permitting insertion of a probe into the catheter through the side port with or without a separate luer adapter. Methods of using a vascular access device are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Bryan Bihlmaier, Stephen Bornhoft
  • Patent number: 10335544
    Abstract: A fluid delivery Y-site is described that is configured to receive and control delivery of two or more fluid flows. Fluid flow is controlled within a chamber by a valve and float. Flow of a primary fluid into the chamber is reduced or halted by the movement of a valve. The valve may occlude a first flow port into the chamber in response fluid flowing from a second flow port into the chamber. A float is moveably disposed within the chamber and configured to engage the valve in response a fluid flow into the chamber from the second flow port. As fluid flow from the second flow port into the chamber is reduced or ceases, the valve and float allow the flow from the primary flow port to once again enter the chamber and exit from an outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventor: George Mansour
  • Patent number: 10034982
    Abstract: A spindle for driving a bung of a cartridge. The spindle includes a generally circular shaft having an outer surface. The generally circular shaft extends from a distal end to a proximal end of said circular shaft. A first helical groove is provided along a first portion of the outer surface. The first helical groove having a first pitch. A second helical groove provided along a second portion of the outer surface of the generally circular shaft. The second helical groove overlapping the first helical groove. The second helical groove having a second pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventor: David Aubrey Plumptre
  • Patent number: 9775777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a barrier membrane arrangement (10, 110) for a medical device for providing a substantially liquid tight seal between a piercing member and a barrier member (12) and a method for manufacturing such a barrier member arrangement. The present invention also relates to a method for connecting a first and a second medical device at the barrier member arrangement (10, 110). The barrier member arrangement (10, 110) comprises a first member (11), a second member (13) and a barrier member (12). The second member (13) can be interlocked to the first member (11) by means of a connection arrangement (18) at an optional stage by a user. After interlocking the second member (13) to the first member (11), the barrier member (12) has been compressed to provide for an increased leakage security. The barrier member arrangement (10, 110) also provides for a prolonged working life of the barrier member (12) and any medical device which comprises such a barrier member arrangement (10, 110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Carmel Pharma AB
    Inventors: Gunnar Ohlin, Fredrik Bäckström
  • Patent number: 9259554
    Abstract: A system and method for providing vent channel geometries to compensate for compression forces experienced by a septum within an intravascular device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Yiping Ma, Marty L. Stout
  • Patent number: 9089648
    Abstract: A medicated module (4) for an injection system to co-deliver at least two medicaments (1, 2) is disclosed where a primary delivery device (7) contains a first drug agent and accepts a medicated module (4) containing a single dose of a secondary premix medicament (2) containing the first drug agent and at least a second drug agent, where both the primary medicament (1) and the secondary premix medicament (2) are delivered through a single hollow needle (3, 16, 21, 31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Michael James David Heald, Christopher James Smith
  • Patent number: 9089649
    Abstract: A medicated module (4) for an injection system to co-deliver at least two medicaments (1, 2) is disclosed where a primary delivery device (7) containing a primary medicament (1) accepts a medicated module (4) containing a single dose of a secondary medicament (2) and where both medicaments (1, 2) are delivered through a single hollow needle (3, 16, 21, 31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Detuschland GmbH
    Inventors: James Alexander Davies, Steven Wimpenny, Daniel Thomas De Sausmarez Lintell, Malcolm Stanley Boyd, Naceur Rekaya, Simon Lewis Bilton, John David Cross, David Moore, Graham Jay, Ross Douglas MacArthur, Michael James David Heald, Christopher James Smith
  • Patent number: 8974407
    Abstract: A syringe for dispensing anesthetic from a cartridge having an interior wall defining a hollow interior sized and shaped for receiving a dose of anesthetic, and a piston. The syringe includes a tubular plunger slidably received in the hollow interior of the tubular cartridge. The plunger has a hollow interior extending between a distal end shaped for engaging the piston and an open proximal end. The syringe includes a plunger rod slidably received in the hollow interior of the tubular plunger. The rod has a sharp distal end adapted to penetrate the piston, a proximal end, and a length extending between the distal end and the proximal end sized so a delivery portion of the rod extends through the piston into the cartridge when the rod is driven through the piston. The delivery portion includes a recess for receiving a buffering agent to reduce acidity of the dose of anesthetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Melvin Finke
  • Patent number: 8858485
