Patent ID: 8287493

Claim:
A disposable injector comprising: a housing ( 10 ) in which or on which are arranged, in each case at least in some areas, a mechanical spring energy reservoir ( 50 ), the housing ( 10 ) having a bearing surface ( 37 ) proximate a recess ( 34 ) therethrough, a cylinder and piston unit ( 100 ) that can be filled at least temporarily with active substance, the cylinder and piston unit ( 100 ) comprising a piston ( 111 ) and a cylinder ( 101 ), a piston-actuating ram ( 60 ) and a trigger unit ( 80 ) in operative arrangement with the cylinder and piston unit ( 100 ), the spring energy reservoir ( 50 ) includes at least one pretensioned spring element, at least part of the piston-actuating ram ( 60 ) is operatively arranged between the spring energy reservoir ( 50 ) and the piston ( 111 ) of the cylinder and piston unit ( 100 ), the spring-loaded piston-actuating ram ( 60 ) includes a tension bar ( 61 ) which is transversely movable at least in some areas between a locked active substance pre-dispensing position and an unlocked active substance dispensing position and the tension bar ( 61 ) includes a support portion ( 65 ), the housing ( 10 ) has a housing edge ( 36 ) proximate the recess ( 34 ), the tension bar ( 61 ) forms, together with the support portion ( 65 ), a tension hook ( 62 ) which, in the locked position, engages over the housing edge ( 36 ), the bearing surface ( 37 ) of the housing ( 10 ) in supportive relationship with the support portion ( 65 ), the support portion ( 65 ) for supporting the tensioned spring energy reservoir ( 50 ) in the locked position, the trigger unit ( 80 ) includes a trigger slide ( 82 ), a transversely movable trigger lever ( 16 ) bearing on the housing ( 10 ), and a catch element ( 95 ) for holding the tension hook ( 62 ) in the locked position, the trigger slide ( 82 ) has a conical, frustoconical or pyramidal area ( 84 ) and carries in its interior a trigger wedge ( 86 ), the tension hook ( 62 ), the trigger lever ( 16 ), and the catch element ( 95 ) are located in the trigger unit ( 80 ), the catch element ( 95 ) bears on the left-hand side thereof on the trigger wedge ( 86 ) and at the right-hand side thereof on an upper contact zone ( 18 ) of the trigger lever ( 16 ), a part of the catch element ( 95 ) simultaneously sits in the recess ( 34 ), blocking the tension hook ( 62 ) in the locked position, and the trigger slide ( 82 ) in operative arrangement with the transversely movable trigger lever ( 16 ), the trigger slide ( 82 ) for displacing transversely the trigger lever ( 16 ) by a longitudinal sliding movement or pivoting movement of the trigger slide ( 82 ) for simultaneously pushing the catch element ( 95 ) upwardly by forcing the trigger lever ( 16 ) inwardly and the trigger wedge ( 86 ) simultaneously contacting and releasing the tension hook ( 62 ) from the locked position by sliding the support portion ( 65 ) from the bearing surface ( 37 ) by the trigger wedge ( 86 ) pushing the support portion ( 65 ) transversely.