US 12,263,324 B2
Vial supporter for medicament pump
Ryan William Betts, San Diego, CA (US); Maxwell Aaron Hume, San Diego, CA (US); Philip Sven Lamb, San Diego, CA (US); Michael Michaud, San Diego, CA (US); John Charles Nadworny, Poway, CA (US); William T. Trevaskis, San Marcos, CA (US); and Steven Thuan Truong, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/181,808.
Application 17/181,808 is a continuation of application No. 15/705,983, filed on Sep. 15, 2017, granted, now 10,926,025.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/394,806, filed on Sep. 15, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0178054 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61M 5/142 (2006.01); A61J 1/12 (2006.01); A61J 1/14 (2023.01); A61M 5/168 (2006.01); B65B 3/00 (2006.01); F04B 43/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/142 (2013.01) [A61J 1/12 (2013.01); A61J 1/14 (2013.01); A61M 5/168 (2013.01); B65B 3/003 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3331 (2013.01); F04B 43/10 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for supporting a medicament cartridge of an ambulatory infusion pump during a procedure for filling the medicament cartridge with a medicament, comprising:
a monolithic tray body having a cartridge end and a vial end;
a cartridge holder defined adjacent the cartridge end in the tray body, the cartridge holder comprising a cartridge recess in the tray body, the cartridge recess having a bottom surface and a perimeter shape generally matching an outer perimeter of a body of the medicament cartridge configured to be retained in the cartridge holder;
a fitting holder defined in the tray body, the fitting holder comprising a fitting recess in the tray body that is configured to retain an interconnect fitting of the medicament cartridge and having a fitting recess shape generally matching a shape of the interconnect fitting; and
a vial adapter holder defined in the tray body adjacent the fitting holder at the vial end of the tray body, the vial adapter holder comprising a vial adapter recess in the tray body that is configured to retain a portion of a vial adapter configured to attach to the interconnect fitting of the medicament cartridge to facilitate filling of the medicament cartridge with a vial of medicament attached to the vial adapter,
wherein the vial adapter recess is configured to prevent rotation of the vial adapter about a longitudinal axis of the of the vial adapter recess when disposed within the vial adapter recess to prevent the vial adapter from being disconnected from the interconnect fitting.