    Abstract: The connector for a fluid line of an extracorporeal circuit comprises a tubular body which internally defines a fluid passage, a first connection port predisposed for coupling to the fluid line, a second connection port predisposed for coupling to a male Luer connector borne by an external element, and a closure element of the second connection port. The closure element is formed of a breakable membrane made in a single piece with the tubular body. On coupling, the membrane is broken by the truncoconical projection of the male Luer connector. The connector connects a service line of an extracorporeal circuit to a pressure sensor of a dialysis machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Gambro Lundia AB
    Inventors: Roberto Neri, Andrea Paltrinieri
  • Patent number: 8753317
    Abstract: A medical instrument includes a housing with a passage through which a catheter is received. A valve body is mounted in the passage, and, as the catheter penetrates through the valve body, the valve body conforms to the outer wall of the catheter to maintain a fluid tight seal between the valve body and the catheter. When the valve body is unstressed before being mounted in the passage, the valve body has a first planar dimension and a second planar dimension that is less than the first planar dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Osborne, Ram H. Paul
  • Patent number: 8679073
    Abstract: A repeater system may control a pump by using a repeater and a user interface. An adhesive patch system may be used for affixing a pump or other object to a human body. Such an adhesive patch system may include two sets of adhesive members, each member including an adhesive material on at least one side so as to attach to the body. The members of the first set are spaced to allow the members of the second set to attach to the body in spaces provided between the members of the first set, and the members of the second set are spaced to allow members of the first set to detach from the body without detaching the members of the second set. Also, fill stations and base stations are provided for personal pump systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventor: Larry B. Gray
  • Patent number: 8672878
    Abstract: A syringe for dispensing anesthetic from a cartridge having an interior wall defining a hollow interior sized and shaped for receiving a dose of anesthetic, and a piston. The syringe includes a tubular plunger slidably received in the hollow interior of the tubular cartridge. The plunger has a hollow interior extending between a distal end shaped for engaging the piston and an open proximal end. The syringe includes a plunger rod slidably received in the hollow interior of the tubular plunger. The rod has a sharp distal end adapted to penetrate the piston, a proximal end, and a length extending between the distal end and the proximal end sized so a delivery portion of the rod extends through the piston into the cartridge when the rod is driven through the piston. The delivery portion includes a recess for receiving a buffering agent to reduce acidity of the dose of anesthetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Melvin A. Finke
  • Patent number: 8657481
    Abstract: A syringe-to-syringe mixing apparatus comprises first and second syringes adapted to be coupled at their respective outlets to fluidly connect the syringes. The first syringe includes a plunger having a hollow plunger barrel and a distal end defining a lumen therethrough. The lumen is initially closed by a septum, which in one embodiment is an elastomeric stopper mounted over the end of the plunger. The mixing apparatus further includes a third syringe slidably disposed within the plunger barrel. The third syringe includes a hollow needle adapted to pierce the septum to allow fluid from the third syringe to be injected into fluid within the coupled first and second syringes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Spine Wave, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Collins
  • Patent number: 8597237
    Abstract: An attachment arrangement has a housing and a needle located within the housing. The arrangement allows administration ports of different sizes to be inserted into and secured within the housing. In certain embodiments, compliant retainers secure the administration port within the housing. In certain other embodiments, the administration port is secured within the housing when the housing is compressed against the administration port by a housing compression element. Once the administration port is secured within the housing, a fluid-tight seal is formed between the attachment device and the administration port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Carefusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: D. Gregory Yow, John C. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20130237904
    Abstract: Inline liquid drug medical devices for use with a source of physiological fluid and a medicinal vessel for liquid drug reconstitution and administration purposes. The inline liquid drug medical devices include a housing having a longitudinal device axis, a rotary flow control member and a vial adapter for transposing the flow control member from an initial first flow control position for liquid drug reconstitution purposes to a second flow control position for liquid drug administration purposes. The inline liquid drug medical devices include a syringe port and a drug dispensing port co-axial with the device axis. The rotary flow control member is rotatable about an axis of rotation co-axial with the syringe port and the drug dispensing port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: MEDIMOP MEDICAL PROJECTS LTD.
