An injection endpoint signalling assembly is provided that is adapted and configured for mounting on, and use with, a pre-filled syringe. The injection endpoint assembly is configured to prevent a signalling of an injection endpoint before the plunger of the pre-filled syringe has reached a limit of a permitted extent of a direction of injection travel. The assembly is further configured to enable the signalling of the injection end point when the plunger of the pre-filled syringe has reached the limit of the permitted extent of the direction of injection travel and is prevented from moving in a direction of travel different to the direction of injection travel.

A medicine administration system includes a medicine administration device, a medicine cartridge receivable with the medicine administration device, and a contrast background. The medicine cartridge is configured to retain medicine therein. The medicine administration device is configured to dispense at least some of the medicine through a dispensing end of the medicine cartridge. The contrast background is positioned relative to the medicine cartridge to permit visualization of the contrast background through the medicine within the medicine cartridge. The contrast background is configured to facilitate image processing of a captured image of the contrast background through the medicine within the medicine cartridge to determine a condition of the medicine within the medicine cartridge.

Systems and methods for delayed delivery of a drug are disclosed. A drug delivery system may include a delivery member for insertion into a patient and a reservoir configured to receive a volume of a drug. An energy source may be activatable by the patient to actuate the reservoir to deliver the drug to the patient as a single bolus. A lockout system may be configured to have a locked state, wherein the lockout system prevents movement of the delivery member and/or activation of the energy source, and an unlocked state, wherein the lockout system permits movement of the delivery member and/or activation of the energy source. The lockout system may be configured to automatically change from the locked state to the unlocked state after a preselected time period has elapsed. An output element may generate a detectable output after the preselected time period has elapsed for notifying the patient.

Disclosed is a method of sealing a syringe barrel having a syringe tip with a collar. The syringe tip is sealed with a resilient closure. A tamper evident syringe tip cap comprising a cap member and a sleeve member separated by an annular first breaking line is then pushed over the resilient closure, to couple the proximal end of the sleeve member with the collar. The distal end of the resilient closure is accommodated in the cap member and protrudes beyond the sleeve member. The first breaking line is bridged by a coupling strip. For use of the syringe and providing access to the closure, the first breaking line is broken by pivoting the cap member away. The sleeve member remains coupled to the collar. Further tearing the cap member downward causes breaking a second breaking line provided in the sleeve member, thereby enabling removing the entire syringe tip cap.

A medical device includes a first housing portion (FHP) and a second housing portion (SHP) configured to be to be movable relative to each other from a first position to operatively engage at a second position to couple at least one of a drive device and a needle-inserting device supported by one of the FHP and the SHP to a reservoir supported by the other of the FHP and the SHP. Electronic circuitry configured to detect at least one of a first magnetic interaction between a magnet and at least one of a first magnetically attractive material and a first magnet-responsive device and a second magnetic interaction between the magnet and at least one of a second magnetically attractive material and a second magnet-responsive device, and to provide a signal or a change in state in response to detecting at least one of the interactions.

A needle and syringe system, wherein a needle head is attached to a syringe assembly. The syringe assembly includes a syringe barrel and a plunger rod with a plunger head. A needle base is affixed to the syringe barrel. A tubular cavity is formed in the needle base and a post extends through the tubular cavity. A needle extends through the post. A spacer is provided. The spacer is displaced into the tubular cavity within the needle base as the plunger head is advanced within the syringe barrel. A protective cover is disposed about the needle base. The spacer moves the protective cover between a first position and a second position as the spacer is displaced into the tubular cavity. As the protective cover moves between positions, the protective cover surrounds the needle and prevents the needle from causing any inadvertent needle stick injuries.

A tip cap for a medical injection device, including: a tip connector configured to engage a tip of the medical injection device; a closure cap configured to sealingly close a distal opening of the tip, the closure cap being releasably connected to the tip connector; an RFID tag including a chip and an antenna, where the chip is overmolded in one of the tip connector and the closure cap and the antenna is overmolded in the other one of the tip connector and the closure cap, the chip and the antenna being electrically connected by a bridge configured to break under a relative movement applied to the closure cap and the tip connector in order to release the closure cap from the tip connector, and the antenna is located at an interface between the tip connector and the closure cap.

A fluid dispensing device adapted for intramuscular injection into a living organism is provided. The device has an energy storage arrangement providing energy in at least two bursts. The first burst is provided from a first energy source and is that which is necessary to pierce the skin of the living organism and insert the needle to the injection site. The second burst is provided by a second energy source and is that which is necessary to pump the fluid out of the reservoir and into the living organism. Optionally, the remaining energy is used to retract the needle out of the living organism. Together with a prescribed operating sequence of the device, use of the two sources of energy contained in the device is optimized to provide the at least two bursts of energy.

Devices and methods are disclosed for assisting a user of a drug delivery device with an application executing on a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may receive information from the drug delivery device related to its condition and/or operation and subsequently select an informational and/or instructional prompt to be displayed to the user based on the received information. The mobile computing device may also generate a display in the application including the selected informational prompt and/or the instructional prompt. Accordingly, the user of the drug delivery device can be guided through the drug delivery process in real time, thereby reducing the likelihood of improper or incomplete use of the drug delivery device.

Medical device having a housing with a door that transmits optical signals A medical device (1; 1′) comprises: a housing (10), a signal source (11) arranged at a section (100) of the housing (10), a control device (12) for controlling the emission of an optical signal by the signal source (11) in dependence of an operation of the medical device (1; 1′), and a door (13; 13) movably connected to the housing (10), wherein the section (100) of the housing (10) is covered by the door (13; 13) in a closed state of the door (12), and exposed in an open state of the door (13; 13′), the door (13; 13) comprising an optical device (14) adapted to transmit at least partially the optical signal through the door (13; 13′) when the door (13; 13) is in the closed state, such that the optical signal of the signal source (11) can be seen by an operator both when the door (13; 13′) is in the closed state and when the door (13; 13′) is the open state.