Patent ID: 7462169

Claim:
A safety shield system for an injection pen needle comprising: a needle hub; a needle mounted in the hub and having an injection end and a non-injection end, wherein the hub has a first recess surrounding the injection end of the needle and a second recess surrounding the non-injection end of the needle to receive a pen-injector; a first shield moving coaxially over the first recess of the hub and having an aperture in an end wall thereof for passage of the needle, and traveling from a retracted position in which the needle is exposed to a full travel position in which the shield covers the injection end of the needle; a second shield moving within the second recess of the hub and having an aperture to permit passage of the non-injection end of the needle into the pen-injector, and traveling inside the second recess from a position in which the pen injector is installed in the hub to a full travel position in which the pen injector is removed from the hub and the second shield covers the non-injection end of the needle; a first elastic member housed between the first shield and the hub, engaging the first shield to hold the first shield in the full travel position; a second elastic member housed between the second shield and the hub, engaging the second shield to hold the second shield in its full travel position; and wherein the first elastic member is a clip positioned against the hub and having a tab that in a locked position engages aligned slots in both the radial wall of the hub and the radial wall of the first shield.