Patent ID: 8241254

Claim:
A medical needle system comprising: a medical needle shield apparatus comprising: a medical needle having a tip, a safety housing on the medical needle which is moveable to sheath the tip of the medical needle and can be reset more than one time to expose and re-expose the tip, and a reset geometry within the safety housing which is configured to be selectively driven to move the safety housing so that the tip of the medical needle is re-exposed after the safety housing sheathes the tip, wherein the safety housing has access features which provide access to the reset geometry via the safety housing; and a reset device comprising alignment features and reset features, wherein the alignment features mate with the access features to enable the safety housing to be aligned with respect to the reset features as the safety housing is advanced toward the reset features, and wherein the reset features are configured to extend through the access features and be driven against the reset geometry to move the reset geometry on the medical needle so that the safety housing no longer sheathes the tip of the medical needle.