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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2016
Novo Nordisk A/s, Bagsvaerd, DK;
Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of assembling a drug delivery device which in the assembled state defines a distal housing component () that houses a piston equipped cartridge (), and a proximal housing component () that houses a dose setting and expelling mechanism. The method includes the steps of arranging the cartridge () in the distal housing component (), arranging a nut element () threadedly engaged with a piston rod () in the distal housing component (), and securing the nut element () relative to the distal housing component () into a selective one of a series of predetermined relative orientations for obtaining a predetermined axial clearance or abutment between the piston rod () and the piston of the cartridge (). The invention further relates to a drug delivery device assembled according to the method.