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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2013
Vigmed Ab, Helsingborg, SE;
Lennart Holm, Helsingborg, SE;
Robert Domonkos, Lomma, SE;
Vigmed AB, Helsingborg, SE;
Abstract
The present application discloses a needle tip shielding device for protection of a needle tip of a needle. The needle tip shielding device comprises a fixing arrangement having a proximal side and a distal side, which fixing arrangement is comprising at least one engaging element, which engaging element is resilient and resiliently striving from a compressed state towards an expanded state, in which expanded state the shortest distance between a point of said engaging element and the central axis of said needle tip shielding device is longer than the shortest distance between said central axis and any other point of said needle tip shielding device. A catheter instrument comprising the needle tip shielding device and a method for manufacturing is also disclosed.