Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a dental anesthetic injection device. The dental anesthetic injection device includes a laser generator, a pressure generator filled with a liquid for generating pressure, which expands due to a laser emitted by the laser generator, an anesthetic container which contains an anesthetic for dental use, a separation film disposed between the pressure generator and the anesthetic container and formed to be elastically deformable to transfer expansion energy of the pressure generator to the anesthetic container, and a replacement nozzle detachably coupled with the anesthetic container to be replaceable depending on an oral environment and configured to jet the anesthetic of the anesthetic container toward an oral cavity.
Abstract:
A needleless fluid injection system (100) including an injection console (102), an injection chamber in operative communication with the console, an injectate shaft (104) in operative communication with the console, which has an injection lumen extending from a proximal end to a distal end of the shaft, and at least one injection orifice extending through a wall of the injection lumen proximate the distal end of the shaft. The injection lumen can include a sealing cap (40) at its distal end.
Abstract:
A method for injecting a substance through a biological body surface includes providing a needle-free transdermal transport device configured to inject the substance through the surface. The substance is injected into the biological body with the transport device while a parameter of the injection is sensed and a servo-controller is used to dynamically adjust at least one injection characteristic based on the sensed parameter. The substance is injected for (i) a first time period during which a first portion of a volume of the substance is injected at a first injection pressure, and (ii) a second time period during which a remainder of the volume of the substance is injected at a second injection pressure. A viscosity of the substance may be determined, and a pressure calculated for injecting the substance based on the viscosity. The substance may be injected with the transport device by using the calculated pressure.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a needle-free injection device for delivering a medicament under pressure into an animal or human. The injection device includes an actuating device comprising: a gas tight chamber; a piston and rod assembly slidably received in the chamber and movable between a forward position and a rearward position; a gas charge in the chamber for urging the piston and rod assembly to the forward position; means for moving said piston and rod assembly against said gas charge into the rearward position; and a trigger for releasably retaining the piston and assembly in the rearward position. Also provided is a method and kit for using the device to administer a liquid through the skin of an animal or human.
Abstract:
A liquid medicine injection device have a two-way injection amount controller. A collapsible tube is expanded with liquid medicine and forcibly discharges the medicine without allowing the medicine to remain in the tube due to the pressure of the fully expanded tube, thus preventing waste of the expensive medicine. The device, via the two-way injection amount controller, normally injects a primarily controlled amount of medicine into a patent at a steady rate and selectively and temporarily allows confluent medicine to join the primarily controlled amount of medicine in accordance with a patient's condition without giving additional syringe pain to the patient.
Abstract:
A gas driven apparatus for accelerating particles coated with a genetic material into a target comprises a reservoir for releasably retaining a gas at a sufficiently high pressure to detach the particles from the surface of a sample cartridge and to carry the particles through the apparatus toward the target. When leaving the apparatus, the particles entrained in the gas stream pass through a substantially conical exit nozzle which causes the pattern of distribution of the particles to greatly expand. Methods for using the apparatus and for preparing the sample cartridges are also described.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are compositions of neurotoxins and methods of their use for the treatment of sleep disordered breathing. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method of treating sleep breathing disorders comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of Clostridia neurotoxin (CnT) or light chain thereof to a mammal in need thereof is disclosed.
Abstract:
A method for transferring a solid body across a surface of a biological body includes (i) applying an electrical input to a controllable electromagnetic actuator; (ii) producing with the electromagnetic actuator a mechanical force corresponding to the electrical input; and (iii) applying the mechanical force to a reservoir coupled at one end to a nozzle, the mechanical force producing a pressure within the reservoir, a magnitude of the pressure varying with the mechanical force and causing ejection of a fluid from the reservoir to drive the solid body into the biological body. A method for delivering a substance to a target body includes (i) positioning a needle-free injector proximate to a surface of the target body; (ii) injecting the substance into the target body; and (iii) while injecting, moving the needle-free injector along the surface, thereby sweeping the surface.
Abstract:
A needle free injector system and a method for delivering a formulation using this system are disclosed. The method comprises actuating a needle free injector to pressurize a liquid formulation and force the formulation through an orifice in a skin puncture phase followed by injection of the formulation during a delivery phase. The skin puncture phase is defined by a pressure profile vs. time curve after actuation which has a main pressure peak with a maximum pressure. The delivery phase occurs at a lower pressure than the maximum pressure of the main peak pressure. The device may have one or more orifices and pressurizing the formulation during the puncture phase and delivery phase to extrude the formulation through each orifice is structured so as to improve characteristics of needle free delivery.