Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sensor device for a drug delivery device
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Application No.: US17181588Application Date: 2021-02-22
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Publication No.: US11813437B2Publication Date: 2023-11-14
- Inventor: Thomas Klemm , Dmitri Bogatirsky , Mihaly Gabli , Stefan Bohling
- Applicant: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
- Applicant Address: DE Frankfurt am Main
- Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
- Current Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Frankfurt am Main
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: EP 178750 2015.07.29
- Main IPC: G01C3/08
- IPC: G01C3/08 ; A61M5/24 ; G01D5/20 ; A61M5/315 ; A61M5/00

Abstract:
A sensor device to be attached to a drug delivery device includes an array of conducting elements each forming part of a respective resonant circuit and each operable to have a signal applied to it. The drug delivery device has a first movable element supporting a conductive region, which is configured to move along a path parallel to a longitudinal axis of the drug delivery device. When the sensor device is attached to the drug delivery device, the conducting elements are arranged such that each resonant circuit is operable to output a signal indicative of the proximity of the conductive region supported on the first moveable element to the respective conducting element of each resonant circuit. The sensor device includes circuitry to receive the signals output from the resonant circuit and, based on the received signals, determines information associated with a location along the path of the first movable element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210178075A1 SENSOR DEVICE FOR A DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE Public/Granted day:2021-06-17
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