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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 1980
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
David S Akhavi, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
American Hospital Supply Corporation, Evanston, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1282 / ; 128221 ;
Abstract
A needle hub with an internal plug and an external skirt which wedgingly squeeze a tubular syringe adapter therebetween to permanently lock the needle to the adapter. The adapter is of a softer material (polypropylene) than the hub (polycarbonate) and includes longitudinal crush ribs that frictionally lock the adapter and hub together while providing a sterilizing gas vent into the adapter-hub joint.