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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1997
Michael Wayne Trull, Apex, NC (US);
Coeur Laboratories, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
An angiographic syringe and plunger therefor, having utility in a power-driven angiographic syringe injector apparatus comprising an axially extending drive shaft and a frustoconical-shaped driving head attached to the shaft. The plunger is constructed to engage the driving head, with a circumferentially extended array of circumferentially spaced-apart flexible resilient engagement members which compressively bear on the side and rear surfaces of the frustoconical driving head. The flexible resilient engagement members are radially inwardly offset from the edge of the plunger, to avoid contact with inner surfaces of the syringe barrel contamination of the interior volume of the syringe. The syringe is mounted on the injector apparatus by a face plate adapter assembly serving to position the flexible resilient engagement members for coupling to the driving head. Plunger and driving head elements are described which are interactive with a face plate adapter assembly to engage and disengage the plunger and driving head in relation to one another.