Patent ID: 6595962
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
An injection device (1) with a slide (3) which can be displaced in relation to a housing (2) from a retracted position to an injection position, where the slide (3) comprises a portion (8) situated within the housing (2) and a portion (6) situated outside the housing, both portions (6, 8) being interconnected through a groove (10) in the housing (2), where the portion (6) situated outside the housing (2) has a syringe holder (5) for securing of a hypodermic syringe (4), and where the slide (3) is pretensioned toward the injection position by a spring (29) situated in the housing (2), characterized in that the housing (2) at the groove (10) is constituted by a tube part, the outer and/or inner surface (7, 9) of which forms a guide for the slide (3), and that the slide (3) has one or more contact faces contacting the outer surface, the contacting being distributed over more than half of the circumference of the tube part.