US 12,357,770 B2
Grasper for a needle sheath, cap, autoinjector and method of producing a grasper
Thomas Mark Kemp, Ashwell Hertfordshire (GB); Louise Hodgson, Stevenage Herts (GB); and George Sykes, Melbourn Herts (GB)
Assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Filed by SANOFI AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Filed on Jun. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/345,720.
Application 17/345,720 is a continuation of application No. 15/579,144, granted, now 11,045,610, previously published as PCT/EP2016/062459, filed on Jun. 2, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 15170595 (EP), filed on Jun. 3, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0338940 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 5/32 (2006.01); A61M 5/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/3204 (2013.01) [A61M 5/2033 (2013.01); A61M 5/3202 (2013.01); A61M 2205/581 (2013.01); A61M 2207/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A grasper for a needle sheath configured to be removably arranged over a needle, wherein the grasper comprises a grasping carrier formed of a sheet of metal and comprising a plurality of groups of barbs projecting from a surface of the grasping carrier,
wherein each group of the plurality of groups of barbs comprises a respective plurality of barbs, and wherein the grasping carrier is such that when the sheet of metal is formed into the grasping carrier, a distance between at least one group of barbs and another group of barbs is reduced.