US 11,904,153 B2
Medicament delivery device with use indicator
Stephan Riedel, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Steffen Raab, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Kerstine Hemmann, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Michael Caspers, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Katja Hoerhold, Frankfurt am Main (DE); and Daniel Kerkow, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Filed by Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/000,486.
Application 17/000,486 is a continuation of application No. 16/164,774, filed on Oct. 18, 2018, granted, now 10,773,033.
Application 16/164,774 is a continuation of application No. 14/435,564, granted, now 10,173,017, issued on Jan. 8, 2019, previously published as PCT/EP2013/070582, filed on Oct. 2, 2013.
Claims priority of application No. 12188585 (EP), filed on Oct. 15, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2020/0384213 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A61M 5/50 (2006.01); A61M 5/32 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/5086 (2013.01) [A61M 5/3202 (2013.01); A61M 2005/3267 (2013.01); A61M 2205/583 (2013.01); A61M 2205/584 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medicament delivery device comprising:
a case having a distal end and a closed proximal end;
a container disposed within the case between the distal end of the case and the closed proximal end of the case, the container comprising a needle and a plunger, wherein the container is adapted to store medicament to be delivered to a patient as the plunger expels the medicament through the needle, wherein at least a portion of the needle extends distally beyond the case;
a needle sleeve coupled to the case adjacent to the needle of the container, the needle sleeve being movable between a plurality of positions, wherein the plurality of positions comprise an extended position in which the needle is covered by the needle sleeve and a retracted position in which the needle extends distally from the needle sleeve; and
one or more indicia disposed on the needle sleeve, the one or more indicia being exposed distal to the case in the extended position and being indicative of a position of the needle sleeve relative to the case.