US 11,833,338 B2
Injector device
Beate Franke, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Ulrich Brueggemann, Bridgewater, NJ (US); and Jeff Kablik, Bridgewater, NJ (US)
Assigned to Sanofi, Paris (FR)
Filed by Sanofi, Paris (FR)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/152,513.
Application 18/152,513 is a division of application No. 16/768,246, granted, now 11,577,032, previously published as PCT/EP2018/083181, filed on Nov. 30, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17306675 (EP), filed on Dec. 1, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0158254 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. A61M 5/32 (2006.01); A61M 5/315 (2006.01); A61M 5/34 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/3287 (2013.01) [A61M 5/31513 (2013.01); A61M 5/3202 (2013.01); A61M 5/347 (2013.01); A61M 2005/3289 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using an injector device, the method comprising:
sliding a needle sleeve of the injector device into a housing of the injector device such that the needle sleeve engages a needle unit of the injector device, pushes the needle unit into engagement with a cartridge of the injector device, and moves a needle of the needle unit into fluid communication with a reservoir of the injector device, and
rotating the needle unit relative to the cartridge as the needle unit is pushed into engagement with the cartridge.