Patent 8721593 was granted and assigned to Owen Mumford Corporate on May, 2014 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An autoinjector is provided with a magnetically operated “injection complete” indicator. A moveable magnet (44) associated with the drive piston (38) is kept at one end of a recess by a soft iron keeper (46) until the drive piston reaches its formal position where the moveable magnet (44) is attracted to impact a magnet (48) on the housing to generate an audible click. Also described is a spring finger (52) that slips behind the rear edge of the syringe boot (50) temporarily to hold the end of the boot well clear of the housing to that it can be gripped for removal.