Patent ID: 6729370
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: A61J

Abstract:
A syringe safety device configured to form a fluid coupling between a sealed vial and a syringe, the syringe safety device comprising:a tubular connector having opposing first and second axial open ends, the first open axial end being adapted to engage an end of a conventional medicine vial with stopper, the second axial end having an open ended cavity; and a sliding joint received in the second open axial end of the tubular connector, the sliding joint having opposing first and second open axial ends and a passageway between the first and second axial open ends, the first axial open end being adapted to engage with an enlarged, blunt mounting end of a syringe needle, the second axial end of the sliding joint further being adapted to releasably engage at least a releasable needle receiver on a distal end of a barrel of a conventional syringe without needle, the syringe being releasably removable from the sliding joint after fluid coupling with the vial through the passageway of the sliding joint without removal of the sliding joint from the tubular connector and without the needle, the second open axial end of the tubular connector receiving the sliding joint, wherein the sliding joint has at least one circumferentially and radially outwardly extending protrusion and wherein the tubular connector has at least one spring clip member extending inwardly into the cavity such that the protrusion of the sliding joint must cam under and past the at least one spring clip member to fully seat in the cavity, the protrusion and the at least one spring clip member being mutually adapted such that the at least one spring clip member snaps against the sliding joint after the protrusion has cammed under and past the at least one spring clip member.