Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1991-06-14
1992-08-25
Yasko, John D.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604218, A61M 500
Patent
active
051414953
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a syringe, and more particularly, but not exclusively, to a hand-operated syringe of the kind which comprises a container, a needle which is adapted to cooperate with one end of the container, a plunger which is adapted to be located inside the container and which is intended to co-act sealingly with the inner surface thereof, and a rod-shaped element, which is arranged to co-act with the plunger for a reciprocating plunger movement in said container. The rod-shaped element is capable of being displaced rectilinearly relative to the container, such that linear movement of said element in a first direction, from said one end, causes the container to be filled with liquid intended for subsequent injection, while linear movement of the element in a second direction causes the liquid to be emptied from the container through the needle during injection.
The present invention is concerned primarily with a disposable-type syringe or a non re-usable disposable hypodermic syringe, by which is meant, a syringe whose container can be filled with injection liquid only.once, i.e. after being once filled it can hardly be filled again and if it is filled the re-filled liquid can not be pressed through the needle for injection by any movement of the rod-shaped element.
BACKGROUND PRIOR ART
Several variants of syringes of this kind are known to the art.
In a first re-usable variant of these known syringes, the mutual co-action of the plunateger and the rod-shaped element is facilitated with the aid of means located between said plunger and said element, this means holding the plunger to the rod-shaped element during linear movement of the element in said first direction and also during linear movement of the element in said second direction. Thus, there is no detachable connection between the plunger and the rod-like element and the plunger will thus be moved backwards and forwards in the container in precise response to the direction of movement of the rod-shaped element.
This means that the container can be filled with liquid each time the plunger is moved away from the needle, and emptied of liquid each time the plunger is moved towards the needle, thereby enabling the syringe to be used over and over again.
The repeated use of one and the same syringe has proven to constitute a serious risk of spreading disease, such as AIDS.
Consequently, single-shot syringes or non re-usable disposable hypodermic syringes have been proposed, which can be used only once for injection purposes, after which the container can no longer be filled with liquid for subsequent injection.
An example of a first variant of such a previously known single-shot syringe is described and illustrated in European Patent Application Ser. No. 0 229 017, in which syringe, the plunger, and a rod-shaped element co-act with one another through the intermediary of hook-shaped members, which are moved out of engagement with the plunger upon movement of the rod-shaped element towards the needle.
The Swedish Patent Specification Publ. No. 413 838 describes and illustrates another variant, a so-called single-shot syringe in which the rod-shaped element incorporates a weakening at a location adjacent the plunger, and in which means are provided for twisting the element relative the plunger subsequent to completing an injection, thereby fracturing the rod-shaped element at the weakened location.
The Swedish Patent Specification Publ. No. 438 598 also teaches a single-shot, or disposable syringe, in which is disclosed in the container a circular groove adapted to cooperate with an outstanding part of the plunger for locking the plunger in its end-position and thus preventing re-filling through the needle.
A similar syringe design is shown in the International Publication W088/02640.
Finally the syringe, of single-shot type, shown and described in the U.S. Pat. No. 4.699,614 belongs to the prior art and has a freely rotatable arm arranged to follow or slip a guide track, causing an attempt to move the plunger once
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