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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
May. 02, 2014
Sanofi-aventis Deutschland Gmbh, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Robert Veasey, Warwickshire, GB;
David Aubrey Plumptre, Worcestershire, GB;
Paul Richard Draper, Worcestershire, GB;
David Richard Mercer, Dorset, GB;
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Abstract
A supplemental device for attachment to an injection device, the supplemental device comprising: an electromechanical switch arrangement having an open state and a closed state, the electromechanical switch arrangement comprising a protrusion configured to contact a surface of the injection device when a dose of zero units is dialled into the injection device, wherein the state of the switch arrangement is configured to change when a dose dialled into the attached injection device is decreased from one unit to zero units; and a processor arrangement configured to: detect one or more changes in the state of the electromechanical switch arrangement; and determine from the one or more state changes that a dose of zero units is dialled into the injection device.