Injection device and heating unit thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9554839-B2
Application number	US-201313945413-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 18, 2013
Priority date	Dec 7, 2012
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

Abstract

An injection device includes a housing, a plunger, and a heating unit. The plunger is slidably arranged within the housing thereby performing a plunging movement therein. The heating unit is disposed within the housing for generating a heat energy inside the housing such that a filling material inside the housing can be soften and be transformed into a movable filling material with viscosity by absorbing the heat energy from the heating unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An injection device, which comprises:
a housing;
a plunger, slidably arranged within the housing for enabling the same to perform a plunging movement therein; and
a heating unit, disposed within the housing while allowing a passage to be formed between the heating unit and an inner wall of the housing, and comprising:
a heating chamber, having a space formed therein by the enclosure of an inner wall thereof while being arranged boring through the plunger and within the housing so as to enable the passage to be formed between an outer wall of the heating chamber and the inner wall of the housing;
a light-guide element, disposed inside the space for guiding travelling of an electromagnetic wave; and
a light absorbing element, coupled to the light-guide element for allowing the same to receive the electromagnetic wave so as to generate a heat energy.

2. The injection device of claim 1 , wherein the passage is composed of a first channel and a second channel; and the housing is further composed of: a material supply section, arranged at a position corresponding to the first channel for providing a filling material; and an injection section, arranged at a position corresponding to the second channel.

3. The injection device of claim 2 , wherein the filling material is forced to move from the first channel into the second channel by the plunging movement of the plunger for positioning the filling material at a position corresponding to the light absorbing element and thus enabling the filling material to absorb the heat energy to be liquefied into a fluid capable of flowing out of the injection section through the first channel.

4. The injection device of claim 1 , wherein the light-guide element is substantially an optic fiber.

5. The injection device of claim 1 , wherein the light absorbing element is substantially a light absorbing material coated on an end of the inner wall of the heating chamber.

6. The injection device of claim 5 , wherein the light absorbing element is substantially a surface-treated metal layer.

7. The injection device of claim 1 , wherein the inner wall of the heating chamber is formed with an opening at an end thereof; and the light absorbing element is substantially a light absorbing chamber formed inside the heating chamber while being in communication with the heating chamber through the opening.

8. The injection device of claim 7 , wherein an inner wall surface of the light absorbing chamber is formed into a surface selected from the group consisting of: a rough surface and a smooth surface.

9. The injection device of claim 1 , further comprising:
an electromagnetic wave source, coupled to the light-guide element for providing the electromagnetic wave to the light-guide element;
a control unit, electrically coupled to the electromagnetic wave source for providing a control signal to the electromagnetic wave source so as to control generation of the electromagnetic wave; and
a temperature sensor, arranged at the housing and electrically coupled to the control unit, for sensing temperature of the housing and thus generating a sensing signal accordingly to be transmitted to the control unit.

10. The injection device of claim 9 , wherein the electromagnetic wave source is a source selected from the group consisting of: a laser source and a LED source.

11. The injection device of claim 1 , wherein the heating chamber is made of a material selected from the group consisting of: a titanium alloy and a stainless steel alloy.

12. The injection device of claim 1 , wherein the plunger is substantially a piston unit, and the plunging movement is substantially a displacement movement.

13. The injection device of claim 1 , wherein the plunger is substantially a screw rod unit, and the plunging movement is substantially a rotation movement.

Assignees

• Ind Tech Res Inst

Inventors

• Lin Ying-Tso
• Chan Chi-Feng
• Hu Chieh
• Liao Chun-Jen

Classifications

• H05B3/42

  non-flexible · CPC title

• A61B17/8836 Primary

  for heating, cooling or curing of bone cement or fluid fillers · CPC title

• A61B17/8822

  characterised by means facilitating expulsion of fluid from the introducer, e.g. a screw pump plunger, hydraulic force transmissions, application of vibrations or a vacuum · CPC title