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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2019
Antares Pharma, Inc., Ewing, NJ (US);
Michael Travanty, S. Minneapolis, MN (US);
Steven W. Mattix, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Antares Pharma, Inc., Ewing, NJ (US);
Abstract
An injector including: a housing, a cap detachably coupled to the housing, a ram assembly having a ram configured to pressurize a medicament container for expelling a medicament therefrom, the ram assembly including a trigger engagement member, an energy source associated with the ram for powering the ram to expel medicament from the medicament container, a trigger member disposed about an axis, the trigger member moveable between a pre-firing configuration and a firing configuration, wherein medicament is expelled from the medicament container when the trigger member is in the firing configuration, a needle guard moveably coupled to the housing, the needle guard movable between a storage position and a pre-injection position, wherein the needle guard moves from the storage position to the pre-injection position as the cap is detached from the housing.