US 12,280,247 B2
Needle cover removing device and a method for removing the needle cover of an injection device
Bo Yan, Shanghai (CN); and Longxiang Huang, Suzhou (CN)
Assigned to Becton Dickinson France, Le Pont de Claix (FR)
Appl. No. 17/436,412
Filed by Becton Dickinson France, Le Pont de Claix (FR)
PCT Filed Mar. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/055560
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/178285, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19305248 (EP), filed on Mar. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0134020 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 5/32 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/3204 (2013.01) [A61M 2205/106 (2013.01); A61M 2205/14 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49822 (2015.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A removing device configured to remove a needle cover removably mounted on a distal tip of an injection device comprising a barrel, the removing device comprising:
a housing including a holder configured to hold the injection device and a needle cover remover configured to remove the needle cover from the injection device;
a first abutment member provided on the holder, and being configured to abut against said injection device;
a second abutment member provided on the needle cover remover, and being configured to abut against the needle cover; and
displacement means configured to displace the needle cover remover relative to the holder in a translational direction so that the first and second abutment members translationally move away from each other in order to separate the needle cover from the injection device,
wherein the first and second abutment members have a notch configured to receive a portion of the injection device, said notches being opened at their top end with regard to a vertical direction orthogonal to the translational direction to allow a user to put the injection device down onto the holder and the needle cover remover, wherein the first abutment member is configured to abut against a distal shoulder of the barrel of said injection device, the first and second abutment members contacting each other in an initial position of the needle cover remover relative to the holder.