Patent ID: 6582415
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: A61J,Y10T

Abstract:
A connector device for establishing fluid communication between a liquid container having sidewalls and a drug vial having a neck with a closure therein, the connector comprising:a piercing member having a first end and a second end and a central fluid pathway, the piercing member being mounted to the liquid container and having fluid accessing portions hermetically sealed from an outside environment; a vial receiving chamber associated with the piercing member and being dimensioned to connect to the vial and wherein the vial may be selectively attached to the device without piercing the closure of the vial and without breaching the hermetic seal of the fluid accessing portions of the piercing member; means for connecting the vial receiving chamber to the liquid container; and wherein the device is movable from an inactivated position where the piercing member is outside the sidewalls and no fluid flows between the liquid container and the drug vial, to an activated position wherein fluid flows through the fluid pathway between the liquid container and the drug vial, the device being movable from the inactivated position to the activated position by a force applied to the device outside the liquid container.