公开(公告)号：US20240042126A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-08

申请号：US18160429

申请日：2023-01-27

Applicant: INSULET CORPORATION

Inventor： Soroush KAMRAVA ,  Kyle BREINGAN ,  Maureen MCCAFFREY ,  Jeffrey BARNES

IPC: A61M5/142

CPC classification number: A61M5/142 ,  A61M2005/14252

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a double reservoir configuration for a pumping mechanism for a drug delivery device wherein one reservoir is rigidly fixed to a housing of the device and the other reservoir moves linearly translates with respect to the fixed reservoir. To avoid having either the input fluid port or the output fluid port moves as the second reservoir linearly translates, one port is in fluid communication with the fixed reservoir and a second fluid port is in communication with the moving reservoir via a hollow tube supporting a static plunger disposed within the moving reservoir. This arrangement provides for the added benefit of allowing air trapped within either of the reservoirs to be almost completely removed as the pump mechanism is filled with the fluid.

公开(公告)号：US20240299645A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-12

申请号：US18600948

申请日：2024-03-11

Applicant: INSULET CORPORATION

Inventor： Ayden HENSON ,  Jeffrey BARNES ,  Lucas MCGAHREN

IPC: A61M5/142 ,  G16H20/17

CPC classification number: A61M5/14248 ,  G16H20/17 ,  A61M2210/083 ,  A61M2210/086 ,  A61M2210/1021

Abstract: Described herein are adhesive drug delivery application devices and related systems, methods, and kits useful for applying a medical device (such as a drug delivery device or a transcutaneous or subcutaneous sensor) to an adhesion site on the skin of a user. A medical device application system may include a needle cap, an adhesive platform, and a temporary backing. The temporary backing may, for example, include a first wing and a second wing. The temporary backing may also include a tab. In other examples, the adhesive platform may include a first bridge and a second bridge, a temporary loop, and/or a first sticker and a second sticker.

公开(公告)号：US20230117504A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US18047068

申请日：2022-10-17

Applicant: INSULET CORPORATION

Inventor： Soroush KAMRAVA ,  Steven CARDINALI ,  Jeffrey BARNES

IPC: A61M5/142 ,  F16H21/50 ,  F04B9/04 ,  A61M5/158

Abstract: A novel embodiment of a drive mechanism for use in a pump, for example, of the type that would be used in a wearable drug delivery system, comprises, a cylindrically-shaped slider element configured with a channel on a circumferential surface thereof defining one or more zig-zag-shaped tracks therethrough. One or more pegs are engaged within the tracks, such that a back and forth longitudinal motion of the slider element along a radial axis of the cylinder causes movement of the pegs along one of the tracks through the channel, thus providing a movement of the pegs around the circumference of the cylinder which imparts a rotational motion to a header element disposed co-axially with the slider. The header element is in turn connected to a gear train, for example, a planetary gear box, which is coupled to the pump via a linkage or other type of mechanism.

公开(公告)号：US20240091435A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-21

申请号：US18466217

申请日：2023-09-13

Applicant: INSULET CORPORATION

Inventor： Maureen MCCAFFREY ,  Soroush KAMRAVA ,  Steven CARDINALI ,  Jeffrey BARNES ,  Kyle BREINGAN ,  Lucas MCGAHREN ,  Daniel BARRETT

IPC: A61M5/145 ,  F04B17/00

CPC classification number: A61M5/1452 ,  F04B17/00 ,  F16H2025/2071

Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of clutching mechanisms applicable to a dual reservoir pumping mechanism for a drug delivery device, the clutching mechanisms serving to allow translation of one of the reservoirs during the filling process and thereafter connecting the reservoirs together such that one can be driven relative to the other one by means of a leadscrew or other driving mechanism.

公开(公告)号：US20240058543A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-22

申请号：US18451333

申请日：2023-08-17

Applicant: INSULET CORPORATION

Inventor： Lucas MCGAHREN ,  Jeffrey BARNES ,  Steven CARDINALI ,  Daniel ALLIS

IPC: A61M5/315 ,  A61M5/145

CPC classification number: A61M5/31528 ,  A61M5/1452

Abstract: A device for delivering fluid to a user may include a reservoir that holds the fluid and a plunger received in the reservoir. As the plunger is driven into the reservoir, the fluid is driven out; similarly, as the reservoir is filled, the plunger is driven out of the reservoir. The plunger may be moved into or out of the reservoir by the action of a lead screw. The lead screw may include multiple starts.

公开(公告)号：US20240033421A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US18362887

申请日：2023-07-31

Applicant: INSULET CORPORATION

Inventor： Jeffrey BARNES

IPC: A61M5/142

CPC classification number: A61M5/14248

Abstract: The exemplary embodiments provide thermal weld structures that help prevent tearing of the adhesive layer of an on-body medical device when subject to lateral forces. These thermal weld structures help reduce the tearing by providing sacrificial thermal weld structures that will absorb forces and then potentially fail to thereby diffuse some of the lateral forces. The sacrificial thermal weld structures may take different forms. For instance, the sacrificial thermal weld structures may be gradient thermal weld structures where the amount of material melted in the gradient thermal weld structures decreases as a gradient along a dimension of the structures, such as their length. In some alternative embodiments, the width of the gradient thermal weld structure may vary instead of the height, or in conjunction with the height. In other exemplary embodiments, the sacrificial thermal weld structures may be dot thermal weld structures.

公开(公告)号：US20230077167A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-09

申请号：US17930347

申请日：2022-09-07

Applicant: INSULET CORPORATION

Inventor： Soroush KAMRAVA ,  Daniel ALLIS ,  Jeffrey BARNES

IPC: A61M5/145 ,  A61M5/142

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to techniques, processes, devices or systems for pump devices. In one approach, a wearable drug delivery device, may include a reservoir configured to store a fluid, the reservoir comprising a housing including an outer wall defining an interior chamber, and a drive mechanism for driving the fluid from the reservoir. The drive mechanism may include a plunger received in the interior chamber of the reservoir, a leadscrew extending from the plunger, and a clutch mechanism threadably engaged with the leadscrew, wherein the clutch mechanism is configured to allow the leadscrew to pass through the clutch mechanism when disengaged and is configured to grip the leadscrew when engaged such that the clutch mechanism rotates to advance the leadscrew and the plunger into the reservoir.