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US5364369A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Syringe

Assignee: Duoject Medical Systems Inc
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Filing: 1991-11-14
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Granted: 1994-11-15
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Expires: 2011-11-14
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Abstract

Abstract A prefilled syringe for one or two component medicaments is based upon the use of a vial containing a medicament or one component of a medicament, the vial having an open bottom closed by a piston. When a flexible extension of the piston is coupled with a tubular plunger, and an adaptor cap having an internal needle and an external connection for a needle is placed over a cap of the vial, the latter is converted into a prefilled syringe. The piston may have an axial passage closed by a resealable septum, so that a separate diluent stored in a flexible capsule may be introduced into the vial through the piston by a double ended needle mounted on a further cap applied to the capsule, the further cap being coupled within the tubular interior of the plunger so that the double ended needle penetrates the septum in the piston. The capsule is pushed forward onto the double ended needle when its contents are to be expelled into the vial. The capsule and its cap are then removed and discarded. In an alternative arrangement, the cap of the capsule is coupled to the adaptor cap and the diluent introduced into the vial through a closure secured by the cap of the vial, after which the capsule is removed from the plunger and the latter is coupled to the piston. In further embodiments, the capsule is replaced by a shell vial. The open bottom of the vial is formed with a strengthening bead designed not to interfere with handling of the vials by conventional vial sterilizing, filling and capping machinery.

Inventors

  • 👤 David L. Reynolds

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-10-31 23:55
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61J; A61J1/00; A61J1/14; A61J1/20; A61J1/2096; A61J1/2089; A61M; A61M5/00; A61M5/178; A61M5/28; A61M5/284; A61J1/05; A61J1/10; A61J1/1475; A61J1/2003; A61J1/2006; A61J1/201; A61J1/2013; A61J1/202; A61J1/2044; A61J1/2068; A61J1/2075; A61M5/31; A61M5/3129; A61M5/3137; A61M2005/3139; A61M5/14; A61M5/142; A61M5/145; A61M5/1452

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim 256 words
In a method of packaging a pharmaceutical in a pharmaceutical vial formed of rigid transparent material with a cylindrical body and a comparatively wide open neck at the top of the body, which method comprises conveying uncapped vials, empty of pharmaceutical, in a free-standing upright position through vial filling and capping machinery which fills the pharmaceutical into the body through the open neck, applies an elastomeric closure to the open neck, and applies a cap overlaying the closure to secure the closure to the neck to produce filled and capped vials, the improvement in which, in order to permit subsequent administration via injection direct from the vial, a cylindrical side wall of each uncapped empty vial is formed so as to define a bottom opening at the base of the vial with a bead adjacent to the bottom opening, the outer wall of the vial being free of any external projection of the bead relative thereto sufficient to cause substantial instability of the vial when conveyed upright and free-standing adjacent to other similar vials during filling and capping, and a cylindrical substantially solid piston of resilient material is slidably lodged prior to filling of the vial wholely within the cylindrical side wall above said bottom opening so as to form a hermetic seal with the side wall, so that an internal and axial extension from the piston, of lesser diameter than the piston and adapted for subsequent coupling to a syringe plunger, is oriented so as to extend downwardly within the vial towards the bottom opening.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 256 words
In a method of packaging a pharmaceutical in a pharmaceutical vial formed of rigid transparent material with a cylindrical body and a comparatively wide open neck at the top of the body, which method comprises conveying uncapped vials, empty of pharmaceutical, in a free-standing upright position through vial filling and capping machinery which fills the pharmaceutical into the body through the open neck, applies an elastomeric closure to the open neck, and applies a cap overlaying the closure to secure the closure to the neck to produce filled and capped vials, the improvement in which, in order to permit subsequent administration via injection direct from the vial, a cylindrical side wall of each uncapped empty vial is formed so as to define a bottom opening at the base of the vial with a bead adjacent to the bottom opening, the outer wall of the vial being free of any external projection of the bead relative thereto sufficient to cause substantial instability of the vial when conveyed upright and free-standing adjacent to other similar vials during filling and capping, and a cylindrical substantially solid piston of resilient material is slidably lodged prior to filling of the vial wholely within the cylindrical side wall above said bottom opening so as to form a hermetic seal with the side wall, so that an internal and axial extension from the piston, of lesser diameter than the piston and adapted for subsequent coupling to a syringe plunger, is oriented so as to extend downwardly within the vial towards the bottom opening.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 54 words
A method according to claim 1, including the further step, following filling and capping, of snap fitting a piston stabilizer ring to the bead so that flanges on the piston stabilizer ring extend into the body between the cylindrical side wall and the piston extension to prevent escape of the piston from the body.

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