Patent ID: 8403886

Claim:
A safety catheter device comprising: a catheter hub and a catheter tube extending therefrom; a needle having a needle shaft terminating in a sharp tip; a clip having a rigid, first wall with an aperture adapted to slidably receive the needle shaft therethrough in a first state of the clip and to grip the needle shaft in a second state of the clip, the clip having a second wall, the second wall being spaced from the first wall and being generally L-shaped to define an integral lip of the second wall at a free end thereof, the lip including a coined portion defining a stylus adapted to bear against the shaft in the first state, the second wall being adapted to confront a tip of the needle in the second state, the lip cooperating to confine the needle tip in the second state of the clip, and a strut connecting the first and second walls; and a spring member biasing the clip toward the second state; the needle having a first position slidably received through the aperture of the clip first wall, in bearing relationship with the clip second wall stylus, and extending through the catheter tube with the sharp tip exposed in the first state of the clip, the needle having a second position in which the needle tip has been pulled out of the catheter tube past the clip second wall such that the clip moves towards the second state and grips the needle shaft with the tip blocked by the clip second wall.