MEDICAMENT DELIVERY DEVICE

• Main Author: CARLSSON, Daniel
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 07.02.2024
• Subjects: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE

A medicament delivery device (1) for expelling medicament from a mechanically flexible medicament container (11), the medicament delivery device (1) comprising: a housing (3) having a proximal housing end, a distal housing end, and a central channel (3c) extending through the proximal housing end and towards the distal housing end, the central channel being configured to receive the medicament container (11), wherein the housing (3) has an inner surface provided with a first axial channel and a second axial channel arranged on opposite sides of the central channel, a drive member (21) arranged to move linearly towards the proximal end of the housing (3), a plurality of first segments (23a) arranged one after the other in the first axial channel, and a plurality of second segments (23b) arranged one after the other in the second axial channel, wherein the drive member (21) has a first leg (21a) and a second leg (21b) are configured to move a respective one of the first segments (23a) and the second segments (23b) in a proximal direction when the drive member (21) is moved linearly towards the proximal housing end, whereby at least one of the first segments (23a) and at least one of the second segment (23b) are moved radially towards each other into the central channel (3c) to thereby subject the medicament container (11) to oppositely directed radial forces.