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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2016
Applicants:
Retractable Technologies, Inc., Little Elm, TX (US);
Thomas J. Shaw, Frisco, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Retractable Technologies, Inc., Little Elm, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 5/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 5/3232 (2013.01); A61M 5/3276 (2013.01); A61M 5/321 (2013.01); A61M 2005/3224 (2013.01); A61M 2005/3227 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical device attachable to the front of a conventional syringe and having a hub assembly selectively attachable to the syringe, a nose projecting forwardly from the hub assembly, a rearwardly biased needle retraction mechanism seated inside the nose, a retractable needle projecting forwardly of the nose, and a fluid flow path from the fluid chamber through the hub assembly, nose, needle retraction assembly and needle, wherein the needle is retracted into the nose and a retraction tube external to the syringe by rotating the syringe relative to the nose.