Patent ID: 8572834
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: A61M,G01F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of locking a syringe relative to a front-loadable power injector, the method comprising the steps of: providing a syringe having mounting flanges proximate to a rear end of the syringe; providing a front-loadable injector including an adapter having a syringe receiving opening and a pair of retaining flanges adapted to engage the syringe mounting flanges upon rearward insertion of the syringe within the opening and rotation of the syringe; providing a syringe lock in a rotational path of the syringe, the syringe lock protruding from an exterior of the adapter through the adapter and into the syringe receiving opening; and, installing a syringe relative to the injector by engaging the syringe mounting flanges with the retaining flanges.