US 12,383,667 B2
Holding device having a total height Rt of a roughness profile
Christian Komann, Speicher (CH); and Ulrich Walcher, St. Gallen (CH)
Assigned to SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AG, St. Gallen (CH)
Filed by SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AG, St. Gallen (CH)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/098,855.
Claims priority of application No. 22154057 (EP), filed on Jan. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0302217 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61M 5/00 (2006.01); A61J 1/16 (2023.01); B65D 25/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/008 (2013.01) [A61J 1/16 (2013.01); B65D 25/108 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A holding device for holding a plurality of primary packaging containers for pharmaceutical, medical, or cosmetic compositions, the holding device comprising:
a plate-shaped carrier element which includes a plurality of through-holes;
a plurality of receptacles, each of which is configured for accommodating a respective one of the plurality of primary packaging containers, each of the plurality of receptacles including a longitudinal direction and a receptacle wall which partially encloses a receptacle interior and forms a wall body, the wall body extending in the longitudinal direction through a respective one of the plurality of through-holes and, for each of the plurality of receptacles, having an interior surface which faces the receptacle interior and an exterior surface which faces opposite to the interior surface, at least 50% of respective ones of the plurality of receptacles having a maximum total height Rt of a roughness profile of the interior surface which is not more than 0.50 mm, each of the plurality of receptacles including a first end and a second end, the wall body including a first opening at the first end, a second opening at the second end which, in the longitudinal direction, is opposite to the first end, at least one first edge, and at least one second edge, the first opening of the wall body being laterally directly surrounded by the at least one first edge, the second opening of the wall body being laterally directly surrounded by the at least one second edge.