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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2020
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., Exton, PA (US);
Kevin Hopper, Athens, TX (US);
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., Exton, PA (US);
Abstract
An injection device includes a lower housing, a needle guard and an upper housing. With the upper housing in a pre-use position and the needle guard in a first position, an abutment body of an arm of the upper housing abuts a catch of the lower housing, preventing the upper housing from moving distally relative to the lower housing toward a dispensed position. Proximal movement of the needle guard from the first position to a second position thereof causes proximal movement of a camming ramp of a leg of the needle guard with respect to the catch and the abutment body such that the camming ramp engages the arm, thereby deflecting the abutment body radially outwardly by a distance sufficient to allow the abutment body to pass radially outside of the catch, and, in turn, permits the distal movement of the upper housing into the dispensed position of the upper housing.