US 12,064,606 B2
Data collection apparatus for attachment to an injection device
Christian Rehbein, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Sven Hagebusch, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Chris Knorr, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Maurice Toporek, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Matthias Felber, Frankfurt am Main (DE); and Alexander Heinrich, 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 Dec. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/133,149.
Application 17/133,149 is a continuation of application No. 16/331,656, granted, now 11,547,806, previously published as PCT/EP2017/072618, filed on Sep. 8, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16188182 (EP), filed on Sep. 9, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0113773 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 5/00 (2006.01); A61M 5/20 (2006.01); A61M 5/315 (2006.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); A61M 5/31 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/3155 (2013.01) [A61M 5/20 (2013.01); A61M 5/31585 (2013.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); A61M 2005/3126 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3306 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3313 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3317 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3327 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3561 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01); A61M 2205/502 (2013.01); A61M 2205/52 (2013.01); A61M 2205/587 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data collection device comprising:
an attachment assembly for attaching the data collection device to a dose setting dial of a medicament administration device, the dose setting dial being disposed at a proximal end of the medicament administration device; and
an electronics assembly comprising a non-contact sensor configured to detect rotation of an internal component of the medicament administration device, the internal component configured to rotate when a dose is delivered from the medicament administration device, and wherein the internal component of the medicament administration device comprises one or more magnets or magnetic areas,
wherein the non-contact sensor is a magnetic sensor configured to detect a change in a magnetic field when the internal component is rotated, and wherein the magnetic sensor is configured to be entirely arranged proximally relative to the internal component of the medicament administration device when the data collection device is attached to the medicament administration device by the attachment assembly.