US 12,453,820 B2
Device for administering a fluid
Frank Altermann, Tuttlingen (DE); Daniel Seeh, Immendingen (DE); Robin Sauter, Tuttlingen (DE); Maikel Wiedmann, Immendingen (DE); and Anika Schmidt, Fridingen (DE)
Assigned to Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH, Tuttlingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/640,195
Filed by Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH, Tuttlingen (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/069453
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/043474, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102019123733.5 (DE), filed on Sep. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0339359 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61M 5/30 (2006.01); A61M 5/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/30 (2013.01) [A61M 5/2053 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for administering a fluid, comprising:
a cylinder, including 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; and
a tensioning device connected to the piston rod, including a ramp which is rotatable via a motor, and a ramp track extending along a helical line,
wherein the tensioning device can move 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 to pretension the piston rod toward the open dispensing end,
wherein the tensioning device, when the piston is in the rear end position, can release 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 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 includes 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 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, in the tensioning procedure, the ramp track rotates along the first rotation direction such that the roller runs on the region of inclination as far as the second plateau and the piston thereby moves to the rear end position,
wherein, in 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 piston rod is connected to the driver via a joint.