    Inventors: Igor Deneburg, Nimrod Lev, Moshe Gilboa
  • Patent number: 8506549
    Abstract: A multipurpose connector made in two pieces and having three distal connectors and two proximal connectors arranged concentrically in one another and coaxially to one another and made differently and having a venting passage. The multipurpose connector is used in gravity-assisted and pump-assisted enteral feeding and serves for the connection of transfer systems to storage containers, in particular to nutrient and balancing liquid containers having differently designed openings. Also provided is a set for enteral application including a transfer system and the multipurpose connector and the use of the multipurpose connector or of the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Barbara Breuer-Thal, Marcel Oster
  • Patent number: 8500681
    Abstract: The invention in general relates to various injection systems and devices that can be used, for example, in needleless injection systems for human, and for domestic and farm animals. In certain embodiments, the invention provides an injection system comprising: an injector defining a first cavity in fluid communication with an orifice configured for needleless injection; a housing defining a second cavity, the housing different than the injector; a first movable member between the first cavity and the second cavity, wherein the first movable member is configured to transfer a fluid from the second cavity to the first cavity; and wherein the first movable member is configured to be substantially stationary until the first movable member is moved by a propellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Valeritas, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert R. Gonnelli, David Lipson, Vasu Nishtala, Ciro Dimeglio
  • Patent number: 8475404
    Abstract: A device for mixing and transferring is described. The device comprises a housing having open ends, a container accessing member having at least one fluid conduit therethrough, the container accessing member extending generally outwardly from one end of the housing. The device comprises a fluid delivery device accessing member having at least one fluid conduit therethrough, the fluid delivery device accessing member extending generally outwardly from the other end of the housing having the container accessing member, the fluid delivery device accessing member and the container accessing member in fluid communication therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Yukon Medical, LLC
    Inventors: David L. Foshee, Theodore J. Mosler, Bryan J. Peters, Nicholas J. Jardine, Todd M. Korogi
  • Patent number: 8444597
    Abstract: A system and method for a patch-like, self-contained multi-component substance infusion device which provides one or more substantially hidden patient needles which can be placed in fluid communication with a fluid reservoir assembly that includes a rigid bladder portion used in conjunction with a non-distensible bladder film, such as a metallized film. The device can be attached to a skin surface via an adhesive contact and a pressurization system provides a pressure to the contents of a fluid reservoir assembly. Improvements to dry powdered formulations for reconstitution for preferred use in the device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Vincent J. Sullivan, Ge Jiang, Matthew S. Ferriter, Kenneth G. Powell, P. Spencer Kinsey, Carl R. Sahi, John M. Polidoro
  • Patent number: 8425487
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to drug vial spikes, fluid line sets, and related systems. In some aspects, a fluid line set includes a frame, multiple spikes extending from the frame, and multiple fluid lines connected to the frame. The frame is configured to hold the fluid lines in a spaced apart configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Beiriger, Ryan Kaintz
  • Patent number: 8419722
    Abstract: An apparatus for percutaneous delivery of a sealant comprising: at least two fluid reservoirs, an introducer needle having a distal tip that is in fluid communication with at least one reservoir, a fluid delivery tube that is in fluid communication with a second reservoir, wherein the fluid delivery tube has a tip and wherein the fluid delivery tube is configured so that the tip of the fluid delivery tube does not extend past the distal tip of the introducer needle during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Spinal Restoration, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Richards, Brian D. Burkinshaw, Kevin Pauza, James B. Rogan, John Wheeler
  • Patent number: 8403923
    Abstract: A method and kit for treating a disc that is leaking nucleus pulposus through at least one defect in the annulus fibrosus. The method includes injecting a fibrin sealant into the disc to reduce at least a portion of the at least one defect, wherein the fibrin sealant injected into the disc comprises fibrinogen and an activating compound, wherein at least a portion of the fibrin forms after injection, with the proviso that a corticosteroid is absent from the fibrin sealant injected into the disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Spinal Restoration, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven I. Whitlock, Brian D. Burkinshaw, Kevin Pauza
  • Patent number: 8382704
