Genzyme Corporation

Tom Alan Oakley

Iskandar Vasiev

Haiming Wu

Adam Christopher Nightingale

Joel John Williams

Kiara May-Leen Taylor

Kamaal De Silva

Matthew Christopher Latham

A hold assistance device for use with a medicament delivery device is described. The hold assistance device includes: a housing configured to be coupled to a medicament delivery device; a chamber for containing air, the chamber having a proximal end and a distal end; and a piston movable within the chamber between the proximal and distal ends of the chamber, wherein the piston is arrangeable in an activated position inside the chamber in which the piston is arranged proximate to the proximal end of the chamber such that the chamber is at least partially evacuated of air and movement of the piston towards the distal end of the chamber is resisted by a vacuum force.

Hold assistance device for use with a medicament delivery device

A hold assistance device for use with a medicament delivery device is described. The hold assistance device includes: a first support configured to be fixedly coupled to a main body of a medicament delivery device, wherein the first support comprises a first attraction component; and a second support moveable relative to the first support between an initial position and a hold position and configured to be fixedly coupled to a needle cover of the medicament delivery device, wherein the second support includes a second attraction component, and wherein at least one of the first attraction component and the second attraction component is a magnet, and the other of the first attraction component and the second attraction component is a magnet or a ferromagnetic material; and wherein movement of the second support towards the hold position moves the second attraction component towards the first attraction component.

Hold assistance device

A hold assistance device for use with a medicament delivery device is described. The hold assistance device includes: a housing configured to be fixedly coupled to a medicament delivery device, the housing comprising: a proximal end and a distal end defining an axial direction, and an inclined surface angled relative to the axial direction; a blocking element moveable along the inclined surface; and an actuation element moveable relative to the housing and arrangeable in an activated position in which the actuation element applies an activation force to the blocking element in a direction towards the distal end, such that movement of the actuation element into the activated position causes the blocking element to move against the inclined surface towards the distal end and to exert a clamping force generally normal to the axial direction.

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Cambourne, United Kingdom

Tom Alan Oakley