Patent ID: 9248242
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A61M

Claim Text:
1. A needle guard safety device couplable to a ready-to-fill syringe comprising a body for receiving a medicine cartridge, the medicine cartridge having a medicine cartridge body and a medicine cartridge flange extending outwardly from a proximal end of the medicine cartridge body, a needle guard moveable relative to the body for covering a needle extending from the medicine cartridge, a plunger to dispense medicine from the medicine cartridge, and a spring for activation of the needle guard to cover the needle, wherein trigger fingers of the needle guard are seated on the body retaining the needle guard in a pre-activation position where the needle is exposed and spaced such that the medicine cartridge flange will not unseat the trigger fingers during assembly of the medicine cartridge into the body.