Sanofi-a Ventis Deutschland Gmbh

Sanofi

Sanofi-aventis Deutshcland Gmbh

Axel Teucher

Michael Jugl

Stefan Blancke

Christiane Schneider

Günther Sendatzki

Axel Forstreuter

Marc Schader

Marc Holtwick

Marcus-Meinolf Dittrich

Andrew Tubb

Florian Schauderna

Frank Roethke

Michael Helmer

Matthew Meredith Jones

Mark Digby Teucher

Stephen Francis Gilmore

James Anthony West

James Robert Coop

Christian Pommereau

Timothy Golnik

Daniel David Higgins

Anke Liewald

Sebastian Braun

Ralph Donald Quentin Collings

Joseph Flaherty

Anthony Paul Morris

Samuel Steel

William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh

Kerstine Hemmann

Anton Petkov

Lars Berger

Mario Esser

Frank Flacke

Jochen Sieber

Artur Keil

Fabio Ciancitto

Alexandra Beer

Ashley Engelhardt

Joseph Pomata

Thora Thorgilsdottir

Claudia Biedermann

Alyssa Rosenzweig

Margaret Wiley

Rainer Dönig

Arnaud Sestier

A medicament delivery device comprising: a main body arranged to receive a medicament cartridge sealed with a penetrable barrier; a needle carrier carrying a needle; a cap removably coupled to the needle carrier, a pre-stressed spring connected to the needle carrier and to the main body, wherein the pre-stressed spring is held by an activation element coupled to the cap, wherein the activation element is arranged to release the spring when the cap is pulled in a distal direction from the device, thereby causing the needle carrier to move axially in a proximal direction.

Medicament injection device

A medical device for supporting health control is provided. An example medical device can include a receiver unit configured to receive information regarding a current location of the medical device or a current time-zone of the medical device, a user interface, a storage unit storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to cause the medical device to perform operations. Examples of operations include determining a current location of the medical device and/or a current time zone of the medical device from the received information, providing a dose helper functionality employing a titration method to determine and/or recommend a basal long-acting insulin dose value or a corrective amount of basal long-acting insulin to be administered by a patient to the patient based on a measured physiological parameter, information about hyperglycemic events, the determined current location and/or current time zone of the medical device.

Medical device with dose helper functionality including time zone or location determination

A drive train for a wind-up injection device, comprises a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle coupled with a button, a rotationally drivable expelling mechanism, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and comprising a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions, wherein via the rotatable element, the clutch element is adapted to transmit a torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage or from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism, and wherein the ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, and wherein the drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks by a flexible impact portion in the area of the clutch element.

Drive train for dial of a torsion-spring assisted wind-up injection device

An injection device for setting and injecting of a dose of a medicament includes: an acoustic feedback arrangement comprising: a first feedback element having a first engaging section and having a free end section located at a predetermined distance from the first engaging section, a second feedback element having a second engaging section configured to engage with the first engaging section, wherein the first feedback element is movable, pivotable or resiliently deformable along a first direction (d) relative to the second feedback element from an initial state (i) towards a biased state (b), and a sound generator formed by the first engaging section or audibly engageable with the free end section of the first feedback element.

Injection device with an acoustic feedback arrangement

An assembly for a drug delivery device and an associated drug delivery device are provided. The device has a drug delivery device housing and a medicament contained in the drug delivery device housing. A clutch is established between the dose knob and the dial link to prevent inadvertent proximal axial movement of the lead screw away from the cartridge piston, which can lead to dosing inaccuracies.

Drug delivery device with dose knob clutch

A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.

A data management unit for supporting health control, the unit including: a processor, a data input adapted to input data and/or requests and connected to the processor, a data storage connected to the processor, wherein the processor is adapted to assign a tag referring to an event chosen from a group of tags comprising the fasting tag and at least one other event tag to a new data received from the data input or a measurement unit, wherein the tag is assigned either automatically by the processor and/or via the data input, wherein the fasting tag can only be assigned to the new data if a time stamp of the new data is within a predefined fasting window, wherein the predefined fasting window is stored in the data storage.

