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Vividose®

How it works

A seal you can see, and a mark that confirms it.

Vividose® is a dosing system: a colored plunger seal plus barrel markings that include fill indicators. When the seal’s color sits inside the indicator, the volume is confirmed.

Close view of an early prototype syringe barrel and colored plunger seal.
Close view of an early prototype. The colored seal is the surface a user aligns to the barrel marks.

  1. 01

    Connect and draw

    The dosing device — typically a syringe — connects to a vial, line, or reservoir. Retracting the plunger draws the agent into a transparent or semi-transparent barrel. A colored seal rides at the leading edge of the plunger. The preferred seal is fluorescent, so it reflects more light than a conventional black seal.

  2. 02

    Marks that include a target window

    The barrel carries contrasting markings. The patent disclosure describes black print: volume lines, numbers, and fill indicators. Indicators can be hollow shapes, such as circles, or pairs of lines. They are sized to the bevel of the seal.

  3. 03

    Align color inside the indicator

    The user sets the seal so its color is visible inside the fill indicator — color filling the circle, or sitting cleanly between the line pair. That confirms the drawn volume. One embodiment described in the disclosure lays a seal color over a printed indicator color and produces a third color at the correct alignment.

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    Deliver

    The agent is delivered through the needle, connector, or tube. The same reading applies at the bedside, in a clinic, or when someone is measuring a dose at home.

Side by side

The method in the patent disclosure is short: connect, retract the plunger, align the colored seal so it is visible within a fill indicator, then deliver the agent.

Conventional

Black on black

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The seal and the mark are the same color. The edge you are supposed to read disappears into the line.

Vividose

Color in the window

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The fluorescent seal fills the indicator. The target volume is a color you can see, not a guess at a black edge.

Illustrative diagram of the reading problem and the Vividose approach. Not a scale drawing and not a finished device.

Early prototype syringes with fluorescent pink and green plunger seals.
Early prototypes with fluorescent seals. Photographs from the project files, not a commercial package.

Configurations in the product materials

  • Seal colors marketed: fluorescent pink, green, orange, and yellow.
  • Sample seals described for 5 ml.
  • Disposable syringes described in 3, 5, or 10 cc, with a 1½-inch needle.

Those are the configurations written down for early samples. This site is not a catalog, and those sheets are not a current offer. Ask through the interest form for present terms.

Small early graphic of a syringe from the Vividose project files.

An early syringe graphic from the project files, kept at its original small size.

Described, not offered

The patent disclosure includes further embodiments. They explain the scope of the idea. They are not products you can order.

  • Seals with more than one bevel.
  • Glow-in-the-dark seals.
  • Fill indicators that create a third color when the seal color overlays a printed color.
  • A broader neon set, including red, purple, and blue, alongside the marketed pink, green, orange, and yellow.
  • Automated actuators that move the plunger.
Technology and IP