Patent ID: 7034243
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: A61L,A61M

Abstract:
1. Needle disabling device comprising: A. a housing, and, B. an opening in the housing that is of sufficient size that a hypodermic needle can fit through; and, C. a bottom electrode within the housing; and, D. a top electrode that has a ridge on its front edge and this ridge becomes the surface of the electrode that the needle when placed in the opening in the housing makes contact with the electrode, and said ridge encompass most of the whole front edge of the electrode and said ridge, surface slants toward the bottom electrode within the housing; and, E. said top and bottom electrodes are aligned such within the housing below the opening that when a needle is placed through the opening the electrodes make contact with the needle and said top electrode makes contact with the needle above a point at which the bottom electrode makes contact with the needle; and, F. a power supply connected to the electrodes such that when the needle is placed through the opening and makes contact with the top and bottom electrodes, the current from the power supply flows to one of the electrodes and then through the needle to the other electrode and said electrical energy is of sufficient power that when it flows through the needle, it causes the needle to disintegrate.