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Patent US9265893 - Injection button - Google Patents
A push button connection for an injection device comprising a push button (10) and a driving part (20). The two parts of the push button connection are mounted to each other and is relatively rotatable to each other. In order to minimize the friction occurring between the push button and the driving...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US9265893?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US9265893 - Injection button
Publication number US9265893 B2
Application number US 12/525,976
PCT number PCT/EP2008/050624
Filing date 21 Jan 2008
Priority date 5 Feb 2007
Also published as CA2676810A1, CA2676810C, CN101605569A, CN101605569B, DE602008002896D1, EP2109474A1, EP2109474B1, US20100145282, WO2008095762A1
Publication number 12525976, 525976, PCT/2008/50624, PCT/EP/2008/050624, PCT/EP/2008/50624, PCT/EP/8/050624, PCT/EP/8/50624, PCT/EP2008/050624, PCT/EP2008/50624, PCT/EP2008050624, PCT/EP200850624, PCT/EP8/050624, PCT/EP8/50624, PCT/EP8050624, PCT/EP850624, US 9265893 B2, US 9265893B2, US-B2-9265893, US9265893 B2, US9265893B2
Inventors Torben Stroem Hansen, Jakob Oest Wielandt, Lars Moerch Groth
Patent Citations (203), Non-Patent Citations (3), Classifications (5), Legal Events (1)
US 9265893 B2
A push button connection for an injection device comprising a push button (10) and a driving part (20). The two parts of the push button connection are mounted to each other and is relatively rotatable to each other. In order to minimize the friction occurring between the push button and the driving part when relatively rotated forces are transmitted via a pivot bearing (18, 22). In order also to minimize the effect of forces appearing dislocated from the center line a number of radial bearings (13, 23; 14, 25) having a little friction diameter is provided.
1. A push button connection for an injection device comprising:
a push button mountable on a driving part being rotatable relatively to the push button and which push button further comprises a bore with a bottom surface and which bore surrounds a protrusion on the driving part which protrusion has a top surface and wherein a pivot bearing is formed between the bottom surface and the top surface, wherein when a user presses on the push button the force is directed toward the driving part and wherein the driving part rotates relative to the push button.
2. A push button connection according to claim 1, in which at least one radial bearing between the push button and the driving part is provided.
3. A push button connection according to claim 2, in which an upper radial bearing is provided at a top part of the protrusion and a lower radial bearing is provided at the bottom of the protrusion.
4. A push button connection according to claim 3, in which the top part of the protrusion accommodating the upper radial bearing has a diameter smaller than the diameter of the remaining part of the protrusion.
5. A push button connection according to claim 1, in which the push button is manufactured from a polymeric material being softer than the material from which the driving part is manufactured.
6. A push button connection according to claim 1, in which the protrusion is provided with an extending rim mating with a track provided in the push button.
This application is a 35 U.S.C. §371 national stage application of International Patent Application PCT/EP2008/050624 (published as WO2008/095762), filed Jan. 21, 2008, which claimed priority of European Patent Application 07101729.7, filed Feb. 5, 2007; this application further claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 of U.S. Provisional Application 60/899,977, filed Feb. 7, 2007.
The invention relates to a push button connection for an injection device and especially to such connection where a push button is rotated relatively to a driving member to which it is connected.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,235,004 discloses an injection device in which according to FIG. 15-16 a dose is set by rotating the scale drum out of the housing in a threaded connection. When injecting the set dose the user pushes on the push button which forces the scale drum and the bushing to rotate together back into the housing. During this rotation of the bushing to which the push button is attached, the push button and the bushing rotates relatively to each other. The friction occurring between these relatively rotatable parts contributes to the force a user needs to apply in order to push back the bushing and the scale drum in order to inject the set dose.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,427,275 discloses an injection device in which the push button is formed with a bore encompassing a stem on a sleeve member. The push button and the stem are welded together such that the push button and the sleeve member are axially and rotatably fixed to each other.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a dose button connection for an injection device which minimizes the forces a user must apply to inject a dose.
When a user pushes on the injection button, the force applied is directed to the forward movement of the driving part, however, since the push button and the driving part rotate relatively to each other a friction between these rotating parts will occur. The user therefore also has to apply a force large enough to overcome this friction. One way of minimizing the force a user must apply in order to perform an injection is therefore to minimize this friction. By forming a pivot bearing between the two parts, the surface area of interaction between the two objects can be minimized and the radius of the resulting friction force can be kept at a minimum.
In order to secure the fit between the push button and the driving part and on the same time direct forces applied on the periphery of the push button to the driving part at least one radial bearing between the push button and the protrusion is formed.
Preferably one radial bearing is formed in the upper area and one is formed in the lower area both having the least possible radius of friction. In this way forces applied at in the periphery area of the push button and causing tilting of the push button on the protrusion of the driving part is properly transferred.
