Patent attributes
The invention relates to an auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament, comprisinga housing arranged to contain a syringe with a hollow needle and a stopper for sealing the syringe and displacing the medicament, the housing having a distal end and a proximal end with an orifice intended to be applied against an injection site, wherein the syringe is slidably arranged with respect to the housing,drive means capable of, upon activation:pushing the needle from a covered position inside the housing into an advanced position through the orifice and past the proximal end, andoperating the syringe to supply the dose of medicament, andactivating means arranged to lock the drive means in a loaded state prior to manual operation and capable of, upon manual operation, releasing the drive means for injection, characterized in that the drive means is at least one spring essentially transversally arranged with respect to a longitudinal axis of the syringe at least when in the loaded state.
