Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.a.

Vectura Delivery Devices Limited

Covidien LP

Orange Personal Communications Services Limited

Alfred E. Tiefenbacher Gmbh & Co. Kg

David Gregory Ahern

Roger William Clarke

Christopher James Smith

Stephen William Eason

Quentin John Harmer

Simon James Smith

Matthew Neil Sarkar

Max Middleton

James Tibbatts

Sameer Shirgaonkar

Peter Alan Evans

Simon Burge

Ben Arlett

Emma Lesley Lye

John Pinon

Robin Craig Cocker

Tim Evans

Ewen Christie

Arron Danson

James Tibatts

Andreas Mehne

Margaret Crosthwaite

Simon Smith

Max William Middleton

A dry powder inhalation device is disclosed. In one optional aspect, the device includes a housing, a base plate, a receptacle for a medicament and a mouthpiece. The base plate is engageable with the housing to form a main space with a main air inlet. The mouthpiece includes an inner conduit connected to its outlet and is engageable with the base plate to fluidly connect the inner conduit to the receptacle. The receptacle is fluidly connected to the main space, so that upon inhalation by a user, air can be drawn through the main air inlet into the main space and onward through the receptacle into the inner conduit. The mouthpiece and the base plate form an auxiliary space with an auxiliary air inlet, wherein the auxiliary space is fluidly connected to the main space.

Dry powder inhaler with reproducible flow resistance

A surgical access device includes a body having a first member and a second member relatively movable between open and closed configurations. Each member is positionable within an opening in tissue to provide access to an interior space of a patient. Each member includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a leading end, and a trailing end. The top surfaces are positioned in close cooperative alignment when the first and second members are in the closed configuration. The trailing ends are positioned in close cooperative alignment when the first and second members are in the open configuration. In the open position, the first and second members define a passage therethrough to permit access to the interior space for passage of a surgical instrument therethrough.

Thoracic access port including foldable anchor

An inhaler is disclosed. It comprises a housing to receive a strip of blisters each having a puncturable lid and containing a dose of medicament for inhalation by a user, a mouthpiece through which a dose of medicament is inhaled by a user and, an actuator operable to sequentially move each blister into alignment with a blister piercing member. The actuator is also operable to cause the blister piercing element to puncture the lid of a blister such that, when a user inhales through the mouthpiece, an airflow through the blister is generated to entrain the dose contained therein and carry it out of the blister and via the mouthpiece into the user's airway.

Inhaler

An inhaler () is disclosed. It comprises a housing () to receive a strip () of blisters () each having a puncturable lid () and containing a dose of medicament for inhalation by a user, a mouthpiece through which a dose of medicament is inhaled by a user and, an actuator () operable to sequentially move each blister into alignment with a blister piercing member (). The actuator is also operable to cause the blister piercing element to puncture the lid of a blister such that, when a user inhales through the mouthpiece, an airflow through the blister is generated to entrain the dose contained therein and carry it but of the blister and via the mouthpiece into the user's airway.

A powder inhaler includes a container for storing powdered medicament. A metering member has a dosing recess and is moveable between a filling position in which the dosing recess is in alignment with an opening of the container, and an inhalation position in which it is in alignment with an inhalation channel. A mouthpiece is in communication with the inhalation channel for enabling inhalation of the dose of powdered medicament when in the inhalation position. A protective member provided between the metering member and the inhalation channel is moveable between a closed position in which the protective member covers the dosing recess, thereby preventing powdered medicament contained in the dosing recess from entering the inhalation channel, and an open position in which the protective member does not cover the dosing recess, thereby exposing the dosing recess to the inhalation channel for enabling inhalation of the dose of the powdered medicament.

Powder inhaler

Mobile terminal with video display

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Welney, United Kingdom

David Gregory Ahern