US 12,171,989 B2
Medication delivery device
Roy Howard Byerly, Indianapolis, IN (US); Collin Hunter Grimes, Halethorpe, MD (US); Jeffrey Manfred Gunnarsson, Baltimore, MD (US); Chenrong Meng, Shanghai (CN); Andre Rafael Minoli, Baltimore, MD (US); Mariano Mumpower, Baltimore, MD (US); Brian Gregory Murphy, Baltimore, MD (US); Aaron Samuel Pearl, Baltimore, MD (US); Abbie Lynn Shoemaker, Baltimore, MD (US); and Samuel Robert Zschack, Baltimore, MD (US)
Assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY, Indianapolis, IN (US)
Filed by Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN (US)
Filed on Sep. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/947,574.
Application 17/947,574 is a continuation of application No. 16/631,567, granted, now 11,524,117, previously published as PCT/US2018/046860, filed on Aug. 17, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/547,168, filed on Aug. 18, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0017492 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61M 5/315 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/31546 (2013.01) [A61M 5/31535 (2013.01); A61M 5/31568 (2013.01); A61M 5/31585 (2013.01); A61M 2005/31588 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3306 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3327 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medication delivery device comprising:
a device body;
a dose setting member attached to said device body and rotatable relative to said device body about an axis of rotation during dose delivery;
a sensed element rotationally fixed with said dose setting member, said sensed element including alternating first and second surface features radially-spaced about the axis of rotation of said dose setting member, in which the surface features comprise alternating projections and recesses, said sensed element and said dose setting member rotating relative to said device body during dose delivery in relation to an amount of dose delivered;
a rotation sensor including a light source emitting sensing light in an axial direction during dose delivery, and a light sensor positioned to receive the sensing light during dose delivery, wherein the light source and the light sensor are axially disposed relative to one another, wherein in response to rotation of said sensed element during dose delivery the alternating first and second surface features are positioned directly between the light source and the light sensor in a path of the sensing light to vary light intensities detected by the light sensor; and
an electronics assembly responsive to the rotation sensor to determine the amount of rotation of the sensed element based on detection of the varying light intensities.