    Abstract: A system for delivering a cell-slurry to a patient may include a fluid, cells that are non-dissolvable or immiscible in the fluid, thereby forming the cell-slurry, a syringe adapted to contain the cell-slurry and a supernate of the cell-slurry, the syringe defining a first end having an outlet through which the cell-slurry is delivered to the patient, a fluidizing system associated with the syringe and adapted to effect dilation of the cell-slurry with a portion of the supernate, to form a dilated cell-slurry, the dilated cell-slurry being transferred from the fluidizing system to the syringe, while maintaining at least a portion of the supernate, the cell-slurry and supernate being transferred from the fluidizing system to the syringe, a pressurizing mechanism adapted to create a pressure to cause the dilated cell-slurry contained within the syringe to flow for delivery to the patient and a control unit in communication with and adapted to control the fluidizing system, the pressurizing mechanism and movemen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Medrad, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur E. Uber, III, David M. Griffiths, David M. Reilly, Alan D. Hirschman, Kevin P. Cowan, Mark Trocki
  • Patent number: 8357147
    Abstract: A method of repairing a defect in an annulus fibrosus of an intervertebral disc, without excising the entire nucleus pulposus of the disc. The method includes inserting an introducer needle through the annulus fibrosus by puncturing the annulus fibrosus with the introducer needle, injecting an in situ curable, bio-compatible polymerizable or polymeric material composition into the disc through the introducer needle directly or indirectly so that the in situ curable composition contacts a defect in the annulus fibrosus; and curing said material in situ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Spinal Restoration, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian D. Burkinshaw, John L. Wheeler, James B. Rogan, Steven I. Whitlock
  • Patent number: 8323237
    Abstract: A drug mixing and expelling device (1) for mixing a drug with a liquid, thereby forming a reconstituted liquid drug. The device comprises a reservoir (2) containing a liquid, a vial (4) containing a drug, a vial, means (5) for establishing a fluid connection between the reservoir and a vial positioned in the vial adapter (3), means (7, 8) for forcing the liquid from the reservoir to a vial, and means (9) for activating said forcing means during establishment of the fluid connection between the reservoir and the vial. The forcing of liquid into the vial provides a pressure therein, which can be used for infusion of the reconstituted drug directly from the vial. The device also comprises a suction unit (13) for aspiration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk HealthCare AG
    Inventors: Bo Radmer, Morten Revsgaard Frederiksen
  • Patent number: 8317743
    Abstract: A method for mixing and injection and an apparatus for performing the method includes the use of a needle and a needle base, a syringe attachment element and a mixing chamber engagement assembly including a needle chamber surrounding the needle and a first liquid conduit portion, sealed from the needle chamber. A mixing chamber engagement portion includes a second liquid conduit portion communicating with the first liquid conduit portion and a mixing chamber. When the syringe attachment element and the needle base are in a first relative engagement orientation liquid can flow between an interior of the syringe and the first liquid conduit portion and upon axially displacing the needle base and syringe attachment element to a second relative engagement orientation, liquid can flow between an interior of the syringe and the needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Medimop Medical Projects Ltd.
    Inventor: Igor Denenburg
  • Patent number: 8303545
    Abstract: Fluid delivery device includes a body, a cannula adapted to extend into subcutaneous tissue, and a septum member adapted to allow a needle to puncture the septum member and to reseal the puncture once the needle is withdrawn from the puncture. The septum member is at least one of; a cap-shaped member, a member having at least two non-parallel walls that can each be punctured by a needle, and a member having a generally planar wall and a generally cylindrical wall which can each be punctured by a needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Stat Medical Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Schraga
  • Patent number: 8252228
    Abstract: A kit is described including at least one container including a predetermined quantity of sterilized biodegradable carriers in a powder form having a treatment agent disposed therein. The kit further includes a delivery device for delivering the predetermined quantity of sterilized biodegradable carriers with the treatment agent disposed therein to a treatment site. In other embodiments, methods are described for producing the sterilized treatment agent loaded biodegradable carriers and delivering the sterilized carriers to a treatment site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Abigail Freeman, Thierry Glauser, Paul M. Consigny
  • Patent number: 8122923
    Abstract: A drug mixing system including at least one receptacle port adaptor adapted to be inserted into a port of a fluid receptacle, at least one syringe adaptor adapted to be attached to a syringe and to the at least one receptacle port adaptor and at least one vial adaptor adapted for connection to a vial containing a drug and adapted for connection to the at least one syringe adaptor, the system being characterized in that at least one of the receptacle port adaptor, the at least one syringe adaptor and the at least one vial adaptor being vented to the atmosphere in a manner which prevents release to the atmosphere of possibly harmful contents of the vial in a liquid, solid or gaseous form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Teva Medical Ltd.