If a user applies a force eccentric to the centre axis of the push button i.e. on a peripheral area of the button, the push button will tilt and a reaction torque will occur at the radial bearings. In order to minimize this force pair, which in this load case is located at the distance from the radial bearing surface to the centre axis of the system, this distance, which again equals the radius of the protrusion, must be as little as possible and the distance between the bearings as long as possible. However, in order not to make the protrusion too narrow and fragile it is preferred to balance the radius of the bearings, such that the upper bearing has the smallest diameter and the lower bearing at the root of the column shaped protrusion has a diameter large enough to resist the bending force as a result of the offset applied push button forces.
In order to assemble the push button in an irreversible manner making it difficult to dissemble, it is preferred to secure the push button at the intended position by adding a track into which a rim on the harder part is forced during the manufacture of the injection device. The necessary compliance of the push button for the assembly snap-on can be secured by selection of a soft material and/or a vertical slit in the hollow section of the geometry.
Further the materials used for the push button and the protrusion on the driving part could be materials having low internal friction, or the materials could be surface treated in order to lower the internal friction.
The push button used in the connection has a central bore dedicated to engage the protrusion provided on the driving part. The bottom of the bore is preferable formed with a pivot. This pivot bears on a surface of the protrusion thus forming a pivot bearing.
An “injection pen” is typically an injection apparatus having an oblong or elongated shape somewhat like a pen for writing. Although such pens usually have a tubular cross-section, they could easily have a different cross-section such as triangular, rectangular or square or any variation around these geometries.
FIG. 1 Show a cross section view of the connection between a push button and a driving part.
FIG. 2 Show a cross section view of the connection and the forces occurring.
In that context it may be convenient to define that the term “distal end” in the appended figures is meant to refer to the end of the injection device carrying the injection needle whereas the term “proximal end” is meant to refer to the opposite end pointing away from the injection needle.
FIG. 1 discloses the connection between the push button 10 and the driving part 20.
When a user wants to inject a dose, which he or she has first selected, the user pushes the push button 10 which then moves the driving part 20 axially forward in the injection device. During this forward movement of the driving part 20 it also rotates usually because it is interfaced with a dose dial drum which is threadedly connected to a housing. Such injection device is described in details in EP 1.003.581. The combined axial and rotatable movement of the driving part 20 drives the set dose out from the injection device.
As the users finger pushes on the push surface 11 of the push button 10 it is unable to rotate due to the friction between the users finger and the push button 10 whereas the driving part 20 is forced to rotate due to its interface, therefore a relative rotation between the push button 10 and the driving part 20 takes place.
The push button 10 which could be manufactured from a suitable polymeric material being softer that the material from which the driving part 20 is manufactured comprises at the proximal end a push surface 11 which is contacted by the user's finger when a dose is to be injected and an opposite located cylindrical bore 12 with a circular cross section. The most proximal part 13 of the bore 12 has a smaller diameter than the remaining part 14 of the bore 12. At the distal end of the bore 12, a radial extending track 15 is provided.
The push surface 11 could be provided with a tactile cut-out 16 informing visual impaired users on the content of the injection device and the most proximal bottom surface 17 of the bore 12 is formed with a raised pointer forming a pivot 18.
The driving part 20 is provided with a protrusion 21 having a circular cross section and a top surface 22. This protrusion 21 has at its proximal end a top part 23 with a decreased diameter compared to the remaining part 26 of the protrusion 21. Further the protrusion 21 is provided with a radial extending rim 24 at its distal end. In the area around this rim 24, the protrusion 21 is provided with a belt 25 with a slightly raised diameter.
When the push button 10 is mounted on the protrusion 21 of the driving element 20 it is simply clicked on such that the extending rim 24 enters the track 15. This forms a connection almost impossible to disconnect since the polymeric material of the push button 10 is softer than the material from which the protrusion 21 is produced. In this position the pivot 18 formed in the most proximal bottom surface 17 of the bore 12 bears on the top surface 22 of the protrusion 21 thus forming a pivot bearing 22, 18. Further the push button 10 is radially supported by the protrusion 21 at the top part 23 forming a radial top bearing 23, 13. The belt 25 on the protrusion 21 bears on an area of the remaining part 14 of the bore 12 thus forming a radial bottom bearing 14, 25.
In FIG. 2 the push button 10 connection is disclosed with the various forces occurring when a user applies an injection force in the peripheral area of the push button 10.
When the user applies an injection force A at the peripheral area of the push button 10 a vertical reaction force B will appear at the pivot point 22, 18, at the same time a radial force C will occur at the upper radial bearing 13, 23. Since the upper radial bearing 13, 23 are located at the top part 23 having the smaller diameter, the resulting torque is relatively small. Further, a radial force D will occur at the lower radial bearing 14, 25, however due to the distance between the upper radial bearing 13, 23 and the lower radial bearing 14, 25, the force resulting on the lower radial bearing 14, 25 is relatively small.
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Cooperative Classification A61M5/31511, A61M5/31585, A61M5/3158
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