Syringe

摘要

There is provided an injector having a gasket held in excellent intimate contact with an inner wall surface of a barrel and shortened in overall length. A gasket 6 is joined to a mount base 10 disposed on a tip end of a plunger 5 and having a bendable portion 14 which bends toward an axis of the plunger 5 radially outwardly of the mount base 10. The gasket 6 is joined to the mount base 10 with a gap left for allowing the bendable portion 14 to bend toward the tip end of the plunger 5 when the gasket 6 slides toward an injection needle 2. The gasket 6 is made of a synthetic resin having an A-scale Shore hardness in the range from 20 to 70. The gasket 6 has a groove 16 defined therein radially outwardly of the mount base 10, and the bendable portion 14 comprises a portion of the gasket 6 disposed radially outwardly of the groove.