    Inventors: Menachem Kraus, Eli Shemesh
  • Patent number: 8088118
    Abstract: A system and method for transferring a fluid from a first container to a second container, the system comprising a first container (112) having a fluid (126) therein, the first container being sealed by a septum (124) and a piston (122), the second container being sealed at its mouth by a pierceable septum (132) and having a plunger (130) at the opposite end, a moveable needle shuttle (116) having first (144) and second (146) piercing ends, the arrangement being such that upon advancement of the first container with respect to the second container, a second one of the piercing ends (144) is adapted to pierce plunger (130) of the second container and a first piercing end (146) being designed to pierce the septum (124) of the first container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Duoject Medical Systems Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Reynolds, Daniel MacDonald, Julie Trepanier, Steven Raymond, Caroline Lavoie
  • Patent number: 7980243
    Abstract: A cartridge for propellant-free administration of a liquid pharmaceutical composition by inhalation includes: an elongate displacing device including an upper end and a lower end, the lower end for at least partial insertion into a container; a cartridge chamber disposed at the lower end of the displacing device and operable store a pharmaceutical formulation, the cartridge chamber including at least one pierceably sealed opening; and a cannula guide extending from the upper end of the displacing device to the cartridge chamber, wherein insertion of a cannula through the guide pierces the sealed opening and releases the pharmaceutical formulation into a liquid solvent in the container to form the liquid pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Dieter Hochrainer
  • Patent number: 7981076
    Abstract: A system and method for a patch-like, self-contained multi-component substance infusion device which provides one or more substantially hidden patient needles which can be placed in fluid communication with a fluid reservoir assembly that includes a rigid bladder portion used in conjunction with a non-distensible bladder film, such as a metallized film. The device can be attached to a skin surface via an adhesive contact and a pressurization system provides a pressure to the contents of a fluid reservoir assembly. Improvements to dry powdered formulations for reconstitution for preferred use in the device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Vincent J. Sullivan, Ge Jiang, Matthew S. Ferriter, Kenneth G. Powell, P. Spencer Kinsey, Carl R. Sahi, John M. Polidoro
  • Patent number: 7931614
    Abstract: The invention in general relates to various injection systems and devices that can be used, for example, in needleless injection systems for human, and for domestic and farm animals. In certain embodiments, the invention provides an injection system comprising: an injector defining a first cavity in fluid communication with an orifice configured for needleless injection; a housing defining a second cavity, the housing different than the injector; a first movable member between the first cavity and the second cavity, wherein the first movable member is configured to transfer a fluid from the second cavity to the first cavity; and wherein the first movable member is configured to be substantially stationary until the first movable member is moved by a propellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Valeritas, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert R. Gonnelli, David Lipson, Vasu Nishtala, Ciro Dimeglio
  • Patent number: 7828764
    Abstract: A system includes a durable portion with a durable housing and a separable disposable portion with a disposable housing that selectively engage with and disengage from each other. The disposable housing secures to a patient and may be disposed of after it has been in use for a prescribed period. Components that normally come into contact with a patient or with an infusion medium may be part of the disposable portion to allow for disposal after a prescribed use. A reservoir for holding the infusion medium may be part of the disposable portion, and may be supported by the disposable housing. The durable portion may include other components such as electronics for controlling delivery of the infusion medium from the reservoir, and a drive device including a motor and drive linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon B. Moberg, Ian B. Hanson, R. Paul Mounce, Paul F. Bente, IV, Julian D. Kavazov
  • Patent number: 7811262
    Abstract: A system includes a durable portion with a durable housing and a separable disposable portion with a disposable housing that selectively engage with and disengage from each other. The disposable housing secures to a patient and may be disposed of after it has been in use for a prescribed period. Components that normally come into contact with a patient or with an infusion medium may be part of the disposable portion to allow for disposal after a prescribed use. A reservoir for holding the infusion medium may be part of the disposable portion, and may be supported by the disposable housing. The durable portion may include other components such as electronics for controlling delivery of the infusion medium from the reservoir, and a drive device including a motor and drive linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheldon B. Moberg, Ian B. Hanson, Paul F. Bente, IV
  • Patent number: 7793655
