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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:
Apr. 30, 1991
Filed:
May. 14, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Son Le, San Francisco, CA (US);
Phillip Yang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604198 ; 604263 ;
Abstract
A needle connecting apparatus for connecting a needle to a syringe and for covering the needle for disposal includes a connector housing. A first mounting point on the connector housing mounts the housing to a syringe body. A second mounting point on the connector housing mounts base of a needle to the housing. A rigid needle cover is movably mounted to the connector housing for exposing a needle mounted to the connector housing when in a first position and for covering a needle mounted to the connector housing when in a second position.