US 12,227,349 B2
System and method for providing and assembling an auto-injector
Adam Standley, Boston, MA (US)
Assigned to Windgap Medical, Inc., Watertown, MA (US)
Appl. No. 16/762,034
Filed by Windgap Medical, Inc., Watertown, MA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 8, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/059755
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 6, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/094547, PCT Pub. Date May 16, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/582,969, filed on Nov. 8, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0338258 A1, Oct. 29, 2020
Int. Cl. A61M 5/00 (2006.01); B65D 25/10 (2006.01); B65D 77/20 (2006.01); A61M 5/20 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 77/2024 (2013.01) [A61M 5/002 (2013.01); B65D 25/108 (2013.01); A61M 5/20 (2013.01); A61M 2207/00 (2013.01); A61M 2207/10 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49826 (2015.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A component storage and nest system, the system comprising:
a tub having a lip portion provided on an interior surface of the tub;
a primary nest having a plurality of receptacles extending from an upper surface thereof, the upper surface of the primary nest having a flange portion about a perimeter thereof being configured to engage the tub about the lip portion;
a plurality of medical components, a medical component being provided in each of the plurality of receptacles of the primary nest; and
a retainer nest having a plurality of pedestals extending from an upper surface thereof, the upper surface of the retainer nest having a flange portion about a perimeter thereof being configured to stack upon the flange portion of the nest retainer, each of the pedestals having an aperture formed in a base portion of the pedestals to allow a portion of each medical component to pass therethrough and where each pedestal is shaped to fit within the receptacles of the primary nest such that sidewalls of the pedestals abut sidewalls of the receptacles of the primary nest, and whereupon inserting the retainer nest into the primary nest causes the plurality of medical components to be held into place therebetween.