Patent ID: 6015397
Filing Date: 2000-01-18
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A needle point guard safety cap assembly for securely covering and protecting the needle point of a syringe after the syringe has been used, comprising:a) a syringe attachment member operable to firmly attach the needle point guard safety cap assembly to the needle hub of a syringe;b) a needle point cover member in the form of an elongated hollow member that is open at one end for receiving the needle therein, and at its other end is mostly enclosed by an end wall having a hole through which the needle can pass;c) a lid adapted to close the otherwise open end of the cover member, the lid also having a hole through which the needle may pass so that the needle may extend through both holes;d) an extensible frame having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end coupled to the syringe attachment member and the distal end coupled to the needle point cover; the extensible frame being manually actuable for advancing the cover member along the needle to where the end wall of the cover member is beyond the extremity of the needle point;e) the needle point cover member then being supported by the hole in the lid and then, in response to further advancement of the cover member, rotating about the lid hole until the needle point passes inside the enclosed end wall of the cover member into a protected position where it cannot pass through the cover member hole.