Patent ID: 8641673

Claim:
A portable infusion pump system, comprising: a disposable and non-reusable pump device including: a pump housing that defines a space extending along a longitudinal axis to receive a pre-filled medicine cartridge, and a drive system to dispense a medicine from the pump device when the medicine cartridge is received in the space; a reusable controller device removably attachable to the disposable and non-reusable pump device in a side-by-side arrangement, wherein a first electrical connector of the pump device mates with a second electrical connector of the controller device when the controller device removably attaches to the pump device in the side-by-side arrangement; and a release member that is movably mounted to one of the pump device and the controller device, the release member being movable away from the drive system of the pump device prior to detaching the controller device and the pump device from one another, the release member being movable from a locking position in which the controller device and the pump device are retained in the side-by-side arrangement to a second position in which the controller device and the pump device are detachable from one another, wherein the release member moves to the locking position to engage a mating structure of the other of the pump device and the controller device in response to sliding the pump device toward the controller device.