    Abstract: A cartridge for propellant-free administration of a liquid pharmaceutical composition by inhalation includes: an elongate displacing device including an upper end and a lower end, the lower end for at least partial insertion into a container; a cartridge chamber disposed at the lower end of the displacing device and operable store a pharmaceutical formulation, the cartridge chamber including at least one pierceably sealed opening; and a cannula guide extending from the upper end of the displacing device to the cartridge chamber, wherein insertion of a cannula through the guide pierces the sealed opening and releases the pharmaceutical formulation into a liquid solvent in the container to form the liquid pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Hochrainer
  • Patent number: 7789852
    Abstract: To provide a medical liquid container which is free from sealing failure in the seal portion at the peripheral edge of the liquid medicament-housing chamber and also free from deterioration of a medicament housed in a small amount; and a preparation-containing medical liquid container. A secondary liquid medicament-housing chamber 12 is connected to one end of a primary liquid medicament-housing chamber 11. This secondary liquid medicament-housing chamber 12 is unseparably fixed to the primary liquid medicament-housing chamber 11 at a connection part 14. The secondary liquid medicament-housing chamber 12 has a bulge part 15 bulged such that the internal medicament-housing space before housing a second medicament is larger than the volume of the housed second medicament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Yoshikawa, Manabu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7726362
    Abstract: A system, device, and method for mixing a substance with a liquid pumps the liquid into a container of the substance to produce a solution. The container may be part of a container assembly including a port assembly for coupling with the container to produce an inlet and/or and outlet port for the container. The container assembly may be received within a receiving chamber for causing the coupling. The solution may be permitted to flow out of the outlet port when the solution rises within the container to a level of the outlet port so that the substance is partially diluted before flowing out of the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Jason A. Demers, James D. Dale, Brian Tracey, David W. McGill, Larry B. Gray
  • Patent number: 7722563
    Abstract: A medical device may include an extravascular system, a vascular access device attached to the system, and at least one access port attached to the device capable of displacing stagnant fluid within the extravascular system. A method for eliminating stagnant fluid within an extravascular system may include providing an extravascular system, providing a vascular access device having an access port, attaching the device to the system via the access port, accessing the access port with a separate vascular access device, and displacing stagnant fluid within the extravascular system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: S. Ray Isaacson, Bryan G. Davis, Dinesh S. Kommireddy
  • Publication number: 20100125242
    Abstract: An emergency dose medication administration device suitable for administration of an effervescent therapeutic composition, such as a soluble aspirin product that when mixed with water or other aqueous medium forms an effervescent composition for administration to a patient. The administration device of the invention includes separate compartments separated from one another by a barrier member, in which at least one of the compartments includes a bellowed portion which is expansible upon intermixing of materials from the respective compartments of the device, when the barrier member is pierced by a manually actuatable piercing element that includes a passage for administration of the effervescent reaction product to a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: PharmStar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Howard PHYKITT
  • Patent number: 7713250
    Abstract: A needleless luer access connector is disclosed having a septum disposed in a housing. The septum has a proximal portion with a cross section, a medial portion with a cross section smaller than the cross section of the proximal portion, and a distal portion. A longitudinal slit extends through the septum from the proximal portion to the distal portion. The septum and housing are designed so that septum will not be rotated or removed from the housing when the connector is accessed by a male luer taper. In addition, the septum and housing are designed to bias the slit at the distal portion closed and so a male luer connector does not have to extend completely through the distal portion to open the slit at the distal portion. Finally, the septum and housing are designed to minimize the amount of dead space in the connector when accessed with a male luer taper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Weston F. Harding, Carolyn E. Brown, Kelly D. Christensen, Tom M. Miner, Ralph L. Sonderegger
  • Patent number: 7669995
    Abstract: A sealing component includes an elastomeric material. An exterior side surface of the elastomeric material is to define at least a first seal with a first external mating member into which the sealing component is insertable. An interior surface of the elastomeric material is to define a second seal and a third seal with a second external mating member insertable into the sealing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Holli C. Ogle, John L. Taylor, Marc A. Baldwin