Data management unit for supporting health control

The invention refers to a medical device for supporting health control. In order to provide safe access to a dose helper functionality, the device has a first storage means arranged to store an initial data matrix with at least one initial parameter set containing at least two initial data entries for one parameter of the dose helper functionality; receiving means arranged to receive initialization data and/or security data, preferably from a second storage means, for example provided by a hardware key; selecting means operable to select based at least in part on the initialization data one data entry for each initial parameter set as initial data or one initial parameter template containing a reference to one data entry for each initial parameter set as initial data; and first activation means arranged to activate, preferably based at least in part on the security data, execution of the dose helper functionality based on the selected initial data. The invention further refers to a respective medical system, a method for providing such information, a respective computer program and a respective computer program product.

Medical system

Data management units for supporting health control of a human or animal body. The units can include a processor adapted to process the following steps: i) if a number of previous measurement data referring to a corresponding tag stored in a data storage is less than a predetermined minimum value: a) no tag is automatically assigned to a new measurement value, or b) a corresponding tag chosen from a group of tags is automatically assigned to the new measurement value based on a first tagging calculation rule; and ii) if the number of the previous measurement data referring to a corresponding tag stored in the data storage is equal to or bigger than the predetermined minimum value, the corresponding tag chosen from a group of tags is automatically assigned to the new measurement value based on at least one second tagging calculation rule.

Described is an injection device () for administering a drug, the injection device () comprising a cartridge holder () adapted to receive a drug cartridge (), a hollow injection needle () having a proximal tip () adapted to pierce a septum () of the cartridge () so as to establish a fluid communication between the cartridge () and the needle (), and a cap () arrangeable over the cartridge holder () in a manner to cover the needle (). In an initial state the cartridge () is arranged within the cartridge holder () with the septum () axially spaced from the proximal tip () of the needle (). The cap () is adapted to move the needle () relative to the septum () for piercing it on movement of the cap () relative to the cartridge holder ().

Injection device

The present disclosure relates to a flexible container for an injection device including a flexible bag having an interior volume to be filled with a liquid medicament, an outlet located at a first end of the bag, and a contraction member connected to the bag to displace a second end of the bag located opposite to the first end towards the first end.

Flexible container for an injection device

Described herein are specialized needle assemblies for injection systems. One example injection system includes a needle assembly configured to removably attach to a drug delivery device and a housing configured to receive a drug cartridge. The needle assembly includes a needle configured to extend through an outlet port of the drug delivery device and establish fluid communication with the drug cartridge within the housing of the drug delivery device. The needle assembly may include a fluid flow sensor monitoring the fluid flow and/or occlusions within the needle assembly, and provide indications of an occluded or clogged needle and/or one or more indications of proper flow through the needle, e.g., non-occlusion of the needle. In some examples, the arrangement of the needle assembly includes sensors to detect an occlusion within a portion of a needle.

Needle assembly and drug delivery device having such needle assembly

An assembly for a drug delivery device is presented. The assembly comprises a housing and a piston rod having a longitudinal axis, a distal end and a proximal end. The piston rod further comprises a piston rod interaction feature, and a piston rod guide being movable with respect to the piston rod, the piston rod guide further comprising a guide interaction feature corresponding to the piston rod interaction feature, the piston rod guide being movable with respect to the piston rod to switch between a first state and a second state of the assembly, the second state being different from the first state. The assembly is configured such that, in a first state of the assembly, the piston rod guide is in a first axial position relative to the piston rod in which the piston rod interaction feature is arranged to interact with the guide interaction feature to prevent proximal movement of the piston rod with respect to the housing, and wherein, in a second state of the assembly being different from the first state, the piston rod guide is in a second axial position relative to the piston rod, the second axial position being different from the first axial position, wherein, in the second axial position, the piston rod interaction feature and the guide interaction feature are arranged such that proximal movement of the piston rod with respect to the housing is allowed.

Assembly for a drug delivery device

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Axel Teucher