US 12,420,027 B2
Device for administering a fluid
Frank Altermann, Tuttlingen (DE); Robin Sauter, Tuttlingen (DE); Maikel Wiedmann, Immendingen (DE); Daniel Seeh, Immendingen (DE); and Anika Schmidt, Fridingen (DE)
Assigned to Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH, Tuttlingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/640,051
Filed by Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH, Tuttlingen (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/069450
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/043471, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102019123731.9 (DE), filed on Sep. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0313922 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 5/315 (2006.01); A61M 5/30 (2006.01); A61M 5/31 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/31576 (2013.01) [A61M 5/30 (2013.01); A61M 5/3153 (2013.01); A61M 5/31548 (2013.01); A61M 2005/3115 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3365 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3375 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for administering a fluid, comprising:
a cylinder, which has an open dispensing end;
a piston, which is displaceable in the cylinder between a front end position and a rear end position, and is connected to a piston rod which, along a first direction, protrudes from a rear end of the cylinder opposite the open dispensing end;
a nonreturn valve closing the open dispensing end;
a tensioning device connected to the piston rod; and
a control unit,
wherein the tensioning device moves the piston rod along the first direction in a tensioning procedure until the piston is in the rear end position, thereby filling the cylinder with the fluid to be administered and pretensioning the piston rod toward the open dispensing end, and
wherein the tensioning device, when the piston is in the rear end position, releases the piston rod in a dispensing procedure such that, owing to the pretension which is present, the piston is moved counter to the first direction toward the open dispensing end and, in the process, fluid in the cylinder is dispensed via the nonreturn valve for administration,
wherein the tensioning device includes a ramp which is rotatable via a motor, and a ramp track extending along a helical line,
wherein the ramp track ascends from a first plateau along a region of inclination to a second plateau, and descends from the second plateau to the first plateau via a transition flank,
wherein the ramp track has a transfer region connecting the second plateau and the transition flank,
wherein the tensioning device includes a roller which is in contact with the ramp track and which is mounted rotatably in a driver, the driver being connected to the piston rod, and therefore, upon rotation of the ramp along a first rotation direction, the ramp track runs below the thus rotating roller,
wherein, during the tensioning procedure, the ramp track is rotated along the first rotation direction such that the roller runs on the region of inclination as far as the second plateau, and the piston is thereby moved to its rear end position,
wherein, during the dispensing procedure, starting from a contact of the roller with the second plateau, the ramp track rotates along the first rotation direction until the roller runs over the transfer region and, on account of the tensioning, accelerates toward the first plateau and, as a result, the piston moves toward the open dispensing end, and
wherein the control unit measures a characteristic variable during a tensioning procedure and/or dispensing procedure, and determines therefrom, by comparing with at least one specified value, whether the tensioning procedure and/or dispensing procedure has taken place correctly.