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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2005
Thomas F. Lilley, Jr., Simsbury, CT (US);
Sean J. Albert, Barrington, NH (US);
Dennis M. Bialecki, Oxford, CT (US);
David J. Goral, Brookfield, CT (US);
Thomas K. Sutton, West Simsbury, CT (US);
Thomas F. Lilley, Jr., Simsbury, CT (US);
Sean J. Albert, Barrington, NH (US);
Dennis M. Bialecki, Oxford, CT (US);
David J. Goral, Brookfield, CT (US);
Thomas K. Sutton, West Simsbury, CT (US);
Smiths Medical ASD, Inc., Rockland, MA (US);
Abstract
A needle guard includes a clip with a canting wall to grip the needle shaft and a distal wall to block the tip thereof, wherein the canting and distal walls may be interconnected by an angled strut so as to allow the canting wall to be tilted over center in a ready state, a spring member, such as a leaf spring, may have a portion extending past an edge of the strut to bias the clip to grip the needle shaft.