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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2012
Frederic Perot, Saint-Paul-de-Varces, FR;
Guillaume Grunhut, Grenoble, FR;
Adrien Plouvier, Saint-Martin-d'Heres, FR;
Frederic Perot, Saint-Paul-de-Varces, FR;
Guillaume Grunhut, Grenoble, FR;
Adrien Plouvier, Saint-Martin-d'Heres, FR;
Becton Dickinson France, Le Pont de Claix, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a needle including: a needle hub having a needle with a distal tip; a ring for protecting the needle in one of a storage condition or end-of-use condition of the needle assembly; a foldable element for moving the protective ring; a biasing element for urging the foldable element from its folded configuration to an unfolded configuration; a retainer for maintaining the biasing element in an intermediate stressed state at least in the storage condition of the needle assembly; and a deactivating element for releasing said retainer at least at the end of the injection step. The invention also relates to an injection device including such a needle assembly and a container.