Patent · US Expired

Automatically blocked safety syringe

US5205826A · kind A · utility

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8Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateNov 30, 1992
Grant dateApr 27, 1993
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 30, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61M2005/3284
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A syringe includes a hollow needle preliminarily held in a rigid blocking disk embedded in a rear disk socket perpendicularly formed in a flexible plug inserted in a front portion of the syringe for injection use having a needle head portion formed on a rear portion of the needle, and a plunger slidably held in the syringe for boosting a liquid medicine in the syringe to be injected into a patient through the hollow needle having a needle-head socket recessed in the plunger to be engageable with the needle-head socket for pushing the needle head portion of the needle frontwardly to drive the rigid blocking disk frontwardly to engage the blocking disk into a front disk socket which is normally inclinedly formed in the flexible plug and will be operatively perpendicularly biased in the plug when approximately exhausting the liquid in the syringe and finishing the injection, whereby upon a retraction of the plunger and the needle with the needle head portion received in and coupled to the plunger into the syringe to disengage the needle from the rigid disk, the flexible plug will restore the front socket and the rigid disk embedded in the front socket to be inclinedly positioned in th…

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