Medicament delivery device configured to produce wireless and audible outputs

Inventors

Edwards, Eric S. • Edwards, Evan T. • Licata, Mark J. • Meyers, Paul F. • Weinzierl, David A.

Assignees

EBAP Inc DBA STREAMLINE DESIGN • kaleo Inc

Abstract

An apparatus includes a simulated medicament delivery device and an electronic circuit system. The simulated medicament delivery device includes a housing, and is devoid of a medicament delivery mechanism that causes a medicament to be delivered. The electronic circuit system is coupled to the housing and includes an audible output device and a cover. The housing of the medicament delivery device and the cover of the electronic circuit system collectively define an acoustic enclosure. The audible output device is configured to be disposed within the acoustic enclosure.

Core Innovation

A medicament delivery device is provided that includes an electronic circuit system producing sensory outputs when the device is prepared and actuated for medicament delivery. In one described approach, a distal end portion of a medical injector is removed from within an outer case so that a protrusion changes position relative to the electronic circuit system, and the electronic circuit system produces a first output via a sensory output device in response to the protrusion being spaced apart from the electronic circuit system when the distal end portion is removed.

The device further includes moving an actuator relative to a housing from a first actuator position to a second actuator position, where the actuator activates an energy storage member to initiate delivery of a medicament and where the electronic circuit system produces a second output via the sensory output device in response to the moving actuator. The electronic circuit system further includes a network interface device that transmits a wireless signal to a remote device, where the wireless signal is associated with moving the actuator.

In another described approach, a medicament delivery assembly is configured with a first housing defining a first interior volume and a second interior volume, with a medicament container within the first interior volume configured to be coupled to a needle, and an energy storage member within the first housing configured to produce a force to initiate delivery of the medicament through the needle. An electronics assembly is formed separately as a second housing that mates with the first housing such that the electronic circuit system is disposed within the second interior volume, where the electronic circuit system includes a switch, a light output device, an audible output device, and a wireless network interface device, and is configured to produce an output via any one of the light output device, the audible output device, or the wireless network interface device when the switch is moved from a first state to a second state.

Claims Coverage

The independent claims cover two inventive features in the medicament delivery device and three inventive features in the medicament delivery assembly. The first set focuses on protrusion-position-triggered sensory output, actuator movement that initiates medicament delivery and triggers sensory output, and wireless signaling associated with actuator movement. The second set focuses on a separately formed electronics assembly with switch-controlled light, audible, and wireless outputs.

Overall, the independent claims cover a medicament injector method in which removal from an outer case changes a protrusion position relative to the electronic circuit system to trigger sensory output, followed by actuator movement that initiates medicament delivery via an energy storage member and transmits a wireless signal. The other independent claim covers a medicament delivery assembly with a separately formed electronics housing that uses switch state change to control light, audible, and wireless outputs.

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