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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2015
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Craig Field Sampson, Lake Bluff, IL (US);
Jacob S. Brauer, Cambridge, MA (US);
Stuart Desha Breslin, Danville, IN (US);
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
A medication injection device () includes a housing () and a needled syringe () supported by the housing. The needle syringe has a plunger () and a volume containing medication. The medication injection device further includes an expelling mechanism () operably coupled to the plunger. Additionally, the device includes a thermal locking mechanism () operably coupled to the expelling mechanism, comprising a material which is solid when the device is refrigerated and transitions to a liquid or gel-like state at a phase-change temperature when the device is taken out of refrigeration and warms up together with the contained drug to a temperature which is suitable for performing an injection. In the solid state, the material keeps the expelling mechanism locked in a disabling condition inhibiting delivery of the medication and in its liquid state creates an enabling condition permitting delivery of the medication.