Owner Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Inventors Tangorra, James; Angel, Aimee B; Hunter, Ian W; Proctor, Laura L

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2002353855

PCT Number PCT/US02/33823

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/037405

Priority 60/399,489 29.07.02 US; 60/338,425 26.10.01 US

Filing date 22 October 2002

Wipo publication date 12 May 2003

Acceptance publication date 14 December 2006

A61B 5/05 (2006.01) Measuring for diagnostic purposes - Measuring for diagnosis by means of electric currents or magnetic fields

A61B 5/145 (2006.01) Measuring for diagnostic purposes - Measuring characteristics of blood , e.g. gas concentration, pH-value

A61B 5/15 (2006.01) Measuring for diagnostic purposes - Devices for taking samples of blood

A61B 5/151 (2006.01) Measuring for diagnostic purposes

A61B 5/157 (2006.01) Measuring for diagnostic purposes

A61M 5/32 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - Needles

A61M 37/00 (2006.01) Other apparatus for introducing media into the body

A61M 5/14 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - Infusion devices, e.g. infusing by gravity

A61M 5/142 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps

A61M 5/158 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way

A61M 5/42 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - having means for desensitising skin, for protruding skin to facilitate piercing, or for locating point where body is to be pierced

A61M 5/46 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - having means for controlling depth of insertion