Patent ID: 7955310
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A medical needle unit comprising: a hollow needle; a holding member formed so that its base end holds the needle base end and its main body covers the needle while having a space between the holding member and the needle, and a needle tip end sticks out from a main body tip end; a covering member that is provided in the space between the holding member main body and the needle, and is movable with respect to the holding member between a housed posture and a covering posture, the housed posture being on the base end side in which the covering member is housed within the holding member main body while the needle tip end sticks out from the holding member main body, and the covering posture being on a tip end side in which the covering member sticks out from the holding member main body and covers the needle tip end; a guide portion that is formed on the holding member main body so as to guide a projection formed on an outer peripheral surface of the covering member and enable the covering member to move between the housed posture and the covering posture; an engaging mechanism that disengageably engages with the projection and holds the covering member in the housed posture, and allows the movement from the housed posture to the covering posture of the covering member according to disengagement of the projection; and an urging member that forcibly moves the covering member to the covering posture, the projection of the covering member being disengaged from the engagement mechanism until the projection reaches the projection movement terminal of the guide portion, wherein when a force is applied to push-back the covering member against forcible movement by the urging member to the base end side with the projection being positioned at the projection movement terminal, the projection is configured to prevent the covering member from moving to the base end side and prevent the needle tip from being exposed from the covering member, the guide portion comprises a first guide joined to the engaging mechanism at the base end and formed to be a slot-shaped and long in the lengthwise direction of the needle inclined circumferentially to one direction and a second guide joined from a tip end of the first guide inclined or curved circumferentially to the other direction and guides the projection through the first guide which is inclined circumferentially to one direction to the projection movement terminal while leading this projection along the inclined shape or curved shape circumferentially to the other direction with respect to the holding member, and the holding member main body is provided with a return preventive guide that faces the projection movement terminal while being positioned in the second guide side rather than the tip end of the first guide, and allows the projection to return to the base end side within a range that the needle tip does not stick out from the covering member when a force is applied to push-back the covering member whose projection is positioned at the projection movement terminal to the base end side, and a returning movement limiting portion that is positioned closer to the base end side than the projection movement terminal is to the base end side, the projection movement terminal is closer to the tip end side than the returning movement terminal of the return preventive guide is to the tip end side, and the returning movement limiting portion is positioned at the tip end side of the first guide while being spaced toward the base end side from the projection positioned at the projection movement terminal, and restricts the returning movement of the projection toward the first guide side, the returning movement limiting portion restricting the returning movement of the projection toward the first guide side by contacting with the projection when a force to push-back the covering member toward the base end side is applied and thereby restricting movement of the projection positioned at the projection movement terminal moves toward the tip end of the first guide.