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US 12,251,540 · App. 18/205,966 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Injection device with flexible dose selection

Inventor: Joachim Keitel (Esslingen, DE)
Assignee: Medmix Switzerland AG
A61M5/3156A61M5/24A61M5/31536A61M5/31541A61M5/31551A61M5/31553A61M5/31563A61M5/3157A61M5/3158A61M5/31593A61M2005/3154A61M5/50A61M2205/581A61M2205/582A61M2207/00
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Patent No.
US 12,251,540
App. No.
18/205,966
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An injection device incorporating a dose setting mechanism is presented where the dose setting mechanism contains a dose selector having one or more dose stops corresponding to a finite set of predetermined fixed doses, where the set of finite predetermined fixed doses includes a lowest fixed dose and one or more higher fixed doses, and where at least one of the one or more higher fixed doses is equal to the lowest fixed dose plus a fractional amount of the lowest fixed dose. The dose setting mechanism can further include a floating spline that is rotationally engaged with a snap element such that the snap element can rotate relative to the floating spline during both dose setting and dose delivery.

Claims (43)

1. A dose setting mechanism for an injection device, the dose setting mechanism comprising:

a dose knob;

a dose selector comprising at least one dose stop that corresponds to one of a finite set of one or more predetermined fixed dose settings; and

a snap element,

the snap element being configured to interact with the dose selector to set the one or more predetermined fixed dose settings,

the snap element being configured to rotate relative to the dose selector during dose delivery, and

the snap element being configured such that, at an end of the dose delivery, further rotation of the snap element causes a protrusion of the snap element to abut a zero dose hard stop of the dose selector to prevent any further rotation of the snap element,

the zero dose hard stop being different from the at least one dose stop.

2. The dose setting mechanism of claim 1 , wherein the protrusion is configured to abut the zero dose hard stop to prevent dialing of a dose less than zero when the dose setting mechanism is in an initial zero set dose position.

3. The dose setting mechanism of claim 1 , wherein the zero dose hard stop is located on an inner surface of the dose selector.

4. The dose setting mechanism of claim 1 , wherein the dose knob is configured to be pushed in a proximal direction during dose delivery until the protrusion reaches the zero dose hard stop.

5. The dose setting mechanism of claim 1 , wherein one or more dose stops are located on an inner surface of the dose selector, and engagement of a second protrusion of the snap element with one of the one or more dose stops sets a single fixed dose of medicament for delivery.

6. The dose setting mechanism of claim 1 , wherein rotation of the dose knob during dose setting causes rotation and axial movement of the snap element and only axial movement of the dose selector.

7. The dose setting mechanism of claim 1 , wherein:

the dose knob is configured to be rotated during dose setting to set the finite set of the one or more predetermined fixed dose settings, and

the dose knob includes a radially projecting rib.

8. A dose setting mechanism for an injection device comprising:

a dose knob;

a dose selector comprising at least one dose stop that corresponds to one of a finite set of one or more predetemlined fixed dose settings; and

a snap element,

the snap element being configured to interact with the dose selector to set the one or more predetermined fixed dose settings,

the snap element being configured to rotate relative to the dose selector during dose setting, the dose setting mechanism comprising a maximum dose hard stop that is engaged if a user dials past a maximum predetermined dose setting,

the maximum dose hard stop being disposed on the dose selector, and

a protrusion of the snap element being configured to interact with the maximum dose hard stop if the user dials past the maximum predetermined dose setting.

9. The dose setting mechanism of claim 8 , wherein engagement of the protrusion with the maximum dose hard stop will prevent further rotation of the snap element.

10. The dose setting mechanism of claim 8 , wherein the maximum dose hard stop has a shape such that the protrusion cannot be rotated past the maximum dose hard stop without deforming or breaking one or more components of the dose setting mechanism.

11. The dose setting mechanism of claim 8 , wherein one or more dose stops are located on an inner surface of the dose selector, and engagement of a second protrusion of the snap element with one of the one or more dose stops sets a single fixed dose of medicament for delivery.

12. The dose setting mechanism of claim 8 , wherein the finite set of one or more predetermined fixed dose settings is defined only by a number of and relative spacing between the at least one dose stop such that replacing the dose selector with a second dose selector having a different arrangement of dose stops results in the dose setting mechanism having a different set of finite predetermined fixed dose settings.

13. A dose setting mechanism comprising:

a dose knob;

a dose selector comprising at least one dose stop that corresponds to one of a finite set of one or more predetermined fixed dose settings; and

a snap element,

the snap element being configured to interact with the dose selector to set the one or more predetermined fixed dose settings,

the snap element being configured to rotate relative to the dose selector during dose setting, the dose knob being axially fixed to the dose selector, and

the dose knob being configured to rotate relative to the dose selector during both dose setting and dose cancellation.

14. The dose setting mechanism of claim 13 , wherein the dose knob comprises snap elements that are configured to be engaged with corresponding cut-outs of the dose selector.

15. The dose setting mechanism of claim 13 , wherein an interaction between a protrusion on the snap element and a circumferential rib on the dose selector prevents proximal movement of the dose knob unless a dose has been set.

16. The dose setting mechanism of claim 13 , wherein an initiation of a dose delivery procedure includes an axial movement of the dose knob and the dose selector, which is axially fixed to the dose knob.

17. The dose setting mechanism of claim 13 , wherein the dose knob and the dose selector are biased in a distal direction relative to the snap element by a biasing member.

18. The dose setting mechanism of claim 13 , wherein delivery of a set dose requires an axial driving force applied in a proximal direction to the dose knob.

19. The dose setting mechanism of claim 18 , wherein:

the dose knob and the dose selector are configured to move axially in the proximal direction relative to the snap element at an initiation of a dose delivery procedure,

the dose selector comprises a radially projecting circumferential rib that engages a protrusion on the snap element such that the dose selector can only be pressed and moved in the proximal direction to start the dose delivery procedure when the protrusion is aligned with a cut-out in the radially projecting rib.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 16888086 · May 29, 2020
Continuation 15649287 · Jul 13, 2017
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