Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Joseph Brizzolara

James S Bates

Robert Banik

Amit Uday Limaye

Keith N Knapp

Abhijitsinh S Raj

Joshua Herr

Charles George Hwang

Joshua D Horvath

Keith Knapp, Ii

Amit Limaye

A pen needle, comprising a reusable adapter configured for attachment to a distal end of a medication pen, the adapter having a proximal needle for accessing the interior of the pen injector and a fitting on the distal side for mating with a patient end needle assembly, and a disposable patient-end needle assembly having a base configured for mating with the fitting on the distal side of the adapter and a patient-end needle extending from a distal end of the base.

Pen needle assembly

A pen needle is provided with a plastic non-patient end. Since the non-patient end needle does not contact the patient, the needle can be formed with a larger diameter, permitting more secure attachment to a medication pen and greater medication flow from the cartridge through the cannula. In addition, a two-part hub construction comprising a needle bearing sub assembly and an adapter for attachment to the pen body may be used to lower materials volume and costs, and reduce sharps disposal. In embodiments, a hub according to the invention may be provided with a shield that provides an audible and/or tactile indication when full penetration depth of the needle is achieved. Windows on the shield may reveal a color band on the hub at the full-penetration depth position to provide the user with a visual indication that the pen needle has been used.

A pen needle () for use with a drug delivery device () includes a hub body () having internal threads () to receive the drug delivery device (). A post () is connected to the hub body (). A needle () is rigidly fixed to the post (). The post () is separable from the hub body () such that the needle () is removed with the post (). The fluid path is not disturbed by such removal because the entire needle () is removed with the post (). Removal of only the post () and needle () reduces the volume of waste required for disposal, thereby increasing the effective capacity of a sharps container.

Separable hub post of pen needle

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Vermillion, OH, United States of America

Joseph Brizzolara